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Saturday bike ride through Al Reem Island’s maze-like half-finished canal ways with Breakfast in America 🎶🚴🏻‍♀️ 🏖 #abudhabi #casadolcecasa #supertramp #alreemisland #islandlife #uae #abudhabi #construction #reemcentralpark #coast #biking #cycling #bike #canals #breakfastinamerica

☀️Yassas, Aegean Sea! Windy morning climb up Mount Lycabettus ☁️🌊 “Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time.” #zoranealehurston #theireyeswerewatchinggod My favorite first line! #greece #athens #mountains #sea #travelgram #climbing #aegean #mediterranean #city #blue #americanliterature #literaturequotes #goodmorning #mountlycabettus #worktrip #mynyuad #nyu #athens #athena

Today’s poem, Wylie’s Prophecy, is the perfect companion for my most important goal of 2019: incorporating more “Deep Work” into my daily life. “Deep Work” is Cal Newport’s term for the activity of focusing without distraction on a cognitively demanding task, not dissimilar to the Pomodoro Technique, but updated to consider how “attention residue” (what happens to us after our “quick checks” to other tabs and electronics) affects us and our long-term goals and thinking. Could you imagine being in the middle of Wylie’s alder wood, hidden in a hut? It could seem like death at first (and in this poem, probably yes)—or it could be something better—time for Deep Work. Also, shout-out to the Plato notebook from @thikigreece 📚😎 #elinorwylie #newyear #greece #athens #deepwork #reading #poetry #calnewport #selfimprovement #benfranklin #plato #lovequotes #notebook #amreading #poetrycommunity #determination #travelgram #embracealittleboredom #healthymindandbody #penandpaper #poetsofinstagram #bookshelf

By the middle of the 16th Century, Ottoman law dictated that all subjects of the sultan were forbidden to wear European fashion. Here are some fascinating garments of the Jews of Salonika, including silks from throughout the Ottoman Empire & embellishments that distinguish Sephardic Jews from other peoples of the empire. #greece #athens #jewishmuseum #fashionhistory #jewish #greeks #ottomanempire #ageofempires #history #travelgram #studyabroad #explore #fashion #costumes #bridaldress

#streetart #athens #portrait #achilles #greece #walking #travelgram #mediterranean #citylife #vamp #vampire

New #poem in Issue 17 of @postscriptmag ...I wrote this poem a year ago when feeling weary about the simplification of ideas surrounding cultural appropriation and widespread misunderstanding of cultural authenticity following a controversy where a non-Chinese woman wore a qípáo to her high school prom in the U.S.: “it is just embouchure a blowing by congo river basin slave passenger ships django, hugh hefner dressing in the history of turkish tobacco it’s all storyville and some people will know the story and some people never will like manchus giving up their wind chime language” #samanthaneugebauer #poetsofinstagram #cultural #poetry #writersofinstagram #bookshelf #usa #america #culturalappropriation #culture #culturalappreciation #identity #americanprom #americanpoetry #currentevents #poems #postscript #abudhabi #uae #shanghaipeacehotel #china #shanghai #history #literature #artdeco

✈️ 🇬🇷 New January course in Greece! When I was 20, I was selected to travel to Greece with the @nyugallatin Dean’s Honor Society, and I am so excited to return as an instructor and trip supervisor, exploring the themes of global history and global heritage management through experiential education while discussing ideas concerning the “universal museum”, “golden ages”, and silenced narratives. #greece #histories #education #democracy #travelgram #newyear #highereducation #firstyearstudents #mynyuad #bookstagram #dreamjob #bookshelf #history #museums #athens #heritage #culture #nation #identity #abudhabi #uae #travelingwoman #education #nyugallatin 🛸

#haydenplanetarium ✨ Who made you the center of the universe? 🎶🌜My favorite place to go alone when I lived in NYC: Hayden Planetarium. See their most recent show: Dark Matter with Neil deGrasse Tyson. My borrowed philosophy too: “For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.” #neildegrassetyson #planetarium #uppereastside #universe #stars #nyc #manhattan #wintertime ❄️❄️

Warhol & Lobster Roll 🦞🦀🦐 ... the first Warhol retrospective organized by a U.S. institution since 1989; From A to B and Back Again. 🥫🥫🥫 What would Warhol think of Instagram? #whitneymuseum #manhattan #andywarhol #lobster #maine #lukeslobster #nyc #mao #rorschach #rorschachtest #warhol #artistsoninstagram #americanart #fromatobandbackagain #media #usa #meatpackingdistrict

#trainread 🚂 #philly -> #nyc From Elizabeth Anderson (what it means to be free, via @newyorkermag) to Dombek’s inquiry into the narcissism “epidemic” and the exploitation of the term. “Vanity and idealization are the narcissist’s special qualities...sharing [with those] suffering from Borderline Personality Disorder...a self-esteem so fragile it is always under threat. To protect themselves they do something called ‘splitting’: they divide the world into good and bad and place the person or institution perceived to have caused the pain into the ‘bad’ category, never to be trusted again.” #amreading #travelingwoman #kristendombek #narcissism #modernity #societyandculture #bookshelf #train #publictransportation

Welcome 2019: new goals, espresso, milky tea, cozy sweaters, and books from the Strand. ☺️ “Every act of communication is a miracle of translation...and yet, whatever is lost in translation in the long journey of my thoughts through the maze of civilization to your mind, I think you do understand me, and you think you do understand me. Our minds manage to touch, if but briefly and imperfectly. Does that not make the universe seem just a bit kinder, a bit brighter, a bit warmer and more human?” #kenliu #thepapermenagerie #shortstories #thinkcoffee #nyc #manhattan #newyear #amreading #translation #thefish #davidfosterwallace #coffeeandtea ☕️☕️

🔮🧬 Party Cats 🧬🔮 House of Yes 💎💎 #happynewyear #happynewyear2019 #nyc #houseofyes #cheers #newyorkfuckingcity #wu 🎵🎶 #goldparty

Visiting my favorite storytelling museum, NYC’s Tenement Museum, with their new tour, Under One Roof, which explores three generations of US immigrant stories—Jewish families post-WWII, Puerto Rican families in the 1960s, and Chinese families after ‘65 when President Lyndon Johnson signed the Hart-Celler immigration act, abolishing the race-based immigrant quote system (from the 1920s). As he said then (and we should remember), “We can now believe that it will never again shadow the gate to the American Nation with the twin barriers of prejudice and privilege.” What a great goal for 2019 for all our hearts and minds. #nyc #americandream #lowereastside #happynewyear #allarewelcome #immigration #nationalism #american #tenementmuseum #storytelling #les #usa #puertorico #hongkong #cantonese #jewishamerican #chineseamerican #taiwaninusa #newyearseve #museum #history ✨

🎈Wu & Sam 🖤 @courtneycarecrowder 百年好合 #chicago #wedding #taiwaninusa #bridgeportartcenter #illinois #windycity #winter #flowers #cheers #celebrate #五

When a journalist gets married... newspaper flowers and program. 🗞🍸🗞🌷🗞 #chicago #bridgeportartcenter #journalist #flowers #bridesmaids #nyualum #usa #newspaper #amreading #cheese #thenewyorker #davidsedaris #wedding #bridetobe

@courtneycarecrowder ‘s rehearsal dinner & a bitty NYU ‘10 reunion 🥂 #littleitaly #chicago #pompeii #bridesmaids #nyualumni #gallatin #cheers #bridetobe #holidays

“We ran as if to meet the moon/ That slowly dawned behind the trees,/ The barren boughs without the leaves,/ Without the birds, without the breeze.” Some American poetry for Wu’s first trip to the USA ✨🌙 #robertfrost London —> Chicago ✈️#publictransportation #poetry #chicago #cityscape #citystreets #metro #palmerhouse #frost #winter #america #moon #dawn #walking #architecturetourchicago #artdeco

✨ Chicago ✨”The distance is nothing when one has motive.” #janeausten #prideandprejudice #chicago #gettingstronger 👏🏻 @gentner_chiphi #friendship #strongbackbone #kahlo #shirleyryanabilitylab

For my growing children’s book collection: published in 1970, The Witch’s Christmas, a story of a witch who saves Christmas after Santa collides with a spaceship, and she rescues Santa, his reindeer, and the astronauts! #vintage #illustration #cliffordthebigreddog #moonlanding #thewitchschristmas #childrensbooks #amreading #witches #1960s #1970s #bookshelf #christmas #holidays #normanbridwell thanks @robindneugebauer #philadelphia #philly #creativity #imagination #putamanonthemoon #moon #witch ✨✨✨

Merry Christmas! ✨🌷Flower Press with a design from Sibylle von Olfers’ children’s book When the Root Children Wake Up, first published in Germany in 1906. Bring me flowers and leaves to press from your corner of the world. 🍂🍃🌺 #flowers #rootchildren #flowerstagram #fleur #childrensbooks #germantales #christmas #philadelphia #feliznavidad #happyholidays #newyearsgoals #nature #flowerpress #flowerpressing #philly

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Samantha Neugebauer in Uncategorized February 5, 2017 39 Words

100 days 100 short stories:: story 55

story: One Day A Week

author: Mohammad Al Murr

year: 2008

where: Reem Island after the blackout

note: I can only say ‘Rashidiya’ like the metro man

a line: “Five days a week she passed in a torment of anticipation.”

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