Maria Potoroczyn
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Maria Potoroczyn
There is no heaven for newthings. There is no Hall of Fame. There is only memory and change. Nothing (the opposite of newthing) and no one are immune. The goal of newthing is to live as long as possible while staying true. To do this, newthing must counterintuitively accept that one day it will die. If newthing accepts the certainty of death,
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to be known is to be seen clearly, else its best to not be known at all
The day passed slowly at first — warm sun on the back patio and a short call with your grandparents. They miss us so much but the truth of being together keeps us apart. When we say I miss you we mean we miss how things would be if we were all just a little better than we are. A little more forgiving, a little more flexible, a little less stuck in... See more
Best way to explain why I live so far from my family and my homeland
In Fragments – Rituals
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Get a life. A real life, not a manic pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house. Do you think you'd care so very much about those things if you blew an aneurysm one afternoon, or found a lump in your breast? Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on a breeze over Seaside Heights, a life in
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You aren’t the same person after a good night’s sleep as you are after a sleepless night. But which person is you?
Sarah Manguso • 300 Arguments
And as your widow rocks in the arms of a loving family, may the physicist let her know that all the photons that bounced from you were gathered in the particle detectors that are her eyes, that those photons created within her constellations of electromagnetically charged neurons whose energy will go on forever.
Aaron Freeman • Why You Want a Physicist to Speak at Your Funeral - The Now
You can love your kids deeply and hate being a mom. You can hold your children to the bone and still proclaim how sucky it is to be a female parent, in America at least, with our lack of paid family leave or high-quality day care and the cultural insistence that “good women” should stake their entire lives on the opportunity.
Elise Loehnen • Opinion | The Lies Mothers Tell Themselves and Their Children
By some measures you are lucky these days to get 47 seconds of focused attention on a discrete task. “Middlemarch” is tough sledding on that timeline. So are most forms of human interaction out of which meaningful life, collective action and political engagement are made. We are witnessing the dark side of our new technological lives, whose
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