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Hostility to Hospitality

We associate hospitality with the stuffy dinner party served with the silverware that rarely leaves its cabinet in the dining room.

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Large Crowds Went Out to See

Eighteen saffron-robed Buddhist monks walked through my town. I am deeply moved that men from Loas and Taiwan and Vietnam risk drawing attention to themselves

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Typing out my favorite poems

When you follow the thread sentence by sentence it opens itself to your imagination, like a good expository sermon can open a biblical text.

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The Cartography of Loss

What if our varying experiences of grief are not progressive points along a line of time but places to which we travel and in which

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