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Aaron @theclutteredmouth.com · 16/08/2026

Still just this guy trying to write something I'd want to read.

Me, about 8 years old, sitting at a typewriter with headphones on. It's my inner self in a photo.

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Aaron @theclutteredmouth.com · 27/07/2026

Post a perfect album from the 90s

The cover for Third Eye Blind's first album.

Cover for the Album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness by The Smashing Pumpkins

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Aaron @theclutteredmouth.com · 29/06/2026

Show me a picture that captures your essence (if you feel like it)

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Aaron @theclutteredmouth.com · 28/06/2026

without downloading new pics, describe your gender with one image

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Aaron @theclutteredmouth.com · 04/06/2026

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

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Aaron @theclutteredmouth.com · 24/05/2026

Repost with the Russian agent who spies on your posts.

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Aaron @theclutteredmouth.com · 14/04/2026

Its Alfredo. Its not supposed to be fat free.

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Aaron @theclutteredmouth.com · 14/04/2026

The most political thing you can do.

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Aaron @theclutteredmouth.com · 10/02/2026

Hame made chicken scampi for dinner. Hope I didn't screw it up.

Chicken scampi cooking in a pan, with sauce, chicken, red peppers, and green beans.

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Aaron @theclutteredmouth.com · 04/02/2026

This is who runs this account.

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Aaron @theclutteredmouth.com · 11/09/2025

Taking a break from sermon writing to stuff food in my face. Then back to the cross and power dynamics.

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Aaron @theclutteredmouth.com · 22/08/2025

This is my essay for the week. It's about the gospel passage from the lectionary. Luke 13.10-17. It's the story of the woman healed on the Sabbath, and how the synagogue leader wanted respectability. There's something in there for us. I tried to dig it out. open.substack.com/pub/aaronjsm...

Dark, blurred background with words on top that read, "We receive the bread of heaven and the cup of salvation in our community. And then we go to the world, becoming what we have received: a means of God’s grace to make itself manifest in the world that desperately needs the bread and wine.

We go out, not to struggle to remain whole in a world that wants to tear us apart but to be freely broken, s..."

In the lower left-hand corner it says, "Aaron J. Smith" with "sacred time" under it, and then the link "aaronjsmith.substack.net" under that.

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Aaron @theclutteredmouth.com · 20/08/2025

Three of my favorite books. These books aren't easy reads. They demand from you. They stretch you. They read you. This is my kind of literature. I hope I can someday write that reads others. What are some of your favorite books, ones you return to, ones that read you?

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Aaron @theclutteredmouth.com · 31/07/2025

Here's a poem for you. I hope you like it. open.substack.com/pub/theclutt...

Dark background of old books with the words, "5:30 Lateness" on the top of the image.

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Aaron @theclutteredmouth.com · 31/07/2025

I still like this poem. open.substack.com/pub/aaronjsm...

An old grandmothers hands clasped together with the words, "I am older Than My Mother" on top of the picture.

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Aaron @theclutteredmouth.com · 23/07/2025

The Cluttered Mouth: For everything that's stuck in my throat theclutteredmouth.substack.com/about#%C2%A7...

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Aaron @theclutteredmouth.com · 18/07/2025

Witness can be a powerful thing. open.substack.com/pub/aaronjsm...

Dictionary entry for witness with the words "bear the witness break out of the church-industrial complex" over it.

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Aaron @theclutteredmouth.com · 10/07/2025

New essay is up. I Desire Mercy, Not Mission Trips. aaronjsmith.substack.com/p/i-desire-m...

Text imposed on a blurred image that reads, "Colonialism is the systemic assertion of control by one group over another—geographically, culturally, economically, spiritually—often under the disguise of benevolence or moral superiority. That disguise of goodness and care is nothing short of deceit and bearing false witness about our motives and intentions.

We long to save people, and the way we save people is by turning them into us.

This isn’t loving our neighbor. This is colonizing them so that we can feel better."

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Aaron @theclutteredmouth.com · 08/07/2025

Up at the Book of Common Words: I'm Just A Christian Dirtbag Baby. open.substack.com/pub/aaronjsm...

Rocker jumping while playing hisbguitar. Overlaid are the words, "Im just a Christian dirtbag baby"

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Aaron @theclutteredmouth.com · 25/02/2025

Front New Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton.

Snapshot from New Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton. It reads "A REVOLUTION is supposed to be a change that turns everything completely around. But the ideology of political revolution will never change anything except appearances. There will be violence and power will pass from one party to another, but when the smoke clears and the bodies of all the dead men are underground, the situ- ation will be essentially the same as it was before: there will be a minority of strong men in power exploiting all the others for their own ends. There will be the same greed and cruelty and lust and ambition and avarice and hypocrisy as before."

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Aaron @theclutteredmouth.com · 24/01/2025

Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?

Hand holding a sign that reads, "Jesus would slap the shit out of you."

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Aaron @theclutteredmouth.com · 27/12/2024

Without downloading any pictures, what energy are you bringing into 2025?

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Aaron @theclutteredmouth.com · 11/12/2024

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.

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Aaron @theclutteredmouth.com · 08/12/2024

Advertise your account with just one image.

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Aaron @theclutteredmouth.com · 05/12/2024

Notes about peace and peacemaking. It's all connected.

Mind map showing blocks of small text connected by lines.

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Aaron @theclutteredmouth.com · 04/12/2024

This roast was very present.

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Aaron @theclutteredmouth.com · 21/11/2024

I have achieved balance in the force.

Screenshot showing 224 followers and 224 people I'm following.

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Aaron @theclutteredmouth.com · 21/11/2024

Yesterday I learned that happiness is not just the absence of unhappiness. Apparently happiness is something you can experience as a baseline emotion. I know. My mind is blown. Here's to learning new things and confronting our own demons.

Man with unkempt beard peering over the tops of his glasses

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Aaron @theclutteredmouth.com · 05/11/2024

My son does freehand drawings in his free time.

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Aaron @theclutteredmouth.com · 02/11/2024

The energy i bring to BlueSky.

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Aaron @theclutteredmouth.com · 22/10/2024

Expose yourself theologically with four book covers, given without comment.

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