Four Lessons From Your Anxious Brain
Pandemic life has saddled us with lots of conflicting emotions. Here’s how to cope with feelings of uncertainty and make a fresh start.
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Feeling unsettled? Anxious? Overwhelmed? Welcome to the summer of 2021.
I asked thousands of New York Times readers of all ages to share how they’re feeling right now. The most common answers revealed the mixed feelings of the past 14 months: unsettled, anxious, overwhelmed, frazzled, tired, hopeful, optimistic, stressful, exhausted, excited.
Some readers said just one word was not enough to describe how they’re feeling.
“Bored, anxious, hopeful all at once. Is there a word for that?” asked one reader.
New UB president called a young superstar in higher education circles
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BRIDGEPORT New UB President Danielle Wilken has lofty ambitions.
She wants to grow and elevate the University of Bridgeport on both a national and an international platform.
Following Goodwin University’s $32 million acquisition and accreditation of UB’s academic programs and real estate, a new Board of Trustees named Wilken, provost and dean of faculty at Goodwin, UB’s 12th president.
In an interview with Hearst Connecticut Media, the first-time university president shared her vision for UB, which embraces the school’s relationship with East Hartford’s Goodwin University.
On a recent afternoon behind a scruffy door in South London, remarkable alchemical transformations were taking place under the watchful eye of the painter Frank Bowling. Wearing industrial masks, a team of assistants brushed and dolloped ammonia, gold powder, acrylic gel and water onto a dripping canvas hung onto Bowling’s studio wall.
Looking dapper in a fedora and a green velvet jacket, the 87-year-old artist directed proceedings from a wheelchair in the center of the room.
“Put gel on the edges of the square. No, you’re putting it on the flat,” Bowling said, guiding the action on the canvas with a laser pointer. “Dust that with the gold. Brush the water all over.”
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