My family all commented on how I talked different, so I had that strange feeling of not quite belonging yet wanting to be there because they were my family.
Unfortunately, balance sheets chalk up items like these as liabilities, all with dollar figures attached, and there's nothing at first to list on the asset side but airy stuff like "heightened involvement" and "a sense of belonging". Yet the longer-term results exceeded our expectations.
He said that "They are killing us, so it is hard to keep calm…in reality I am dying inside". Stafford Smith said: "Shaker's own government has been saying that they want him back home to his family where he belongs; yet unfortunately there are subversive forces even in the UK who have a different agenda.
Reserved, elegant, self-contained, Maryam wants to belong, yet is unable to relinquish her outsiderness; after four decades in America she still yearns for Iran the homely chatter of her long-dead aunts, the tinkle of the fountain in the family courtyard.
Because beneath the sex and the drugs, men are seeking out chemsex parties and chillouts to belong – yet these bonds often seep away as soon as the drugs wear off.
Maybe we questioned our fit in the world, as Oscar-winning screenwriter Graham Moore recently described in explaining his teenage suicide attempt: "I felt weird and I felt different and I felt like I did not belong". Yet, in those moments of isolation and disconnection, creativity can be our salvation.
Looking back, that seems to sum up the paradoxical sense of belonging and yet not belonging that defined the Northern Irish Catholic identity.
"Home" should be a sanctuary and place of belonging -- yet, for these children, it meant exclusion and pain.
In March, paleontologist Meave Leakey reported the discovery in Kenya of a 3.5-million-year-old skull and other fossils belonging to yet another new genus and species, Kenyanthropus platyops.
It will be fascinating to see how convergent evolution has implemented the requirements of HNL catalysis into enzymes belonging to yet other fold families, such as the hydroxynitrile lyase from flax, which belongs to the family of Zn-dependent alcohol dehydrogenases (44).
In another, a message flashes across the screen: "We believe no matter who you are, where you're from, who you love, or who you worship, we all belong". Yet another ad champions the theme of girls and Stem (science, technology, engineering, and math) education and celebrates a girl-centered technology organization.
