HeyJaredSacred Gestures
Tending seeds of an initiated culture; essays and poetry orbiting around rites of passage, ritual, myth, animism, nature connection, European ancestry, grief, and reverence.
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Why Our Ancestors Kept Old Stories Alive (opens the original)
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On Turning 45 (Hello, River) (poem) (opens the original)
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This is Not a Rite of Passage (opens the original)
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South Walk (poem) (opens the original)
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Becoming Hollow, You Might Become Full (opens the original)
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