HeyJaredThe Magic Hour
Essays and weekly card readings on finding magic in the mundane. A place to be human, together.
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Great News (opens the original)
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What did you want to be when you grew up?A veterinarian? A firefighter? An astronaut? A teacher?Perhaps you were one of those avant-garde kids who dreamt of being a dinosaur or a giraffe or the color blue. At the time, they seemed misguided — you can’t change species and dinosaurs are extinct, did no one tell them? — but now I think they had the right idea. They were aiming for an essence, a vision free of societal pressure or constraint. They were voicing their truth.My first dream was to be a
Don’t Worry, Be Cringey (opens the original)
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There are pumpkins everywhere and I want to be mad about it. To be clear, I have seen zero honest-to-God, grown-on-a-vine, cousin-of-the-gourd pumpkins — it’s still too early in the season for those. Yet for weeks, I’ve been confronted with an endless parade of decorative proxies. Emblematic pumpkins. Pumpkins a la spice.When they first made their appearance — in early July — I was unamused. I felt a flood of righteous anger, over rampant consumerism and the dissonance of experiencing 2-3 season
Low Is Where We Meet the Earth (opens the original)
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Some months back, I devised a personal challenge to coax me out of my routine.I’d grown stressed and stagnant, caught on a hamster wheel of my own devising. My income was down, as was my morale. My creativity was nonexistent. My internal voice was less than supportive. Something (everything?) needed to change.At first, the project felt energizing. I loved reading and researching, submerging myself in big ideas and weekly challenges. But what’s that old saying — if you go digging, you’ll find dir
Cookies for the End of the World (opens the original)
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How are you today?In this corner of the universe, we’ve got air laced with bacteria, lettuce harboring parasites, and skies like a dystopian campfire. And that’s just this week. Life feels increasingly like cosplaying The Emperor’s New Clothes, but the emperor lives inside my phone and is invariably trying to sell something.On the personal front, I’ve b… Read more
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