Category: Reflections

Telescoping Faith

In the succeeding entries, we telescope “faith,” a word with a variety of connotations. Join us in considering “faith,” its soaring capacities, and its particular and personal ones.

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Genealogy

“Genealogy is an engaging project to undergo because it navigates the…paradoxical relationship between a narrowly defined conception of the self and the larger, more communal one”

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How to Roadkill

Considering the effects of modernization, growing more thoughtful about consumption, and mourning roadkill.

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Running In Beirut

Wondering about the skeleton of the Holiday Inn in Beirut, and its meaning amidst post-conflict narratives.

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My First American Thanksgiving

The unspoken luxury of not debating politics with your relatives over dry turkey.

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A Mother’s Love, Lost in Translation

When the mother tongue is tucked away to make room for other languages, what becomes of it?

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Mind the Gap Year

What’s cooler than doing Bridge Year? Anything. But also, this.

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Mother Tongue

A power imbalance mediated by language, a relationship done and undone in the webs of translation.

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Encounters With Concussion Culture

“In my desperate search for a ‘cure’ for my concussion, I experimented with the outermost fringes of the medical world: the truly punk-rock subculture of medical science.”

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Rest is Peace

Reflections on a national tragedy, on a fractured window in a palace in time.

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Gifts from a Little Train

A love letter to the (temporarily) retired port of Princeton.

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Spaces, Lost and Found

Rocky’s floors, or maybe the nostalgia they hold, as something to yearn for.

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