Activities of Tom Mair

Red, tan, pink, cream,
The soft pastel colors of the city's towering Western mountains
Descend and merge
Into the neighborhood's house's roofs
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(in response to Sanju Paul's drawing titled 'unbowed')
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I am looking at a picture that makes me want to coin this new word.
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Gimme an 'M'!
The M stands for 'Massive, ' because a huge amount of information is being processed at every moment in the body.

Gimme an 'E'!
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It's a wonderful timeless poem/commentary about the topic

of hyperdiscuplined vs emergent creativity type of lifestyle.
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- - -after reading WARP SPEED by Anais Vionet, a pre-med undergrad, in which she contemplates the challenges of following a career path laid out by her mother (a true tiger mom) . These challenges include an upcoming two-month summer internship, during which she will 'shadow' her mentor, who is a prominent neuro-surgeon
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EVEN though it's doable, you're letting yourself in for a pretty formidable undertaking. All that knowledge you'll acquire will amplify your reach like a cyborg, maybe like a power-assisted exoskeleton. It's good to get a sense of who the undifferentiated you is, while you're still pour-able.
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