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I keep thinking about the regional disparity of standards and expectations.
Here in the Toronto area, we have many immigrants from Asia. It wasn't too long ago when I learned was a "Chinese F" was....
...a B grade.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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