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Oct 19, 2019

The Universe Will Inevitably Serve You a Healthy Dose of Your Own Medicine

Why being struck with your own wrongdoing is key to personal growth — My grandmother died at 92, surrounded by family in the comfort of her own bed. It was mid-June on a warm, breezy day. “She’s had a good inning,” my father comforted. A decade before her passing, a friendship had developed between us. She no longer saw me as a child…

Psychology

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The Universe Will Inevitably Serve You a Healthy Dose of Your Own Medicine
The Universe Will Inevitably Serve You a Healthy Dose of Your Own Medicine
Psychology

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·Sep 18, 2019

The Myth of the ‘Nice Person’

Nice is a facade grown from habit while kindness is a genuine act — It was a late winter afternoon. I sat, back rigid and upright, on a half-moon-shaped waiting room couch. It was a little before dusk and work hours for some had just come to a close. I yawned as I stared into the changing skyline from the 22nd-story view. It was…

Relationships

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The Myth of the ‘Nice Person’
The Myth of the ‘Nice Person’
Relationships

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Aug 8, 2019

On The Last Day Of His Life, David Berman, 52, Didn’t Forget To Die

Silver Jews frontman and poet extraordinaire, David Berman, dies at the age of 52 just days before his Purple Mountains tour was set to begin — Yesterday, the world lost one of its greatest poets-cum-musicians you’ve never heard of. Around 4 pm, Drag City announced that David Berman, frontman of The Silver Jews, died on August 7, 2019, just 5 days shy of when his new band, Purple Mountains, was set to play in Philly. At…

Music

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On the Last Day of His Life David Berman Didn’t Forget to Die
On the Last Day of His Life David Berman Didn’t Forget to Die
Music

10 min read


Oct 28, 2018

Wake Up And Smell The Lead-Laden Coffee

America’s gun problem has metastasized — What a sad day, as 11 people gathered peacefully in their place of worship were killed by a man equal parts disturbed, ignorant and well armed in a town not too far from my own. Just as sad, a few days ago at a Kroger outside of Louisville, Kentucky, a…

Guns

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Wake Up And Smell the Lead-Laden Coffee
Wake Up And Smell the Lead-Laden Coffee
Guns

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Feb 12, 2016

Bernie Sanders And The Growing Opposition To Unimpeded Systemic Power Structures

If you’re not feeling the bern, you’re quite possibly “in-flammable” — As a society, we have been told that capitalism is synonymous with democracy, or, more accurately, that capitalism begets democracy. In the globalized world, we see now that the two are not fuel for each others’ fodder. China is arguably an aggressively capitalist country, but its’ political system is as…

Politics

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Politics

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Alia Rahman

Alia Rahman

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CEO. Engineer. Essayist. End FGM Campaigner. Truth-Seeking. IG @the_naked_writer

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