HeyJaredthe etcetera
a weekly newsletter exploring the etceteras of life—things i’ve been thinking about but haven’t been able to talk about
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Enough is a perfectly ripe peach (opens the original)
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Sometimes the perfect day has nothing special about it except the sky looks extra blue and your eyes are a little more open. Sometimes your life goal is just to make a great dinner with friends and be too tired the next day because you didn’t want it to be over. Good days are the produce guy at the Wochenmarkt handing you a slice of salted avocado after you bought a bag of fruit, letting someone else a plant your tomatoes because she wants to feel the dirt in her hands, a double hug goodbye, a s
Walking into the end of summer (opens the original)
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Exhale. Summer is closing. There will be a few more tomato harvests. Get the last of the peaches. Roast the corn. Indulge in the explosive juices. They will soon be replaced by starchier, sturdier counterparts.Exhale. Walk in the evening sun, admiring the way the light slices through the trees. You haven’t seen such a slant in a few months. It will soon be gone, replaced by more darkness than you can currently imagine. But when you arrive, it will feel just as normal as the unending sunlight. Fo
The immutable truth (opens the original)
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I think about holding hands. We rarely hold hands the normal way, which feels right, given this isn’t “normal.” Two fingers holding onto two fingers, usually the first two, sometimes the pinky and ring finger. The gesture struck as distant at first, as if the whole hand was too much commitment. But now I see the two fingers hooked into mine as insistent. Saying, look, this is how we do things. This is us according to us, not them. Holy.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://s
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