HeyJaredsmall shifts and big messes (journals)
small shifts and big messes (journals). Often we write about transformations in retrospect, counting our insights. I'm right at the start/ in the middle. Thought I'd be raw about it.
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expectations of a creative life (opens the original)
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I stopped living a regular life in March 2025. If you were here then, you must remember: I exploded and threw everything in the bin. It’s not about that. I never assumed that, in not really working in an office for almost a year and holing up at my parents’ house in the leafiest town, I’d accidentally stepped into a really, really healthy and creative life. I realised it when I walked home from a quick visit to them this evening. That entire year, while full of feelings of grief, anger, wickedne
september is a season (opens the original)
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Today is the day I walk around with peace in my body. My whole weekend has been wiped out because of a severe cold, and apparently, I really needed that. September is my favourite season. It’s the inbetween, the phase nearing a phase, the layering of the softest hues. I cut off my hair to leave the weight of summer behind. Now I can walk to the forest with a light jumper on and no coat, and feel the sun on my flu flushed cheeks. Some kind of nut or acorn hit me in the bum below the trees, but it
getting the sting out (opens the original)
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I was stung by a wasp yesterday. I stood in the backyard of my partner’s partner’s partner’s dad holding a beer, when it suddenly flew away from me, angrily. It wasn’t stuck, or anything. It hadn’t been cornered into anything. It just wanted to sting me. In that moment, I felt giggly. The wasp wouldn’t leave me alone. It was trying to get into my hair, and the women and I ran indoors so it would stop chasing us. One wasp controlling three women. A discussion started. H told me the stinger was st
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