Reading the old posts 5 years on has helped re-live these moments and thoughts that were so integral to my life, so easily archived at the back of my mind. I've realized that I've never even blogged about E - the last one, a private one, was made under a month before we met. Perhaps he had filled a space in my world, such that it took COVID, and ( Read more... )

The whirlwind of first year - projects, exams, parties, holidays, introspection, questions - dies down. Most of the MBA class has vacated out of Cambridge on an expensive trek or hurried vacation squeezed in before the internship begins. And I'm - still internship-less and perhaps destined to be so in not a bad way - nestled pretty much relaxed and ( Read more... )

Philanthropy is the market for love ( Read more... )

It's been a long two weeks in California. I feel like it's been an eternity since Boston ( Read more... )

In America, people follow entertainment more closely, watch more TV, watch more reality TV, eat more, eat more unheathily, take more photos, take more selfies, care more about living up to a stereotype and ... discuss politics less, read less, travel less; care less about what is right and care less about understanding the world ( Read more... )

"The best is yet to be".
http://www.backthatsassup.com/2015/03/the-most-brilliant-politician-you-never-knew/

I cannot fathom how the universe contends with what is left /
Because it is clear to me I have the very best

"But two days later, I ran into Terry on Cross Campus, and he said, “Well, well, well! Are we going to room together?” And I said yes with the same feeling with which, later on, I would deal with love and adventure and travel and life, that feeling of looking both ways, deciding it was dangerous, and leaping anyway. There was a warmth in Terry, and ( Read more... )

Snowed in for two days, which meant I probably have learnt more than I usually do in a long time ( Read more... )

that's the attitude!