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“The world was a flat plain with nowhere to hide…Nothing was all right…Flat landscapes have always given me a way to love myself,” are just a few of the achingly honest and intriguing lines Masud shares in her introduction.
Gardening is a busy but slow hobby. There are months of planning, gathering materials, and preparation, all for a blur of activity in three to four months, and then the cycle begins anew. I’ve grown to enjoy the planning and prep since, if I do it right, it means we’re in for a decent season with a rich crop. It also takes a lot of waiting, and while the adage says, “Good things come to those who wait,” sometimes you wait for terrible, awful things. Such was our situation a couple of years...
It would be reductive to say that "The Museum of Human History" wants us to “live in the present,” but in many ways this is what her characters glimpse when they truly encounter one another. Bergman spells out the fragility of our own lives in the face of deep time: “How much time there is but how little is ours.”
When I was put on a performance improvement plan (PIP), I was shocked and felt powerless. But I made significant changes to my workflow and survived.
A story about the way we treat-and perceive-invisible disabilities.
Robinson refuses to limit herself to patterns of spiritual theory or become too bogged down in engaging with prior scholarship. She presents the primacy of what she sees in the text—and the reader is rewarded by her deep reading.
Kielland astonishes through an impressive ability to convey how choices compound and become unbearable to one’s inner life — abetted by Damion Searls’ painstakingly careful translation.
The new norm for companies and organizations looking for fresh hires is to look deeper than just the degrees the candidates possess. The increased specialization of roles within workplaces has created bottlenecks as to who can actually be hired.