HeyJaredUpstream
Upstream is an offering of essays that map the landscape as I see it. I will tell some old stories, a few borrowed stories and one or two that explore why walking against the weight of water is a beautiful calling.
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September: Apples, Eve, Forbidden Fruit (opens the original)
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GatherThere were thousands of apples stacked along the wall. Some were large and waxy, bright pink with hardly a blemish. Others bruised easily and oxidised to a rot-brown. A laundry basket was loaded with crab apples, the bitter, wild cousin of Bramley and Bloody Butcher. They smelled mildly alcoholic from a few soft ones the wasps had got to first. An apple is complete; a full circle. I cannot bite into one without the hope of revelation. As I moved through the stations of the harvest - wash,
Always the beautiful answer (opens the original)
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When I told my publicist I renounced social media over the summer there was a sharp intake of breath. “Completely?”“Unapologetically.”“Even Substack?”“The whole lot.”I explained that I had moved on to my next novel. That I was in the thick of it. That there was so much noise out there I couldn’t think straight.“No,” she said. “No?”“No.”She then outlined a less extreme strategy to reduce my online presence while creating content I believe in. It’s called My Sunday Best and th
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