Category: culture
All the stuff that shapes the way we think, act, and interact with the world around us.
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The vicinity of Christmas
On my made-up holiday tradition, and the fact that it’s impossible to exist in a passive way online.
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The Christmas Truce – “I ask that the guns may fall silent”
On a treasured, history-making moment at Christmas time in 1914, from the trenches of World War I. The Christmas Truce is something I’ll be thinking of a lot this season especially, as the world once again is in the ugly shadows of war at Christmas.
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World pain
On coping with the fact that our world will never live up to our expectations and will always, always carry a deep pain with it. And we carry that pain too – sometimes more heavily than other times. This is one of those times for me.
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Are you an asker or a guesser?
In 2007, the discussion of Ask Culture and Guess Culture gained prominence. However, I didn’t know about it. Rude. So here I am with an essay about it only like 16 years too late.
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The times they are a-changin’
On why it’s hard to listen to new music but it’s also v v important to listen to new music.
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Does adulting really suck?
On why adulting doesn’t suck; but why the popular millennial narrative around adulting might be a little patronizing and overused.
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Unfinished Conversations 