HeyJaredThe Creative Aid Society
Using our human creativity to remake the world. Researched writing and photos from encounters with my ancestors. Occasional dispatches from Baltimore.
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becoming cool (opens the original)
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Marc was away for several days this past week. His homecoming here, though he has lived here for two years and four months, is like that of a fisherman returning from the sea every damn time. I can’t help it, we are each one another’s person, and we spent so long apart before we came back together. Three whole decades. Too long. I tend to want to take him inside and examine him and feed him coffee and tell him stories when he arrives home. To make him at home again. We’re dumb romantics. Sue us.
C3 (opens the original)
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A few years ago, I was working for an employer where the environment was so hostile I sometimes had to duck into a bathroom stall to catch my breath after having had my integrity and experience openly doubted by a peer in a full-court staff session. I was also in personal crisis during that time, having separated from my partner and husband of 22 years. Into the midst of all of this came a literal pain in my neck and right shoulder, so sharp and scary I knew I had to act to get treatment. The ph
throw me into the melted glacier (opens the original)
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Next week, I’ll have some pre-High Holy Days reflections to share with y’all. But mid-August in Lake Michigan is, as expected, always a good idea. I love the sea, but these sparkling lakes are home for this Midwestern lass. 💖<img alt="" class="s
these wild ponies were owned once (opens the original)
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It’s funny how, in the inescapable circular logic of capitalism, occupation eventually confers ownership. This is why they’re spending so much to deport you, my immigrant friends and neighbors. Within two generations, if they let you stay, you’ll run the place. Consider the wild ponies. <div class="subscription-widge
the first heart attack of my grandfather (opens the original)
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I have been trying to read more about the Stalin regime’s repression and ethnocide of the Soviet Jews after 1948, and it’s so grim I can barely get through a page without experiencing a mounting sense of anxious horror. The book is Out of the Red Shadows, in which historian Gennady Kostyrchenko chronicles the systematic and methodical events, trials, and political machinations that led to the executions and brutal life imprisonment of dozens of Soviet Jewish writers. Stalin’s atrocity against So
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