HeyJaredThe Ocean Front
"some things are probably better kept to myself. But some scared part of me still tells everything, as if that could help." -team dresch
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when a flower grows wild, it can always survive (opens the original)
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“Hierarchies try to convince us that all power and well-being come from the outside, that our self-esteem depends on obedience and measuring up to their requirements, but it’s interesting that even the most totalitarian cultures have never been able to convince everyone. There have always been rebels and visionaries who persisted in believing that each person has a center of power and wisdom within, whether it’s called the soul or the authentic self, Atman or the spirit. […] That’s why a storyte
life in the night, the end of summer (opens the original)
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today i was at the main library (going to the library in the middle of the day on a weekday is one of life’s great luxuries, especially if you like weirdos, especially if 8-5 M-F stability eschews you) and an old guy called out, “i like those tattoos. i see some pattern recognition in there” and i could tell if i let him he would talk at me for like half an hour and he was probably very interesting but all of these years of social work and therapy have left me wary of my fellow humans. i wish i
what we make of cigarettes, garbage, & ruins. (opens the original)
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it was exactly one week ago today, hot and sunny and sitting on a hillside in the university neighborhood with J. we had just finished a very fancy dinner at an outdoor table in the blazing sun, and we were sitting on a patch of shady grass across the street, smoking my second-to-last cigarette in my pack. we were sharing it. she hasn’t really started smoking again, not really, and neither have i. i didn’t want to buy another pack and i also didn’t want to give away my last smoke either, and she
i promised myself that if the bus had working wifi, i would write another newsletter (opens the original)
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hello, readers! i’m live on the scene of a trailways bus (which bought the megabus, and kept its website, but retained nothing else), on westbound route 80. i went to NYC and its suburbs for four and a half glorious days. i haven’t taken any time off work since january, and i am self-employed and to be honest, i don’t work very hard most of the time. but, my job and my life can be very emotionally exhausting. i was, as we say around my house when one’s tone of voice gets snappy and one’s frustra
another hot week in pittsburgh (opens the original)
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