Personal Reflections
Containing posts discussing larger issues of life, meaning, purpose, and other similar subjective topics.
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A Brick in the Wall
Imagine this: You’re a young soldier, six months out of your parent’s house, the only home you’ve ever known. You’re not a zealous patriot, but an 18-year-old-boy. You’re not hungry for glory, but for a sense of self and belonging.… Continue reading
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The Kibbutz: A Profile of the Ulpanists
I want to talk a little bit about the kinds of people who come to the Ulpan at kibbutz Ma’agan Michael. During my eleven weeks on the kibbutz, I’ve gotten to know people fairly well and have been able to… Continue reading
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An Observation of Some Patterns of Nature
A few weeks ago, I was re-assigned from working in the Bustan (literally “orchard,” actually a tropical garden of sorts) to working in the extensive Avocado fields. The job has me working from 5:30am to about 11:30am, with bouts of… Continue reading
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The Daily Aphorism
“Live your life as if you were looking backwards on it.” Continue reading
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The Kibbutz: An Aside
En route to a meteor shower, one of my classmates (who also knows the two couples mentioned in the previous post) tells me that the two women of the pair have been friends since middle school and that, of all… Continue reading
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First Observations of the Kibbutz
I arrived at the kibbutz Ma’agen Michael yesterday. Thus far my time has been spent meeting the other Ulpanists (students in the five-month hebrew language program), getting oriented and acclimated to the program, and exploring the kibbutz’s physical space. It’s… Continue reading
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A Metaphor
What if we understood civilization as a prism, refracting the white light of our deep and true selves, our primal, mammalian, amphibian, vertebrate, replicating selves, into the many-coloured splendor of our collective norms, habits, and daily affairs? The prism represents… Continue reading
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I wrote a column!
As some of you may know, I spent the first few seasons of college writing for Berkeley’s marvelous independent student newspaper, The Daily Californian. I was an arts writer, and at one point wrote a weekly column (“Painting With Thought”)… Continue reading
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