HeyJaredThe Art Of from Sam Rueter
An ongoing work-in-progress through all dualities of life: heartbreak, loss, family, healing, expression, friendship, politics, love... and how our bodies' seem to carry each one of them
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at 35, I have none of the things I thought I wanted (opens the original)
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last month, I returned home from a 10 day backpacking trip through the French, Swiss and Italian Alps with my best friend and my 62-year-old dad. I returned home to my boyfriends and animals, unpacking my smelly trekking clothes before heading back into the city, to work on the painting commissions lined up in my studio. there are no sticky finger prints on the doorways, no cups of snacks or children’s toys found around my 800-sqft apartment. two weeks later, I head out to Utah for the week to h
the convenient villain: Lindsay Clancy and america's favorite story (opens the original)
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The Lindsay Clancy case is heated, because it forces us to reckon with the deeply uncomfortable ways we perceive women, motherhood, and mental illness. It’s also a giant, festering wound for the misogyny embedded in our systems— like our justice system and media landscape— but also, in the way we assume things as fact… depending on who declares them. I went into this case interested in how, as country, we would reckon with our failing mental health systems and the lack of social security for ove
luna, and the beginning of everything (opens the original)
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Ten years ago this summer, I packed everything I owned and carefully stacked it in our Uhaul with my then- fiancé.. driving 15 hours to the Carolina coast. What called us there was simple— sunshine. a change of pace. Neither of us had secured jobs yet, though I had several teaching position interviews lined up with local school districts. We had a little bit of money saved to get us started with our new home on the Charleston shore, with a wedding to plan and a future ahead of us.Ten years ago,
stop telling me how to optimize my life, I'm burnt out (opens the original)
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three weeks ago I stepped away from the marketing responsibilities of my two businesses and, like the rebel of all rebels, deleted instagram from my phone. knowing that it could only be a short time before I was back to my usual responsibilities, I spent the last three weeks doing things that humans do:actually cooking my food, painting without the interruption of recording a 10 second video, reading books and articles with the brain power to actually digest, having my full attention with friend
you are allowed to want more for your art and your life: (opens the original)
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Hello fellow artists, creatives and magical beings! We are here, in our third rendition of this new series: where each Sunday I welcome you to a short yap session…specifically designed to hype you up in your creative process and hone in on your vision for your life. None of these are ever scripted… it’s just thoughts that are relevant in my own life, and in turn, hopefully can help someone else too!There will be endless discussion on the honest look of all things creative process, what it means
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