[Dating without Kundera][1] reminds me of my friend [Isabella, whom I wrote about recently][2], because she recommended _The Unbearable Lightness of Being_ to me more than a decade ago. According to this writer, however, that gesture meant little more than a pseudo-intellectual exchange of witty Euro banter between two East Coast proto-philosophers.
[1]:http://www.idlewords.com/2005/11/dating_without_kundera.htm
[2]: http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/sutta/digha/dn-16-sv0.html
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At the end of June 2004, I boarded a plane (after having shipped a mere fraction of my possessions ahead of me, discarded over fifty percent of what I had accrued, and stored the rest at the homes of friends and family) bound for Maui. I’d done some research before leaving Boston, but I’d never […]
I don’t talk about it much here, but I’ve long been a bit of a tea addict. While living in Boston, I amassed quite a collection of teas, and I have one beautiful person to thank for pointing me down that path.
We met, for the first time, at [Wellesley College][1], where she studied toward a […]
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I’m [at that age … ideas arrive in search of me][1], and I’ve long been dissatisfied with the apparent divide between corporate America’s idea of an employee (think “assets” and “liabilities”) and my own idea of myself — and my co-workers — as full-fledged human beings. At the same time, a number of trends […]