Showing posts with label Mary Oliver. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mary Oliver. Show all posts
Friday, January 18, 2019

Celebrating Mary Oliver & Asking: Do We Want to Be the Kind of People Celebrating Mary Oliver, or the Kind Celebrating Karen Pence & John Finnis?

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That's the big question, the one the world throws at you each morning, "Here you are, alive. Would you like to make a comment?...
Monday, July 28, 2014

In the News: Sixth Mass Extinction of Species Now Underway

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In her review of Elizabeth Kolbert's The Sixth Extinction (NY: Henry Holt, 2014), Louise Rubacky notes that Kolbert's thesis...
Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Photographer Isa Leshko on Elderly Animals

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Friday, January 4, 2013

New Year's Advice to Young People Struggling with Questions about Sexual Orientation: You Are Not the Problem and You Count

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Christmas came, and the year has turned, and something is on my heart to share. As I noted on Christmas day , the holiday times--the ...
Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Journal Entry from the Past: The Challenge of Hearing the Scriptures in the Churches Today

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Another journal entry: this one is from 11 Aug. 1997.  I'm commenting on Mary Oliver's poetry, with its constant intrusion of...
Friday, April 23, 2010

For National Poetry Month: Mary Oliver's "Some Questions You Might Ask"

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For National Poetry Month and for Earth Day: Is the soul solid, like iron? Or is it tender and breakable, like the wings of a moth...
Wednesday, April 14, 2010

For National Poetry Month: Mary Oliver's "The Journey"

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And for National Poetry Month, another poem—this from Mary Oliver’s 1986 volume Dream Work : One day you finally knew what you had to...