I haven’t posted in a while, but have been getting amazing responses to this blog lately. Thank you so much, dear readers, for sharing your thoughts with me! Anyway, I have been feeling a little anxious about updating but am overwhelmed with writing my dissertation proposal. An amazing mentor and writing buddy of mine, Mike [...]
The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Crack-Up"
…and
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle." Philo of Alexandria, quoted in Ibtisam Barakat's "Tasting the Sky, A Palestinian Childhood"
September 11, 2009
Looking: How we respond to the suffering of others
I haven’t posted in a while, but have been getting amazing responses to this blog lately. Thank you so much, dear readers, for sharing your thoughts with me! Anyway, I have been feeling a little anxious about updating but am overwhelmed with writing my dissertation proposal. An amazing mentor and writing buddy of mine, Mike [...]
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