January 2011
10 posts
Eating With 'Culinary Mindfulness' : NPR Health... →
What an appropriate time to see this article! I received my first CSA produce box yesterday. I was, needless to say, quite surprised by the variety and amount of produce I got for just $23.
Now, the really big news: this set-up is part of my decision to become vegan! For two-and-a-half weeks, starting on January 3rd, a couple of my friends and I participated in the Daniel Fast. We were on a...
“To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
I’ve been meaning to write this post for a couple of days now, but life got in the way. Bear with me, please.
If you go back to the beginning of this particular blog, you’ll find references to a man oh-so-lovingly called “S.” Though that’s been his name for the purpose of this blog, he’s has also been known to my friends and me as “PhD guy” or...
Any of my close friends knows that my advisor seems to have a particular distaste for me. If I didn’t know earlier, I certainly know now that I’m in her graduate seminar. Perhaps it’s because I’m an undergraduate — I’m not entirely sure where this distaste originates from. Take, for example, the fact that she’s told me a quite a few times that I probably...
The Decade in Pictures: The Noughties →
These pictures show the overwhelming amount of change that can occur in just a decade (+1 year). They also serve as a reminder of just how much hate and pain there is in this world and, quite frankly, it pains me to the core of my body and soul.
The Hindu: India, largely a country of immigrants →
An interesting article, but “Negroid features”? Really?? That term hasn’t been used seriously since at least the 70s… All jokes aside, however, I think the approach is “heartening” in theory and on paper, but is also somewhat problematic. If we were to start from the bottom of the article, the last three paragraphs are rife with generalizations that just because...
Your Zodiac Remains Unchanged, Still Not Based in... →
“Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is...”
– Laozi, Tao Te Ching (via iheartloons)
Happy New Year!
Friends,
Happy 2011! It is a new year, and a time of new beginnings. I won’t type much now, but I just wanted to share my gratitude for this community. It has been so supportive and amazing for much of my Stanford career.
I owe this blog a lot — it continues a very long tradition of memoirs, and here’s to it continuing in the final stages of my college career. I’ll need...