That bwessed event
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I’ve been wanting to write this blog post for a while, but more pressing
personal and work events have intervened. So here it goes; it's a bit long,
but be...
In Memory of a Wonderful Grandson
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In Memoriam Aiden Robert Mrotek Born: April 6, 2005 Died: September 7, 2026
Age: 7,824 days 21 full years and 154 days (Including 6 leap days) 187,776
hour...
Roots Before Branches:
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My weekly escape from all things grad school is Glee. I don't care if this
makes me silly or if others don't like it, but I love the musical
arrangements ...
"Algunas veces hay que decidirse entre una cosa a la que se está acostumbrado y otra que nos gustaría conocer." - Paul Coelho
"Nobody can do everything, but everybody can do something." - Gil Scott-Heron
"As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level." - Paul Wellstone
"We must never separate the lives we live from the words we speak." - Paul Wellstone
"If you hear a voice within you saying, 'You are not a painter,' then by all means, paint... and that voice will be silenced." - Vincent Can Gogh
"The dreams of childhood...its airy fables, its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond; so good, to be believed in once, so good to be remembered when outgrown." - Charles Dickens
"Every moment of one's life one is growing into more or retreating into less." - Norman Mailer
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.” - Jalal ad-Din Rumi
"I am interested in this world, in this life; not in some other world or future life." - Jawaharlal Nehru
"To this day Palestinians still have no state or armed forces. Our occupiers subject us to curfews, expulsions, home demolitions, legalized torture, and a highly imaginative assortment of human rights violations. No justifiable comparison can be drawn between the level of official accountability to which Palestinans are held for the actions of a few individuals and the responsibility for the systematic and intense violence against the entire Palestinian population practiced with impunity by the state of Israel." - Samah Jabr
"There is a secret in our culture. It is not that childbirth is painful, but that women are strong." - Laura Stavoe Harm
"Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them." - Eeyore (from Winnie the Pooh)
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrowmindedness, and many of our [American] people need it sorely on these accounts." - Mark Twain
"An intellectual is a person interested in ideas and comfortable with complexity." - Nicholas Kristof
"Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own." - Goethe
"The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being you. They are unique manifestations of the human spirit." - Wade Davis
"In a free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty, all are responsible." - Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
"If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home." - James Michener
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