Doing what you love is not always loving what you do. There's an inherent sacrifice to it.

Today, November 30th is The Day to Mark the Departure and Expulsion of Jews from Arab Countries. For many Mizrahi Jews like myself, it is considered to be a belated recognition of our collective catastrophe. The catastrophe of the forgotten refugees. We demand justice.

A change of scene won’t solve a problem that originates in the landscape of the mind. People are miserable in the city and the country, in grand estates and tiny apartments. There are many who are happy in all these places. Is it our environment we can’t tolerate, or ourselves?

Lu Guang, a remarkable photographer, has been missing in #China for 5 wks. His images are haunting. He is a US permanent resident. Esp after Trump’s cruel/short-sighted #Khashoggi response, US must demand that Lu Guang be reunited w his family. nyti.ms/2G8HNi5

2018: The year in which comedy became indistinguishable from a no-talking retreat. Note from Kisin below -- "Plot twist: It's an UNPAID charity gig."

You child needs ZERO added sugar. You're not a bad parent if you say no. You're not a mean parent if you say no. You are doing the right and proper thing. cbsnews.com/news/us-babies…

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We study drugs far more than we study the foods we put into our bodies. This needs to change, says Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee "A careful scientific examination of diet as medicine is now long overdue in oncology, and in most fields of medicine" nyti.ms/2Eg3Xx6

If I were to design an ideology to disempower women I would tell them that: - STEM fields are hotbeds of sexism - Any bad sexual experience makes you a rape victim - Traumatic experiences damage you for life - You can't trust men to help you succeed. Sound familiar?

Wow, this. Turkish photographer Uğur Gallenkuş portrays 2 different worlds within a single image. Combining pics one of the Western world & the other of the Rest, highlighting how, despite living on the same planet, these places couldn’t be more different

So many people getting cancelled these days -- especially eccentric, ornery, and/or 'neurodivergent' people. This Quillette article from 3 years ago, which IMHO is one of the better things I've written, seems more relevant than ever. quillette.com/2017/07/18/neu…

The problem is not people being uneducated. The problem is that people are educated just enough to believe what they have been taught, and not educated enough to question anything from what they have been taught. 🧠

Kids, I shit you not. There used to be a phone number you could call just to find out what time it was.

“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” ― Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy

Wilfred Reilly People over eat, for the same reason people drink too much, shop too much, smoke too much, binge watch tv, work too much etc. People hurt, then self medicate with things, people, substances. Change the story, the wiring in the brain. Neurons that fire together, wire together

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I am good in this...just´saying. Go Finland!

Tanskan demari-pääministeri: "Massamaahanmuutto on uhka jokapäiväiselle elämälle Euroopassa". Fredriksen näkee Tanskan demareiden tiukan maahanmuuttolinjan olevan äänestäjien mieleen: "Frederiksen attributes her party’s success with voters to her migration stance[...]"