I'd stopped trying to find Matilda, because I realized she 'd been inside me the whole time. She was the girl I'd been dreaming about since I was three.I didn't become her. I just finally let her out.
Anthropologist Ellen Dissanayake actually has a name for this capacity. She calls it “making special.” In her work studying early human societies, she also kept noticing an interesting pattern.Every culture, without having spoken to one another first, kept adding these playful touches to the most ordinary aspects of their lives.
did many things. She bought and sold Swiss voile lace. She catered for weddings and birthdays.She was an architect of joy, architect of bringing people and things together.
She catered for weddings and birthdays.She was an architect of joy, architect of bringing people and things together.In our glass cabinet at home, she would collect objects of memories she treasured
Myself, I developed like my mother the same collector spirit. She collected objects, I collect symbols.A sun, a rock, hands, a star,
I asked the same question to my friend. She said, "If I ignore my bachelorette party outside,my last unforgettable trip was in Vietnam.
So what I did was, seven years ago, I started an art scholarship in her name at our high school. She wanted to be a professional artist, and it feels like that's exactly what she would have wanted me to do.And you know what I regret now?
with Leo, she actually works with us and and what she did is is the obvious thing and the simple thing. She added the vitamins and minerals that was missing from Leo's body into that pancake mix.It didn't change the look, the taste, the color.
This is my graduate student, Ashley Buschhorn. She was trying to capture a cactus that had been really weirdly burned only on one side.I'd often look up and see my colleague Mary Mathieson, and she ’d been taking the gear into these incredibly dangerous situations, determined to get the best scan possible.
This is my sister's good friend's equipment. She taught horseback riding at Will Rogers Park, and when the fires broke out, she rushed over to go rescue the horses,and then her own home burned, and everything she owned was also destroyed.
This was a particularly difficult moment because I was standing next to the wall that had collapsed over a bedroom, where I said goodbye to one of my best friends about a year earlier. She had died of cancer the next day.Her partner escaped with a small suitcase and a loaf of bread from their favorite bakery.
One of the girls in the study, her favorite animal was sloths. She loves sloths. She 'd been telling us all day how much she loves sloths.And so naturally, when she got hold of an Alexa, she wanted to learn more about sloths from Alexa.
There's nothing. And if your heart's not racing right now, it should be. She calls 911. Detective arrives.No sign of force.
And the girl's in the back. She 's bound, but she 's alive.They went on to go search the suspect's house and the nightmare got scarier.
But Tali remained calm. She looked the doctor right in the eye and said, "So what you're saying is that it's up to him?" "Yes," he said. "I suppose that's right.""Well, I can live with that," she said.
What Tali trusted was something inside of Nadav himself. She put her faith in the mystery of how we grow and heal.The energy that causes the cilia to beat, the map that tells our organs how to form.
The energy that causes the cilia to beat, the map that tells our organs how to form. She trusted the resilience of life.That somehow Nadav’s body would find a way to heal.
Mary wanted to stop drinking. She tried alcohol rehab, Alcoholics Anonymous, a medication called Antabuse.None of them worked for her.
Within weeks, Mary lost her taste for beer. She switched to white wine, and then she stopped drinking altogether.Many people talk about Ozempic as getting rid of the food noise inside their heads.
Suddenly, she had the mental space to make changes in her life that she had long wanted to. She started exercising. She improved her diet.She ended a difficult relationship.
She started exercising. She improved her diet.She ended a difficult relationship."People know how much GLP-1s affect your body," she told me.
In recent months, I have returned again and again to something that Mary told me. She said that GLP-1s enabled her to act not just on her immediate desire to stop drinking, but on her deeper desireto reinvent the person she wanted to be, to change her habits, her relationships, even how she saw herself.
to reinvent the person she wanted to be, to change her habits, her relationships, even how she saw herself. She gained a kind of freedom to live alongside her desires instead of being ruled by them."Because alcohol was no longer an issue," she told me, "I finally had the chance to think, what type of life do I want?"
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Kate is an introvert. She prefers asynchronous communication so that she can thoughtfully process her ideas.Kate’s communication style tag is: "Email for fastest response during the day.
My colleague Kelly, she was ghosting meeting invites until I asked what was going on. She told me that an agendaless meeting gave her anxiety, so she just didn't show up.Well we fixed that.
And on the repeat of the chorus, don't do the drum roll, but do do the hit and the -- Does that make sense? She 's amazing. So OK, that makes sense.And after that, we're going to go straight back to the violins, so be ready.
For example, “Would I be an asshole if I uninvited my mother-in-law to my baby shower?" The context here in the small print is “She ’s kind of mean to me. She makes these snarky jokes.” Some people asked for more information, a few people said "You're not the asshole," but the overwhelming consensus was "You are the asshole."The specific feedback was: "This is a nuclear-level response to a small issue."
And she used it to communicate in a way that she was needing to, and it became our livelihood. She supported our family with her sculpture.But it was like the art world was something very strange because she was also making the pottery that we ate out of.
But it was like the art world was something very strange because she was also making the pottery that we ate out of. She used her ability to craft earth to build our home, to grow our food.And so that utility and relationship with it was innate in all walks of our life.
She looked inside, and saw a cocoon.
She canceled trips, she worked straight over holiday breaks.
She started with cobalt 60, an isotope of cobalt where the nucleus has an intrinsic angular momentum, or spin.
She was arrested after tapping money from unknowing tourists in the busy streets of Rome.
She 'd set a fire to escape the police, and she 'd easily walk through it, safe inside her asbestos bodysuit.
She had buckets of it.
She was an idealistic woman, part of the Budding Peace Movement.
She is very good at making it not stick. Me, not so much.
She 's looking through the documentation, where did they consider quartering winds?
She 's just an undergraduate student and you guys are award-winning structural engineers.
She was the only one.
She never spoke to LeMessurier personally.
She never claimed to speak to LeMessurier personally.
She got special permission to attend lectures at the university, but they refused to admit her as an official student.
She became only the second woman in Germany to earn a PhD in mathematics, and she used this expertise to help Hilbert
She proved that anytime you have a continuous symmetry, you get a corresponding conservation law.
- She was so amazing.
She must be ultra light, and her blades must spin at over 2,400 rotations per minute to generate enough lift.
she takes off, only 120 years after the Wright brothers on Earth.
She hasn't died or toppled over, but now they have a new problem. Dust.
she 's alive!