Tag Archives: "When Death Comes"

Ted Lasso and Mary Oliver??

By Robin Bates | Published: October 11, 2026

Ted Lasso ends season four with a VoiceOver reciting Mary Oliver’s “When Death Comes.” I explore why.

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R.I.P. Mary Oliver, Bride of Amazement

By Robin Bates | Published: January 18, 2019

Friday Mary Oliver, who died yesterday, may have been America’s favorite poet. I taught her Pulitzer Prize-winning American Primitive for over 20 years in a nature-focused Introduction to Literature class and so have seen up close her impact on readers. When death has entered my own life, I have often turned to Oliver’s poetry. For […]

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From Spiritual Hunger to Obesity Epidemic

By Robin Bates | Published: August 1, 2010

Spiritual Sunday My wife Julia has been telling me about a book that she’s reading, Geneen Roth’s Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything. The thesis of the book seems to be that overeating, like other compulsions and obsessions, is a means of escaping a spiritual emptiness. Or to put it another […]

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