HeyJaredThe Becoming Journal
Musings on becoming and learning to live from the body and not just the mind
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my life is as generous as a tree (opens the original)
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The plane was cold. I had my scarf and my blanket and my notebook and a lot of feelings I had not finished having yet. We had just resolved a whole parking situation I won’t even get into, and my body was still carrying the residue of it, that low hum of anxiety that doesn’t fully leave even after the thing is over. But somewhere above the clouds I got calm. The sun was setting as we climbed, the clouds turning gold at the edges, pink bleeding into purple, the ground disappearing beneath me unti
by their fruit (opens the original)
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Let me introduce myself.I realized recently that I kind of just jumped in medias res on here (so theatre kid coded even though I wasn’t one). I started writing these essays and let y’all meet me in the middle of whatever spiral, revelation, flirtation, grief, or spiritual inconvenience was happening that week, but I don’t know if I have actually said: hi, my name is Delanyo Mensah and I’m a lot of things that were never supposed to fit comfortably in one body.<p clas
fine is not the same as mine (opens the original)
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I was dancing with my eyes closed on my panopticon balcony, Eternal by Talibah Safiya seeping through my opened door, feeling the wind twirl on my skin, and for a second I felt free.At that moment it didn’t matter that nothing about my balcony was free. It faces directly into a courtyard where everybody can see everybody, all of us stacked in our little units pretending not to watch each other live. I was out there with my eyes closed, trying to steal a little aliveness from a place that does no
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