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Advent Word: Encourage

Earlier this week, my friend Rose sent me an email, wondering if I still had a copy of a poem I had written for a remembrance ceremony about “gifts.” She knew I had written and that we had read it … Continue reading

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Hope, part 3 (the gift)

All I wanted for Christmas that year was a Rubik’s cube. Now, that sounds like a ridiculously cheap and easy holiday gift, compared with iPads and Xboxes dominating lists today. But, in 1981, it really was all I wanted. Purchasing … Continue reading

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Radical Hospitality and Kimchee

During the years I was enrolled in my PhD program, student office space was a valuable commodity around which a whole culture of room assignment had emerged. When each cohort was admitted, we all shared one big room, each entering … Continue reading

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