Slide To Reality with love “We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. “
- Iris Murdoch
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The Vulnerability of Joy

On Monday this week, I was having a pretty good day. It wasn't that anything spectacular had happened, but it was just one of those: three green lights in a row, positive thoughts

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The Life of Ideas

Lately I have been fascinated with the sensitive nature and life cycles of ideas. In my experience, there are three types. For the purpose of this blog, let’s call them: the good, the

A letter to my 18-year-old self

Yesterday was my sister's graduation. I can't quite believe it. It seems as though it was yesterday, rather than eight years ago, when I was the one wearing the mortarboard, feeling as though my

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The Call of The Wild Woman

Today is my birthday. As I blow my candles, I have a single wish. It is this: to return to the wild woman within me. Lately I have been learning more about the Female

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Is love a Tiffany Necklace?

The media is guilty of many felonies: spreading lies, desensitizing us to extreme violence, mercilessly chopping off our attention spans and dicing up our thoughts. Lately, I am thinking more and more about another

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25 Things I’ve Learned By 25

  As a teenager, what often made the long distance between the place I currently inhabited and the place I was so impatient to get to bearable were the dreams I collected. I imagined

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The Hidden Blessings of Self-isolation

The five stages of reacting to the coronavirus outbreak. At first, we were all a little unconcerned, cynical even. We might have laughed at those who wore a mask and flaunted our immunity.

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Technology and I: The end of an affair?

It's 3:58pm on a Saturday afternoon and the airplane icon is flying west in the right corner of my iPhone. A flight. An escape. A journey. I have fled. And it feels amazing.