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"You know, they say when you love what you do, it's not work. But, I think, when you really love what you do, it's great work."

—Yo-Yo Ma

@ Hollywood Bowl, Goat Rodeo Sessions Tour
August 25, 2013

We are all living, at most, half of a life, she thought. There was the life that you lived, which consisted of the choices you made. And then, there was the other life, the one that was the things you hadn’t chosen. And sometimes, this other life felt as palpable as the one you were living. Sometimes, it felt as if you might be walking down Brattle

“When you have children, you’ll never be able to worry about a friend as much again,” Dov said.

It was all such an insult, the Hamptons. It was an insult to economic disparity. It was an insult to leading a good life and asking hard questions about what one should sacrifice in the name of decency. It was an insult to having enough—to knowing that there was such a thing as enough. Inside those houses weren’t altruistic, good people whom fortun