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Jennifer L. Holberg

Let It Snow

This morning I met with a large group of my university’s incoming first year students for an orientation session; tomorrow (as you are reading this),

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The prophet at 85

Last week was Wendell Berry’s 85th birthday, so it seems like the right moment to feature a couple of poems from his large output. Berry

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“More to Be Christian With”

There’s an old book by Henry Zylstra, Testament of Vision, that contains a assertion that I come back to again and again: literature should give

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Graced with the ordinary

Many of you are doubtlessly familiar with Mary Oliver’s “The Summer’s Day”–with its moving invitation to attentiveness and to relishing one’s “one wild and precious

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The Price of Tomatoes

I may have moved to a condo in recent years, but I still have a wonderful little hanging pot of tomatoes on my back deck.

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The Slightest Hint of Green

I had the delight this past semester to teach a “gen ed” global literature class that I nicknamed “Epic Journeys.” That means we read lots

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The worthiness of the work

It’s Teacher Appreciation Week, so I’ve been thinking not only of the many extraordinary teachers I’ve had in my own life but about the very

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Dusty Endings

Though Easter was a huge deal in my family, we never did Ash Wednesday when I was growing up. No service, no imposition of ashes.

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