HeyJaredthe suburban wilderness
I'm a neurodivergent, leftist suburban mom (oxymoron, I know) writing about working, parenting, and living well enough while navigating capitalism and the climate crisis. Thinking about post-capitalist futures, always.
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The comfort of a good mess (opens the original)
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I recently saw someone post about how this is the time of year native gardeners don’t want to talk about. Most of the plants have gone to seed, many are dying back, turning brown and drooping. If you garden for wildlife, as I do, you don’t remove the dead things. To make matters worse, it’s also spider season. Now, I’d argue that the intricate, sprawling webs of an orb weaver are a sight to behold, and the soft, cloud-like funnel webs of a grass spider are the arachnid answer to cozy season. But
Letting go and holding on (opens the original)
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I unintentionally took a bit of a break from posting here these past few weeks. The end of summer and start of the school year have been predictably chaotic. But truthfully, I haven’t been able to figure out what to write here recently. I don’t know how to respond to the events of the moment - huge storms and extended power outages in poor, Black cities, violent floods slash landslides slash glaciers collapsing and the destruction of villages in the blink of an eye, ICE going on a spending spree
A perfect day during death season (opens the original)
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What do we do now? (opens the original)
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The rate at which the world has begun to burn, both literally and metaphorically, is dizzying. Even for someone like me, who has anticipated and confronted the reality of climate chaos, political and economic corruption, the erosion of institutions, and social instability, this summer has felt like a lot. I have a harder and harder time looking to the future and dreaming of anything other than survival.Will I ever publish a book? Will AI and the profit motive simply destroy literature? Will I ev
Smoke and mirrors and small gifts (opens the original)
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