Year
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In the Jewish community, the only time of
year
that we prostrate fully to the ground is during the high holy days.
But a
year
and a half later her boy nonetheless died of his cancer.
Almost 20 billion times each year, a person walks into a doctor's office, and that person becomes a patient.
The first, on the professional side: I'm sure many people coming up to the end of the
year
are giving or getting annual performance reviews.
You look back over your successes over the year, your "opportunities for growth."
So I want you to pretend it's the end of next
year.
You're giving yourself a performance review, and it has been an absolutely amazing
year
for you professionally.
So you can write next
year'
s performance review now.
But these letters serve a purpose, which is that they tell your friends and family what you did in your personal life that mattered to you over the
year.
So this
year'
s kind of done, but I want you to pretend it's the end of next year, and it has been an absolutely amazing
year
for you and the people you care about.
So you can write next
year'
s family holiday letter now.
And now, between the performance review and the family holiday letter, we have a list of six to ten goals we can work on in the next
year.
And we only published this a
year
ago, but since then other labs have independently confirmed this effect.
Tell your daughters of this year, how we woke needing coffee but discovered instead cadavers strewn about our morning papers, waterlogged facsimiles of our sisters, spouses, small children.
Say to your baby of this
year
when she asks, as she certainly should, tell her it was too late coming.
Admit even in the
year
we leased freedom, we didn't own it outright.
But speak to your girls of this wartime, a
year
preceded by a score of the same, so as in two decades before, we wiped our eyes, laced caskets with flags, evacuated the crime scene of the club, caterwauled in the street, laid our bodies on the concrete against the outlines of our fallen, cried, "Of course we mattered," chanted for our disappeared.
The women wept this
year.
In the same year, we were ready.
The
year
we lost our inhibition and moved with courageous abandon was also the
year
we stared down barrels, sang of cranes in skies, ducked and parried, caught gold in hijab, collected death threats, knew ourselves as patriots, said, "We're 35 now, time we settled down and found a running mate," made road maps for infant joy, shamed nothing but fear, called ourselves fat and meant, of course, impeccable.
This year, we were women, not brides or trinkets, not an off-brand gender, not a concession, but women.
Remind them that the
year
has passed to be docile or small.
When she asks you of this year, your daughter, whether your offspring or heir to your triumph, from her comforted side of history teetering towards woman, she will wonder and ask voraciously, though she cannot fathom your sacrifice, she will hold your estimation of it holy, curiously probing, "Where were you?
What did you do for women in the
year
it was time?
What, in the
year
we said time's up, what did you do with your privilege?
Because in 1991, which is the
year
that Jasmine was born and the Soviet Union fell, these two nations engaged in a project that genuinely does seem incredible today in the truest sense of that word, which is that the US sent cash to the Russians when they needed it most, to secure loose nuclear materials and to employ out-of-work nuclear scientists.
Let's pretend it's the
year
2030, and you're a parent.
And if you're still kind of thinking in sci-fi mode, consider that the world of science had a huge shock earlier this year, and the public largely doesn't even know about it.
And there was another development this
year
that resonates in this area, and that happened not so far from here over in the UK.
So depending on the decisions we make in the next few months, the next
year
or so, if designer baby number one is born, within a few decades, there could well be millions of genetically modified humans.
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