HeyJaredThe Inside of My Brain
An antidote to the curated perfection of people’s outsides, I’ll let you peer inside. Join me in looking for 3 real things, good things, each day.
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Best Things Today: 9/30/26 (opens the original)
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Best Things Today:September 30, 20261. Got to be with my sister on her birthday! ❤ Not a usual occurrence. Isn’t that the funny thing? That for so much of our childhoods we share birthday events with our siblings (pretty neat trick in a family of 5 kids, there were chances of birthday cakes in MANY months of the year!) but by the time we’re adults unless circumstances bring us together or we make specific attempts to collect for birthdays, its much less common to be with a sibling on their birth
Best Things Today: 9/29/26 (opens the original)
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Best Things Today:September 29, 20261. Had a leisurely day wherein I got to take my sister-in-law to my sister’s house where chihuahua obsessed sister-in-law could obsess over sister’s chihuahua foster who is like…the size of a taco. 😂 And while there I hung up a neat little spinny sparkly thing my mom got for my sister. As you can see from this photo, I was assisted in this task by one (1) regulation cat.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!
Best Things Today: 9/28/26 (opens the original)
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Best Things Today:September 28, 20261. Before I left this morning, I saw the squirrel at the patio door and paused for a sec to look at it (it had previously been on that top step establishing eye contact, which is bizarre and fantastic.)<img alt="" c
Best Things Today: 9/27/26 (opens the original)
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Best Things Today:September 27, 20261. I have this sense that my emotions are right under the surface of everything right now, just riiiiiight there barely visible but kinda visible, this sense of walking around with the thinnest skin, the skin so easy to puncture that surely I’m mostly walking around with scabs and wounds trying to make more scabs. There’s a saying in our writing community, it goes something like “write from the scar, not the festering wound.” I mean. That paints a word picture
Best Things Today: 9/26/26 (opens the original)
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Best Things Today:September 26, 20261. Still harvesting tomatoes, still picking dahlias, still some basil on the plants, still some peppers out there ripening. The peppers in the dehydrator are NOT DRY YET, omg. The whole garage smells like hot peppers. I’m super glad I put the machine out there. Hoping it finishes soon so I can see how long it takes to dry herbs (anyone have any guidelines? I have temps I can set up to about 155 I think, am figuring maybe 2-3 hours? For soft leaved herbs like b
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