Tag: teaching
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On Writing about Childhood….
November 10, 2025 At my mother’s eulogy, I told the story of a childhood spent playing in the woods and brook by our home in Massachusetts. Everywhere lay the possibility of adventure with days spent skating on the frozen twists and turns of the forest brook, catching polliwogs in the spring, building a backyard zoo,…
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The Shrines We Make
August 30, 2025 In her poem “Sometimes,” Mary Oliver gives three simple instructions on how to live life: “Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.” In our world there is plenty to pay attention to. That is the easy part. The harder thing is to be astonished by what we see, and not become complacent…
