HeyJaredTrail Buddies with Brownies
That feeling when you fall behind on a hike and catch up to your crew, and they're waving at you? And there's a view? And someone's brought brownies. Notes from the crossing for those crossing over. Play is load-bearing. The Greening is where we build.
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Part 2: how to not Wreck the thing you’re building (opens the original)
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In part one, I got into the thermodynamics of being in and finding community. At the end I came to a kind of sequence for building a runway to community that’s not thermodynamically stupid.One. Charge before structure.Nothing can be built out of depleted people, and almost everyone attempting this is depleted, which is usually why they are attempting it. The dream of community shows up most vividly in the people with the least left in the tank, because that dream is a correct read on what they’r
Why You Can't Play Hide and Seek With Two People (opens the original)
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I was going to write about my journey of finding village, and instead I found the physics underneath why everyone finds it so hard and maybe what to do and what to be about it. Let’s start with a quick thermodynamic bit because it’s actually the most useful lens for the journey.The universe runs on flowEvery living thing, a river, a forest, a kid on a bike figuring out a new trick, stays alive by moving energy through itself and releasing what it can’t use, and the moment that flow stops, the al
For Lulu: What a Village Can Eat (opens the original)
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The first time I saw Lulu I thought she was a toy. Not a stuffed animal, not a puppy, an animatronic, one of those absurdly expensive Japanese robots that blinks and tilts its head and makes you question your whole relationship with reality, because nothing alive could be that impossibly, unreasonably small, smaller than a hand, smaller than a balled-up sock, moving through the room like a cotton ball with opinions. I spent a solid ten minutes watching her before I accepted that she was a living
Snapping Beans with Someone I Was Mad At (opens the original)
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Last night I drove up a mountain to snap beans with a friend I’d had a big falling out with, and I did not want to go.We’d had a weekly ritual of connection for a long time, so many shared projects, and then the rupture, and months of not really talking. There had been one attempt at repair in there, and it was performed at me rather than with me, which left me more horrified than the falling out had. So when the invitation came I felt no energy in the direction of it. I thought, maybe the frien
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