HeyJaredOn the Verge
The world is broken. The world is beautiful. And I am trying to make sense of it.
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Yard Work (opens the original)
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It’s a beautiful fall day, and I am outside doing yard work. A row of cedar trees in front of our house needs pruning, the branches twisted and bunched up in a way that is quickly driving me crazy. It takes hours over several days to cut out all of the dead bits and pieces, and then I have to break it down further to cram it into our car and haul it away. Meanwhile, I am listening to an audiobook called The Wreck.</
Raspberry Picking (opens the original)
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Every day I go out into the field at a nearby farm to pick raspberries, and every day, there are more raspberries than I can pick. I walk between the rows, grabbing the ripest ones closest to me, eating one berry for every three or four that I toss into my basket. Bees buzz around my hands, but I’m not afraid of them. Should I be afraid of them? Are you allergic? A young friend asks me. She’s visiting this week, up in our neck of the woods for a string of college visits, and I’m along for the ri
Still Life with Banana (opens the original)
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All of the news this weekend is about AI accelerating and trying to kill humanity, but meanwhile, I am at a destination wedding in Maine where you can barely pick up a phone signal. The drive here was through a part of the country where I’d never been, on a ferry across Lake Champlain, and through the Green Mountains of Vermont, the White Mountains of New Hampshire. We kept losing our GPS signal. Can they find us if we can’t find them? I bought a paper map at a gas station. I had it splayed out
Teapot Trail (opens the original)
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The day was off to a bad start. I made coffee, and immediately spilled the full cup, drenching the couch, a throw pillow, books and loose papers. I read too much news and felt sick. Collapsing glaciers and heat domes and rising measles cases. A kid in Ohio who died by suicide. He was an honor student. Haitian, and recently told to self-deport or wear an ankle monitor. Someone commented online, Good. Now we don’t have to pay for his flight back to where he came from. I shut down the news and forc
Six Things I Learned in Six Weeks (opens the original)
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How dark it gets in the woods at night, and conversely, the brightness of the moon. The varying greens of the Green Mountains, sometimes gray, sometimes bright blue. The lake surface, smooth as glass, or choppy, the waves pushing toward shore, the white frothy lines that locals whisper might be a sea monster, and no matter how hard I try, I can’t capture any of this in a photo. The smallness of the town and all of the history, everyone seeming to know each other going back generations. The names
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