HeyJaredThe Charm
Essays, poems, and letters. All words written recreationally on the vulnerability of caring and the constant of becoming.
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Helen of Troy & Penelope: Tell Her I’m Sorry...For Everything That Has Happened in My Name. (opens the original)
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Helen to Telemechus: “Give my greetings to your mother. Tell her I’m sorry. I’m sorry for Troy, and for everything that has happened in my name.”Christopher Nolan’s the Odyssey has had commentary on it before it even released in theaters, but it’s not the discussion of Nolan’s star-studded cast or the adherence to the source text that caught my attention enough to pen a piece on it.T
A Know It All Gets Trapped in The Ambering of a Moment (opens the original)
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It is a point of immense pride to be knowledgeable about a great deal of things that go on in the world and have gone on in the world and will continue to go on in the world. I remember every person I’ve ever been in class with (to be fair, small town North Carolina made it easy) and whenever I bring up a past conversation to a friend or call back to a random person we met years ago in a different city than the one we live in now — I’m met with wide eyes and the same old question “How do you rem
A Case of the Reds (opens the original)
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When one feels very deeply – to the point of puckering into myself – there come times where I feel like half of me lives on one side while the other half exists at the other, forever tilting on an opposite axis spinning in different directions, jumping back and forth from one end of an extreme to the other and it doesn’t really make sense until I come out the other side of it, confused and annoyed looking back at the twist I contorted myself into only to unravel out of it.There is no dignity to
From the Bar Stool 001: Eavesdropping on Couples & the Risk of Connection (opens the original)
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Whenever I’m out at the bar perched in thought at the edge of my stool as I rotate between my drink and my fries and my writing journal — doing absolutely nothing to flirt with the shaggy-haired bartender I have a slight crush on — I like to give into the pleasure of eavesdropping on the conversations around me. I’d like to say there’s a kind of knack for listening in on other people, but if you’ve got decent hearing and somewhat of a poker face you can really get away with anything. But if you’
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