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Thank you to Dr. Blasey Ford and all the women who have had the courage to stand up and name the men who attacked them, even when knowing that their renewed trauma will likely not stop these men from continuing to take what they don’t deserve. We have to keep talking. We have to NAME
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Our minutes are our days are our years We make vision boards to remind ourselves We watch TED Talks We meditate We fuck We pray We create Trying to convince ourselves That this moment THIS one Matters
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This city is everything they say it is. It will devour you and elevate you like nowhere else. Living here has been hard. Like really fucking hard. Even with all the things we had going for us, at times, it nearly killed us. People come here to make it, but mostly, this city will break
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Scientists have been trying to harness the power of electricity to enhance the functioning of the human body for centuries. Perhaps the most notable achievement, in this regard, is the invention of defibrillators that use an electric current to essentially reset a person’s heart when it is uncontrollably quivering in cardiac arrest. When not experiencing cardiac
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When your creative, optimistic, ambitious muse abandons you to take a nap, the best you can do is to go on an adventure or pick up a book (or both if you’re lucky). Maybe it’ll create a spark, but even if it doesn’t, at least you will have learned something or enjoyed something along the
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What is the blackest black? Or the whitest white? If it presented itself, alone, without comparison, could you specify what it was or what it wasn’t? Is this one the purest form? (or the most legitimate? or the best, perhaps the worst?) If you looked into its eyes, to its depth, could you judge, straight-faced,
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A dog forces you to be active and present in the moment – because said dog will drive you nuts if it is bored or if it doesn’t get enough exercise. Without a dog, I found myself doing much more tv-watching, playing on my phone, or drinking, or more likely, all 3 at once to…
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“Quickly and lightly he lifted her down to the gallery and slid the door closed. Her surprise pleased him enormously. Trembling, she called for help. ‘It will do you no good. I am always allowed my way. Just be quiet, if you will please.” -The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu (early 11th century, Japan)
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We bear not only the “sins” but also the fruits – the cumulative knowledge, the tools, the health, the appearance, the environment, the beliefs – of our ancestors; not because some god ordained it, but because we carry them with us. We are them. And not just metaphorically or philosophically. But physically, genetically, they are…
Trynia Kaufman 