HeyJaredStone and Salt: Notes from the Great Southern
I write about connection to place, local stories, and living attentively, through essays and short stories.
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Apparently, I needed to take my own advice. (opens the original)
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For the past few weeks, Stone and Salt has been quiet. There was no grand decision to take a break from writing, no carefully planned sabbatical from Substack. I simply stopped getting to it.Each week I thought, I’ll write something at the weekend, and then the weekend arrived and somehow I didn’t. There were things happening with the house, people to see, school things still going around in my head and, sometimes, I simply didn’t feel like doing very much at all. Somewhere along the way Sunday
One Wild and Precious Life (opens the original)
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When a House (Almost) Begins to Feel Like a Home (opens the original)
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There is a roof on our house now.There are walls too, of course, and increasingly recognisable rooms. I can stand where the kitchen will be, walk through what will eventually be our bedroom, and look through openings that will soon contain windows and doors.It is still very obviously a building site. There is dust and timber and scaffolding and all the practical evidence of construction.But something has changed.For a long time, our house existed mostly on paper. It was measurements and floor pl
When I Needed My Own Advice (opens the original)
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Begin where you are (opens the original)
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A little while ago, I wrote about what I called living in the almost.I borrowed the image from the Greek myth of Tantalus, forever reaching for fruit that remained just beyond his grasp and water that disappeared whenever he bent to drink. It struck me then that many of us live in much the same way. We spend our days reaching for
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