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Continue reading →: October StarsIn a misty October orchard, a headmistress contemplates the stars and the dawning age of machinery. Between duty and desire, she reveals her deepest ambition: to create a technical college for young women, despite the risk of failure and ridicule.
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Continue reading →: What We Carry ForwardA psychiatrist examines what pride means when you’ve spent decades learning to dissolve the self. Not credentials or reputation, but something quieter: thirty years of steady showing up, inherited industriousness transformed into therapeutic architecture, and the courage to finally risk being ordinarily seen.
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Mollie Orshansky: The Government Analyst Whose Work Became Invisible Policy Infrastructure
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Continue reading →: Mollie Orshansky: The Government Analyst Whose Work Became Invisible Policy InfrastructureIn 1963, Mollie Orshansky created America’s poverty line – a formula so successful it became invisible infrastructure, erasing her name entirely. She discusses measuring deprivation, bureaucratic erasure, why her “temporary” thresholds lasted sixty years, and what happens when a woman’s achievement outlives her memory.
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Continue reading →: Among My FellowsA solitary man, long accustomed to isolation, ventures into a village tavern on an October evening and discovers an unexpected euphoria amongst the ordinary rituals of companionship. In the warmth, smoke, and din of voices, he confronts a profound question about belonging and what truly constitutes a life well-lived.
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Continue reading →: The Work BetweenAfter yesterday’s confession about avoiding intimacy through professional competence, a Sunday of ordinary community activities reveals what I’ve actually been working on: learning to show up not as Dr Bennett, but as Catherine – insufficient, fumbling, vulnerably present without credentials or protective distance.
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Sophia Brahe: The Invisible Astronomer Whose Eyes Mapped the Cosmos Newton Explained
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Continue reading →: Sophia Brahe: The Invisible Astronomer Whose Eyes Mapped the Cosmos Newton ExplainedSophia Brahe’s astronomical observations achieved unprecedented accuracy, enabling Kepler’s laws and Newton’s gravitational theory. Yet her contributions vanished behind her brother’s legacy. In this interview, she recounts cold nights measuring Mars, familial erasure, and why precision matters more than genius when building scientific truth.
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Continue reading →: Worn SmoothAn archaeologist pauses between sites to record bitter thoughts on legacy, institutional decay, and what remains. Her inherited trowel outlasts departments; her dented thermos outlasts certainty. In 2018’s fractured landscape, she excavates margins while wondering what future layers will reveal.
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Continue reading →: Hidden CurrentsA psychiatrist confesses her deepest fear: that thirty years of helping others navigate intimacy has been an elaborate way to avoid risking it herself. On being terrified of ordinariness, hiding behind professional competence, and the courage required for undefended presence.
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Mary Jackson: From Segregated Courtroom to NASA’s First Black Female Engineer
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Continue reading →: Mary Jackson: From Segregated Courtroom to NASA’s First Black Female EngineerMary Jackson petitioned a segregated Virginia court for engineering courses, became NASA’s first Black female engineer, authored groundbreaking supersonic aerodynamics research – then accepted demotion to dismantle barriers for others. She discusses boundary layer physics, strategic resistance, and why recognition came too late.
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Continue reading →: The Unopened LockAt an October crossroads in 1772, a solitary traveller contemplates the heavy burden of feeling displaced from his own age. Carrying keys that open no meaningful doors, he reflects upon friendship, longing, and the peculiar isolation of truly belonging nowhere.
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