HeyJaredThirty-Something
Essays and entries on faith, fun, and feelings in your thirties.
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10 Air Travel Thoughts from London Heathrow (opens the original)
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I am currently in the London Heathrow Airport and have been for the last seven hours, which has allowed me plenty of time to sit, stand, sit again, use the toilets, buy marked-up Cadbury chocolate bars, and observe the approximately one million people who are also in the London Heathrow Airport. I’m making my way back from 11 days in England and Denmark, where I visited friends in London and Harpenden and spectated the World Road Running Championships in Copenhagen. But this post isn’t about tha
Goodnight, Mr. Berry (opens the original)
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10:00 PM—August 31, 2026It is the last night of August and I am sitting in my parents’ living room listening to the buzz of the bugs in their backyard—a chorus of crickets singing the swan song of summer. Their old dog sleeps in her bed in the corner and I should be sleeping, too, but I cannot sleep because my mind is buzzing with news of the death of a man I’ve never met but whose stories and poems made me feel as if I had.Tonight I am thinking about Wendell Berry: about his poems and stories a
The Mercy of Not Having It All (opens the original)
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My senior year of high school, I remember attending a banquet and hearing a speech by a successful woman who used to live in my small town. She had risen the ranks in her job (something in finance), but was also a mother and a wife and a golden doodle owner and a Costco Executive member. “I’m here to say: you CAN have it all!” she exclaimed, rather Oprah-like, her voice echoing off the walls of the cafeteria. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/
Hands, Feet, Mind (opens the original)
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I have been to a placewhere I met myself.There—not here—my hands worked without pretense andmy feet moved without haste andmy mind wandered without an agenda.<img
My "How I make this" statement(s) (opens the original)
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In case you’re not aware, this week Substack announced a new feature where authors can write a “How I make this” statement, which the CEO of Substack called “a statement where you can explain your process and set expectations for readers.” Designed to help readers know an author’s stance on using AI in their writing, the statement is part of a new integration with Panagram, not to be confused with Panama (the country) or Bananagrams (the game that had a chokehold on me in 2010).I’ve been writing
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