HeyJaredTea and Tides
Thoughts on my life, island life, community, resilience, and the effort of living slowly
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Does anyone really see who you are? (opens the original)
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Does anyone really see who you are?How you feel in your essence, and it looks nothing like the body it walks around in.What do I see in the mirror?I recognise that body, those eyes, the hair. The way the resting shape of my mouth isn’t pleasing to me.I have to look really carefully into my own eyes to see the party going on at the back. To see the different versions that exist beyond the reflection.Sometimes.Occasionally I look in the mirror and the reflection merges with what’s inside, and I fe
An informal trip to the dentist (opens the original)
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You can listen to this, if you want.Chapter oneA slow, sunny ferry trip to the mainland. I am sitting outside. The engine on our replacement ferry is loud, the noise is such that it’s hard to block out, but the sunshine bright enough to need the sunglasses I don’t have and the view makes up for it.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eXAH!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fim
Can we bring school to the children? (opens the original)
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During Covid we had to homeschool – it was messy, unstructured but also gave a degree of freedom into what and how you learned. In theory I loved this idea but in practice it was no fun because my daughter didn’t like it at all, it created a lot of anxiety and conflict, and it became apparent when we got to the crux of it that she really needed the structure that school provided. Even being in the actual building would have helped to create more calm for her.She was in primary 6 then with anothe
Substack as Therapy? (opens the original)
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I joined Substack expecting newsletters, essays and meeting some interesting people, what I didn’t expect was the raw emotion in some of the things I read.Subscribe nowYesterday I read an article that completely floored me - occasionally you read something and it just hits you right in the pit of your stomach and it just changes everything.I don’t really know how to describe it. I can’t put into words
Rum Diaries no.4 (opens the original)
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Today is Sunday. I’m looking out the window and it looks like it’s blowing a gale, though strangely it’s tropically warm outside. I opened the door expecting a huge blast of cold air and instead got enveloped in what felt like a warm blanket. Very odd indeed.So: no ferry today because it’s too windy. No ferry yesterday because it was broken. No ferry on Friday because it was too windy. And we don’t get one on Thursdays anyway.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn
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