HeyJaredThe Creative Year
The Creative Year is a place for personal essays, book reviews, and all my musings as I navigate through my personal creative year.
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The Cornell rapists are starting to lose their jobs. They should lose much more. (opens the original)
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Any rape survivor knows, it’s an act that will forever change your life. It’s not just the act itself, but the way your life rearranges in response, the way people fail to understand, and the way the system is designed to protect the rapist, not the victim. Many survivors go on to see their rapists live unpunished, unscathed lives, while we’re left to pick up the pieces of our own.My rape is the single most before and after moment of my life. No decision, no trauma, no event, has altered it more
I’m in my first healthy relationship (opens the original)
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The Great Art of Belonging to Yourself (opens the original)
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Last year I sat across from a friend and I asked the question that came from a deep well of lifelong loneliness.After my parents are gone….. Who will I belong to?I’m single, childless, and my parents are aging. I began to imagine myself slipping through the invisible cracks of life, belonging to no one, anchored by nothing (very depressing stuff.)I had just moved back home to NY and my loneliness was louder than ever as I found myself in a season of transition.On the surface, I have hobbies that
Summer at 4 AM (opens the original)
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My alarm goes off at 4:15 AM. It’s totally still and endlessly silent. It’s too early for pretense or agenda.It’s possibly the one time I’m not in a rush.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal"
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