HeyJaredThrough the Cracks: Beauty and Light from the Broken Places
Leonard Cohen. Kintsugi. Lurianic Kabbalah. Brene Brown. The commonality? Beauty in brokenness. Reaching towards that beauty through words, art, and music. That's what Subversive Light is all about. Read all about it in newsletter.
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September again, that month of sighs... (opens the original)
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September. Again. And writer’s block. Again. Well, maybe not writer’s block as much as life in the way. But the result is the same — my eyes and my heart are focused backwards, to all the other September things that continue to weigh on my spirit as I walk through these thirty days, every year. I do not know what it is, why the nature of this month is one of melancholy. The poets would say that it is the fading of the light, the falling of the leaves, but the results of climate change in our wor
Open my mouth and let me bear... (opens the original)
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Welcome one and all. I would use a cliche to start our time together here about the end of summer, but, for me and maybe for you, all summer has meant this year is heat, home repairs, and general hand wringing over the state of the world around me. Okay, I got that out of my system. And with some interior space created, let’s talk about something that might help us all find our way out of those darker places…music and imagination and the act of bearing witness. Maybe you, like me, can find somet
A most dreadful question... (opens the original)
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Summer it is, my friends. And instead of enjoying the gifts of the season, I’m deeply involved in thinking about identity, specifically, my identity, here, and elsewhere. So please excuse me as I pause my usual observations about life and living to take up a subtopic: me and my work. Right now I’m thinking specifically about about the words and practices that hover over most of what I write here on Substack, ideas that I toss around but never really address at a personal level, you know, like sp
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