Word: daydream
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...While women at Harvard boast diversity, talent, ambition, leadership, great character, beauty, and creativity, of late, we lack a certain devotion to imagining the abundance of paths that we may pursue as women. The individual woman should dare to daydream beyond the popularly accepted ideals of what an educated, privileged woman may do with her life. Here on our beloved campus, we tend to gravitate towards two specific paradigms of a woman’s future: the “superwoman” who wants to achieve everything, and the accomplished woman who prefers to stay at home to raise...
...cool too. 1. “Rather Ripped” by Sonic Youth—The single “Incinerate” is admittedly catchy, but anything by SY just gives me flashbacks to those days I was peer-pressured into listening to “Daydream Nation” on loop in an attempt to “expand my mind.” ^_^ 2. “Boys and Girls in America” by The Hold Steady—Being only 16, I have never set foot in an establishment that serves alcohol and don?...
Nickel Mines, Pa., is not just a small, rural town where bad things rarely happen. It is a place, steeped in Amish culture, where peacefulness and spiritualism are nurtured. When big-city dwellers daydream of somewhere far from the high-intensity stresses - and perceived dangers - of the megapolis, it might be a place like Nickel Mines that comes to mind. Surely that's one of the reasons that America was so shaken this week, when five children were executed in Nickel Mines' one-room schoolhouse...
...they may leave aside the clutter of contradictions. Just because we eat together does not mean we eat right: Domino's alone delivers a million pizzas on an average day. Just because we are sitting together doesn't mean we have anything to say: children bicker and fidget and daydream; parents stew over the remains of the day. Often the richest conversations, the moments of genuine intimacy, take place somewhere else, in the car, say, on the way back from soccer at dusk, when the low light and lack of eye contact allow secrets to surface...
...have no conclusions on charity—whether I should aim for efficacy or temper productivity with self-gratification. But the hassle of good works in a well-known place makes one daydream of absconding to the blissful tropics, like those bright-eyed Canadians...