HeyJaredUnfinished Sympathy
On the rhythms and rituals that regulate an (un)sympathetic nervous system.
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Ways to inhabit your own life on purpose (opens the original)
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I think it’s such a beautiful thing to simply and quietly inhabit your own life, without needing proof that you’re living it. Without needing to prove you’re living it… Thanks for reading Unfinished Sympathy ! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.
The little ways that make a day yours (opens the original)
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Another turn around the sun (the kind that involves cake and candles), and naturally you find yourself in a reflective mood—especially when you’ve collected quite a few of them by now. By your early 40s, they land less like a fanfare and more like a mild existential crisis that usually peaks before the first cup of tea has had a chance to take full effect.Thanks for reading Unfinished Sympathy ! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<form class="subs
Tiny Pieces of Evidence (opens the original)
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I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the small things that make a life feel lived. At the start of the year, I began sharing a little Substack Note that ended each month with an overview of the rhythms and rituals that made that month what it was.<img alt=""
A Life More Ordinary (opens the original)
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№ 11 ~ The ‘90s gave us A Life Less Ordinary.The title alone tells you something about how we’ve been taught to think about an ordinary life. Ordinary is what you escape. What you outgrow. What you grow into. Because to live a ‘life’ means to strive for extra-ordinary. And, nearly thirty years later, it feels like we’ve reached peak ‘less ordinary’. If anything, more has become one of the defining measures of a life well lived (and if it isn’t on ‘the gram’ are you even living?).More experiences
What Happens When You Winter Through Summer (opens the original)
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Summer has a confidence about it. A kind of loud, bullish confidence. One that arrives convinced it knows exactly how we’d all like to spend the next few months. Mildly arrogant, heavily opinionated about what we should be doing, and how we should be spending our time to ensure ‘maximum summer living’. Outside. Brightly. Vibrantly. Full weekends. Endless days. Crowds. People. Packed calendars. Travel. Memories. Making all the memories.And this year, after weeks of relentless heat, it feels loude
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