Every Dashain I write a reminiscent note,one that smells of nostalgia;the days that were and thus can never again be. This Dashain I wanted to writeanything but nostalgia,but when the October sun struckboth cold and warm,shivery and humid at the same timeit ushered an unnamed feeling. Something happens to the citywhen it gets silentlike an…
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When the idea to take on the challenge of writing one poem a day for 100 consecutive days struck me sometime during August 2022, it felt too big of a task to even attempt. I had been slacking behind in writing poetry for the last few months (a few months might be an understatement, it…
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If there is one silver lining of the pandemic, it has to be the shift in virtual learning. While platforms like Zoom were available long before COVID-19 hit us, the pandemic forced us to see virtual learning in a new light. We realized that productive virtual learning is possible. While there certainly are challenges, opportunities…
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I first encountered Great Expectations by Charles Dickens as a kid – a birthday gift. I read the children’s version that had the plot covered, but the rich language that belonged to Dickens was missing. And that was just what I fell in love with when I read the book for the second time, not…
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Dashain makes me a little sad.It starts with nostalgia and endsin an abyss that offers no understanding.It is the change of season;the fluttering kitesthat do not quite reason.We could tie our phone with the thread and launch it instead. Dashain makes me a little sad.It might be the loss of powercrisp new clothes would otherwise…
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In her essay, ‘You’ll Never Be Famous, And That’s Okay,’ Emily Esfahani Smith writes for The New York Times: Today’s college students desperately want to change the world, but too many think that living a meaningful life requires doing something extraordinary and attention-grabbing like becoming an Instagram celebrity, starting a wildly successful company, or ending…
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