College reunions won’t necessarily bury you in regret. They can make you feel less alone.
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Tag Archives: D. H. Lawrence
College Reunions: Feeling Understood
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Like a Cat Asleep on a Chair, O Lord
In “Pax,” D. H. Lawrence echoes the 23rd Psalm only substitutes a cat for a sheep.
Poetry to Read at a Hippy Wedding
Today is my wedding anniversary so you get to hear how I wove poetry into the ceremony. W. B. Yeats, Archibald MacLeish, D.H. Lawrence, and the Song of Solomon all made appearances. Get ready for time travel back to a very different era.
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Can We Imagine Another’s Pain?
In Friday’s post I mentioned how we read and discussed the first few pages of Elaine Scarry’s The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World in our most recent salon, held to support colleague Alan Paskow as he battles with cancer. Scarry claims that language is inadequate when it comes to physical pain so […]
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