HeyJaredWeed Church
A newsletter about the stories we tell ourselves, have always told ourselves, and will continue to tell ourselves until it's all over.
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Tragic Indifference (opens the original)
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A little more than a week ago, when I was picking my oldest daughter up from school, she gleefully told me that her classmates had spent the day making a taboo joke. When she told me the joke, I had an experience that I’m finding is a near constant as a parent, as my initial inner reaction of concern was countered by a Herculean effort to keep my external reaction ho-hum. Kids are always in a state of experimentation (with their language, their identity, which lines can or can’t be crossed) and
Basketball is Church, and Don Nelson Died a Saint (opens the original)
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I was a creative writing student at Carnegie Mellon University in 2007 when the Golden State Warriors upset the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA playoffs. At that point, I had quit the college basketball team due to a combination of injury + laziness + sudden awareness of my mediocrity, but it was still a vital part of my life. All of my friends were basketball players. I had gotten into a great college because of basketball. My classmates in the writing program knew of me as a basketball player firs
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