HeyJaredWonder Waves
I read widely, feel deeply, and try to make (some) sense of it
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Rooms we inhabit (opens the original)
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“I think this is important: memories and ideas happen in a place. An essay is a place for ideas; it has to feel like a place. It has to give one the feeling of entering a room.” — , in “The Essay as a Realm”In my first essay I ever published here on Substack, I took an imagined walk through the rooms of my childhood home. I resurrected incredible detail before my mental eye: the fabric’s texture of my father’s armchair and the mold where he had just sat. How I felt the softn
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Out of the apparent chaos of my brain phone—photographs, highlighted passages from books or half-forgotten notes and sketches—a small sweet practice has emerged for me. I love entering a single keyword (or a short combination of words) into the search field inside my phone’s photo library and seeing what comes up. The results often reconnect me with the interest and impulse that led me to take these photographs (or create these images or notes) in the first place. They’ve become breadcrumbs I le
A tub of marbles (opens the original)
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The act of descending, getting closer to the earth, is metaphysical; it changes how you speak and think. It is literally profound. — Elisa GabbertIf I was tasked to conjure my favorite mental images from my childhood, my now long-gone collection of glass marbles may be among them. I only realized this the other day at home in my kitchen, when I found,1 in one of the many drawers, a small stash of marbles that had belonged to my daughter, now seventeen.
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