HeyJaredThe View from My Window
The View from My Window is about finding hope in uncertain times through the intersection of nature, spirituality, and community.
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What I remember (opens the original)
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The Beginning, August 31, 2026During Jacque’s silent writing session in A Writing Room, our conversation turned September 11, 2001. After hearing the experiences of our East Coast writers, one writer asked if the experiences of Southern California mothers mattered. It was a question I had been asking myself from Northern California.Karen came up with the idea to publish an anthology of our memories. She gave us six days to submit our essays. I wrote 3000 words, and on the day the essay was to be
College Park High School, Class of 2014 (opens the original)
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Isn’t this exciting? Within the hour, you will be walking out of the pavilion and the end of your high school career. Your future—filled with opportunity and possibility—stretches out before you. But before you head out, I have a few words of advice I want to share.1. Set some goals.Figure out where you want to be in 50 years and make a plan to achieve it.At the beginning of the school year, in his introductory letter to me, Jason Johnsonbaugh said he wanted to become a doctor. He had a plan, wh
A Letter to the Critic who lives in my head (opens the original)
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August 19, 2026I’m in Beth’s Silent Writing session in A Writing Room. Every time I think I have a handle on the Light Pollution essay, the ever-present critic in my head talks to me.What about that new article about Bay Area astronomers and light pollution in Bay Nature? I really think you should reread all of your research, just to be sure that you didn’t make a mistake somewhere.Are you sure that’s the way you want to layer the essay? I’ll write her a letter from Creativity. Dear Critic,I app
Washing Chickens (opens the original)
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Alhambra High School (opens the original)
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A found poem based on the “I Am” poems of my first senior English classes in the old machine shop at Alhambra High School, Martinez, California. Class of 2004Class of 2004I am a student, a senior...a train that never stops...an immigrant to America. I am an athlete, a mechanic, a scholar. I am a person of faith...Jewish...Roman Catholic...Protestant. I am creative, unique, ambitious, a strange and mysterious person. I am a walking contradiction whose mind is running a million miles a minute. I a
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