HeyJaredTrains in the Distance
Notes about my poetry, my workshops and what it's like to do a PhD. Living and working in the Yorkshire Dales. The sound of a train called SIXTY rumbling a few years away.
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HAPPY AUTUMN (opens the original)
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I'm writing this on holiday in France where it's hot and sunny and after I've finished I'm going to go outside for a swim in the pool and then I might go down to the beach later to swim in the sea. We are very lucky to have had the opportunity to stay here in a friend's house for 10 days between 4 days and then one last day in Paris before our return home. I think though, by the time Sunday comes, we will both be ready for home. This year we have had three summers: one in Australia in January an
SIXTY IS ONE YEAR AWAY (opens the original)
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Yesterday I became fifty-nine and I am now headlong into my 60th year. I think I’m okay with it, I feel less miserable than I felt when I was about to be thirty, and as excited as I was at 39. But truthfully, my fifties has been my best decade, I feel like I have become the person I want to be going into the last phase of my life. I’m very lucky. I am in a loving, safe relationship that allows me to thrive but keeps me on my toes so as not to get complacent ( to be honest we’ve needed each other
20 Years is a Lifetime (opens the original)
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Where's that girl (opens the original)
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I was going to post this on Substack because I thought it might get a bit long but sometimes things get lost on Substack. Or perhaps people just don't read my posts.(I have put it on Substack so hi to the 12 people who are reading this) And if you don't want to read this, you don't have to. The usual content warnings of body image/weight loss etc. This week has proved to me how far I've come this year, I was going to say physically, but mentally, too. When Mark suggested we go up Helvellyn, I sa
LIFE (opens the original)
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I've felt lately that life has really been ‘lifing’ and I'm a bit knackered to be honest.None of the ‘lifing’ has actually happened to me but I have felt the effects of it all. At the beginning of July we ran our first Poetry at the Old School Room festival in Haworth and what was a fantastic event really left its mark, both physically and mentally. The same weekend my mum broke her wrist really badly and has needed support ever since. Then my daughter and her family came to visit from Australia
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