HeyJaredStill Going: Notes from a life in progress
Personal essays on desire, creativity, travel and the view from 70.
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Music update (opens the original)
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My Last Days of Saigon (for now) (opens the original)
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“Answergirl” Redux (opens the original)
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My 2002 Burning Man was The One. I’ve had a number of good ones, and a couple of bad, but 2002 was the year that I became…well…what did I become? Whatever I am, Burning Man was a part of forming me. 2002 was the year I got my playa name, Decibel (dB, get it?) and the year that the deep, profound magic of Burning Man became what I needed, became central to my life for the next 23 years. And despite not having gone this year, it still is. 2002 was the year that I realized that I could die right th
A Year Without a Burn (opens the original)
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Notes from a Hermitage (opens the original)
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