HeyJaredShangrilogs
High altitude and high hopes in a town of 180 people (and 51 dogs.)
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Cabin Notes: Saying no to momentum (opens the original)
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Last year, in what I can only describe as a manic episode of new motherhood, I built an entire course load called The Rewilding. I had a baby, lost my former relationship to time, and in that strange postpartum expansion decided to build an entire curriculum about intuition, attention, ritual, self-trust, seasonality—whatever else I was trying to understand about being alive. Then I taught them.The Rewilding became a real thing! Seasonal practices, workshops, a winter session, a spring workbook,
How to teach superstition - #222 (opens the original)
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We were ambling through the tall grasses near the slope to the beaver ponds, when the child spotted a ladybug.“Nice find. They’re good luck, Woodsy.”Ladybugs have been good luck all my life. They’re up there with rabbit feet and four leaf clovers, horseshoes and waving cats. For a ladybug to cross your path, to land on you, is auspicious. To come across a deer in the wood, to have a magpie shit on you, to find yourself just on the other side of a mudslide. Lucky, lucky girl.I’ve always said I wa
A year later, here’s which questions still work (opens the original)
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One year ago, I asked myself (and you) a set of questions to ensure a better winter and spring ahead.I have always treated fall as more “life reset” than a mere change in leaf color. That crispness arrives like someone left the refrigerator open, and my spine straightens. New tabs, new ideas, and I’m sweater-clad ready to identify the exact habits, projects, routines, ambitions, and psychological debris I need to shake from my branches in order to become a whole new tree. The outside world is dr
Did I manifest this? An investigation. - #221 (opens the original)
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I wanted a black cat. This should have been a fairly easy problem to solve. There are always black cats, because black cats suffer lower adoption rates. It felt like the shelters surrounding us across the Western Slope were filling with them. I saw them constantly on Instagram, tiny shadows with yellow eyes, elegant adult cats sitting in rescue kennels waiting for someone to understand their particular appeal. But I couldn’t just go to a shelter and choose a cat because my black cat was a manife
A log cabin in Shangri-La - #220 (opens the original)
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Welcome to Growing Conditions, a summer series of letters to the places I used to live. Each week, I’m writing a letter—sent in the mail and posted here—to an address that grew me. We’re home.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zqw5!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5ca3057d-3933-4100-b480-6ac1255
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