Category: People
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JK Rowling and the power of imagination
I’ve realized something as of late. I’m not who I thought I was. I’ve always self-identified as ‘someone who cared.’ Someone who meant to do decent things in the world, and as such, I got jobs that loosely fit that description. I’ve worked, for the last 10 years, at organizations I thought did “good” things…
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Infidel and agency
I recently read the book “Infidel” by Ayaan Hirschi Ali – and it definitely puts my trip in a different perspective. I’ve said this before, but I’ll say it again…I recognize that I’m insanely lucky to undergo a trip like the one I am taking. And, I’m not just lucky in that I currently have…
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Oxfam – It’s complicated
Oxfam, it’s complicated…People often said this at Oxfam, and simply put, it meant that the organization was, well, complicated. The inner workings of the organization, the day-to-day business of coordinating thousands of people in hundreds of places, all of whom were trying to do related, but different things – this made for a place that…
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My Jungian Shadow Self, the Remix
I was raised in the type of family where you did a number of things: 1. Got an education 2. Got some more education 3. Got a good job, then a better job, then an even better job, until you’d reached a ‘job pinnacle.’ 4. Work until you retire. Then work some more. (Mom, Dad,…
Sarah PecK 