Tag: thanksgiving

  • On Technology, Thanksgiving, and Patience

    On Technology, Thanksgiving, and Patience

    [Originally written in 2007 for a campus publication while I was in medical school; it has remained disquietingly relevant.  It will be posted on the ESN blog tomorrow.] We have become impatient, unfulfilled, and perpetually fixated on the future. We have filled our lives with so much hardware and noise that it makes us wonder if we too will…

  • Bad People and Thanksgiving

    As per my count, there have been at least three shootings within my three block radius in the past three months.  One resulted in a death.  The first one happened at an intersection I had driven through literally a minute beforehand; I heard the gunshots nearby after getting home and, after seeing people running in…