Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Mindful Walking
When I’m in turmoil, when I can’t think, when I’m exhausted and afraid and feeling very, very alone, I go for walks. It’s just one of those things I do. I walk and I walk and sooner or later something comes to me, something to make me feel less like jumping off a building.” ― Jim…
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Fa diz th’ grottie linen?
Who does the dirty linen? I have a dirty battered superwoman cape for the cleaners. It’s better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week. Laurence J. Peter Have you been handed the superwoman cape, mine is kind of battered yet it is very much there.…
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Accommodating AND…
When the folk singer and story teller Sarah Kay Lee was young she wanted to be a “princess , ballerina astronaut” but she eventually realized she could not. When I am in a bitchy mood I would say all that she had to do was to adopt an Indian mother from Bay Area, she would…
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Missing an old habit.
When I was thirteen my father gave me an alarm clock, it has is with since then. It has been fixed for 5 am and I have been waking to the alarm. The knowledge that the alarm will not let me over sleep allowed me sound sleep. With the advent of the mobile, even the…
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Sheroes – Tavleen’s Smartizens in a Smart city.
Citizens— can now morph to Smartizens. Tavleen Mehendiratta was a speaker at SHEROES who has a lot of passion for what she does, so much so, it has changed her entire course of life. Her anthem has now turned to the future is not cars but mobility. Sounds quite paradoxical for an automobile engineer to…
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