HeyJaredThe Rest is Moonshine
At least thrice weekly essays on recovery, addiction, adoption or whatever else comes out of my fingertips
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The Dead Man’s Cup On prayer, coffee and accidental holiness (opens the original)
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For a non-religious agnostic, I write about spiritual matters a lot. As I’ve said before, I pray about 47 times a day, and always the same prayer, “Thank you, God.” This prayer is uttered, internally or externally, with no concern about whether there is any receiver for the message. Expressing gratitude seems to make my life more content, more serene and happier, so I do it with the same attitude I eat bananas—they do me no harm and seem to prevent leg cramps. Could it be prayer as a form of spi
"Bob Slocum is Just Like You" (opens the original)
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When I was 15, I read Joseph Heller’s Something Happened, then handed it to my mother, who consumed books the way my friends and I went through cheap Mexican marijuana. I’d loved the book and it felt like real live adult fiction.She read it. She seemed to enjoy it. Everything appeared to have gone according to plan. Then she told me she knew why I liked it.“Bob Slocum is just like you.”My literary tastes run to outliers. Of course, my life has a similar bent so this may not be a shock. For insta
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