HeyJaredStolen Moments
A weekly newsletter on creativity, the arts, the creative process, personal narrative, and the art of living written by writer and writing coach Sebastian Matthews.
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Hunting the Shot (opens the original)
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Sorry, folks. As soon as I got home from our trip, I caught Covid. It took me 2 weeks to get fully back. So today, just to keep things moving, I will republish an early Stolen Moments post. I should be up and running by the weekend.Hunting the ShotIn a recent essay I quoted an opinion piece in the New York Times (“What a Blind Photographer Saw at the Paralympics”) written by the young photographer, Samantha Hurley:“As a child, I began using my phone to take pictures of things I had trouble seein
Yard Sale (opens the original)
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Ile D’Olonne Poems (opens the original)
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Ile D’Olonne Poems (opens the original)
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Amsterdam Postcards (opens the original)
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