Category: Recalibrate
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As a word, ‘woke’ is a culture war casualty. It once meant ‘pay attention, your life might depend on it’ is now tossed around like a slur—or worse, a joke.’Woke’ was originally a word of deep awareness and resistance in African-American vernacular; to stay woke meant survival, vigilance, and solidarity. But in recent years, it…
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Sometimes we fall so much in love with something, a subject of our desire so tantalizing, it redefines our entire life path. When it works out, and we set ourselves on our merry way, things look bright and the universe appears to bend to our will. Of course, physics do their thing and all of…
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Yesterday, I was looking up a word from my reading notes of Carl Sagan’s final book, Billions and Billions: adumbration. When I looked it up, I was given the verb ‘adumbrate,’ which seems to mean one of three things, according to Merriam Webster: The online editors also offer some helpful context: “Don’t throw shade our…