HeyJaredproof of living
Proof of Living is a personal field journal of aliveness, informed by grief and written from my own lived experience.
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NINE Years of Sobriety Time Capsule/Nostalgia-fest (opens the original)
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First of all, I am still fresh off seeing Robyn a few weeks ago and am pleased to announce that at 9 years sober I may actually have a higher power now. There is really something to be said about dancing wildly in a stadium of 20,000 homosexuals! When Body Talk came out in 2010, I was getting into the not-great relationship that would become my first marriage and drinking everyday at my retail job, listening to the CD (ahem) on repeat. Experiencing those songs live, from the vantage point of the
greeting the bear (opens the original)
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hello everyone, happy September somehow? It never fails, I’m always surprised when this time of year brings the first goldenrod blooms to signal the arrival of late summer. Time always goes too fast in the bright months, doesn’t it? The days are long and I always wind up being a little frivolous with so much sunlight. Then the goldenrod burst into the world, and reminds me to slow down and to notice. That I am never, ever too late to be right here, right now. I’m always right on time, and I have
before we knew (opens the original)
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hello friends, We’re in July somehow because time is weird and wild. It’s a foundational month for my family, containing both my (fur) son’s birthday and also the day, so many years ago, that my partner and I realized we were in love with each other. So this is a post about love. Subscribe nowShare proof of li
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