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The End of A Glimpse of Starlight—and a Beginning
Dear friends, the day has come. It’s time to retire this little corner of the internet. I started A Glimpse of Starlight almost 10 years ago, a high-schooler who apparently had enough time to post three times a week in the beginning days of the blog. (Anyone remember Fireside Fridays??) Now in some ways I’ve…
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Stranger in a Strange Land: Israel, Pt. 1
When I left Israel in April, everyone told me I would be processing it for months, even years. I didn’t want to believe them. I wanted it to be a nice tidy package by the end of summer: here’s what I learned, here’s how I grew, my three-point essay, my expert reflections on the conflict.…
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on writing
Brand-new satin smooth paper pad in one hand, firm rod of pen in the other: This is who I want to be, and want is a word that starts too weak and ends too scant For this phototropic force bending my very bones to the light of words, wonderful words. I hold words in too…