HeyJaredScattered Crumbs and Tangled Tales
An Anthropologist’s Fieldnotes from Everyday Life in Europe and Africa
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Of Stone Roses and Black Crows (opens the original)
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I can’t say I always loved cemeteries. Not as much as some people I knew. As a child, I would accompany my mother and father to their respective family graves at the Ljubljana cemetery. We’d replace old candles and flowers, remove weeds, and check if any of the plants needed more soil or water. It is common for Slovenes to visit their family graves on a weekly or monthly basis. For many young people in the 70s and 80s, possibly into the early 90s, this was a chore, not something we were keen on
These Arvon Days, You'll Remember (opens the original)
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At the end of July I spent 5 days at a writing course in rural Shropshire, at The Hurst, former home of the British playwright John F. Osborne1, now an Arvon run home for literary workshops and residences. I had signed up for this course earlier in the year in an attempt to take myself more seriously as a writer, after having done a number of writing challenges and mini courses on and off Substack, where I learned lots but still felt like I needed a more serious learning experience and ex
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