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  • Lessons from the classroom: reflecting on 27 years of teaching

    Lessons from the classroom: reflecting on 27 years of teaching

    Every moment and every being we encounter can be our teacher if we are educable. Yet not all teachers offer the same quality of instruction. I love asking folks if you could go back and…

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    • by Leaf
    • Posted on July 27, 2023
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  • A Lifetime

    A Lifetime

    On this fiftieth anniversary of Harold’s death, I offer two poems, one from 1992 and the other from 2022. Revisiting the fields of promise, listening to Harold If I could write to you what would…

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    • by Leaf
    • Posted on August 20, 2022
    • 1 Comment on A Lifetime
  • On Reckoning

    On Reckoning

    I teach a college course called “Until We Reckon,” inspired by the title of Danielle Sered’s fine book of the same name that contains the best chapter on accountability I’ve read. In her book, Until…

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    • by Leaf
    • Posted on May 30, 2021May 30, 2021
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  • Holy Ground

    Holy Ground

    The letter above arrived first in my email inbox as a series of scanned pages sent by a gracious intermediary who asked if I would like the hard copy as well. I had no idea…

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    • by Leaf
    • Posted on December 19, 2020
    • 2 Comments on Holy Ground
  • Video version of “On Redemption” featuring music by Steve Schuch.

    Video version of “On Redemption” featuring music by Steve Schuch.

    • by Leaf
    • Posted on July 1, 2020
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  • A daughter of the trees reflects on the danger of property: an elegy, an homage, a prayer.

    A daughter of the trees reflects on the danger of property: an elegy, an homage, a prayer.

    When European colonizers came to this continent many centuries ago, the indigenous people here did not construe ground, trees, sky, water, animals as property—something objectified and quantifiable for the purpose of possession. They understood belonging…

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    • by Leaf
    • Posted on May 31, 2020June 1, 2020
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  • On Redemption

    On Redemption

    As humans, we inevitably experience harm: we feel hurt, we get hurt, and we hurt others. We free ourselves from this experience not by imagining we can escape harm but knowing we can heal it—…

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    • by Leaf
    • Posted on May 11, 2020
    • 15 Comments on On Redemption
  • My Grandmother’s Journal

    My Grandmother’s Journal

    I began this piece over twenty years ago and returned to it in 2014. I re-read it recently before sending it to a cousin, the namesake of my grandmother who is curious about the woman…

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    • by Leaf
    • Posted on April 13, 2020
    • 3 Comments on My Grandmother’s Journal
  • Listening to the body of the Earth, Passover 2020

    Listening to the body of the Earth, Passover 2020

    Drizzle punctuates the dun sky, appearing far less vernal than April 9th might wish. A cerulean ribbon aloft tender shoots of daffodils might yield more cheer but for Maundy Thursday and Passover combined, the weather…

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    • by Leaf
    • Posted on April 9, 2020
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  • Listening to the tree of my own knowing

    Listening to the tree of my own knowing

    I have never been a fan of the annual physical. Back in 1993, my partner at the time urged me to see her gynecologist. “You are long overdue an exam,” she scolded, so reluctantly I…

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    • by Leaf
    • Posted on April 2, 2020April 2, 2020
    • 2 Comments on Listening to the tree of my own knowing
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