Word: everydayness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Carpenter Center last Sunday, the directors showed their work in progress, with half of the proceeds from the event going to finish the film and half to the Good Samaritan Home. The 20 minutes of loosely edited footage they have so far are full of images of uncomfortable everyday intimacy: a child’s head being shaven, a skinned rabbit hanging to be eaten, children standing around a murdered corpse. In the slums of a city where 100,000 children live on the streets, former street children talk with bruised toughness of their days sniffing glue. Now, sitting...
...can’t imagine getting news like that over e-mail. E-mail is so everyday. I want something that says, “[Harvard] really wants you,” she said...
There is a magical world of mystery and whimsy tucked into the gritty folds of our everyday lives, too. You occasionally wander through this mystical realm, though you are so inured to it that you probably don’t even notice it. The inhabitants of this world look just like you and me, but if you observe closely, you may be able to pick them out—they glance about furtively, they obey the Walk-signals, they are amazed by all that brick (sidewalks even...
...sleep much. Directing an emergency program is quite an experience. It's like playing Scavenger Hunt and one hundred games of BINGO at once (Let me add TWISTER). Stress. Lots of it. There are always deadlines, tomorrow's and yesterday's deadlines everyday. This morning I noticed more ashtrays filled with very short butts in our "drug free" office. But it is the positive stress that makes it all worth...
...everything on the phone, their letters eventually arrive. Again today, they are expecting looting and persecution of minority ethnic groups. A handwritten letter from a staff member describes his beating by a high authority figure. Another's home is entirely looted because he works the usual 16- hour day, everyday, taking no time for managing his own home affairs. Most of the staffers could have been the first to flee, but it is important for them to be there. They want to stay. It's lifesaving; it is meaningful...