{"id":2594,"date":"2018-03-05T00:00:49","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T05:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=2594"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:45:39","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:45:39","slug":"march-5-mary-oliver-returning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2018\/03\/05\/march-5-mary-oliver-returning\/","title":{"rendered":"March 5 &#8211;  Mary Oliver returning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday March 5, 2018<\/p>\n<p>For some reason, Mary Oliver has not visited this post in a while. \u00a0This morning, I found her writing alive on the doorstep and looked for language from her that is new to me. \u00a0Good stuff too, for this morning when my campus settles into Spring Break (less traffic on the Mc Nichols campus; \u00a0some daring adventures we call ASB, Alternative Spring Break, in some places that might welcome students and student-mentors. \u00a0 \u201cCome and spend some time with us,\u201d \u00a0the places say; \u00a0 \u201crisk meeting people who are new to you, \u00a0risk imagining people older than you, \u00a0younger than you, \u00a0more wounded than you?\u201d \u00a0Perhaps not; there are lots of wounds to go around but perhaps people whose wounds smell different.<\/p>\n<p>Alternative Spring Break can become a bed of stories that surprise you, and when you return to the McNichol\u2019s campus next week, you can surprise some of us who\u2019ve been here prepping for the last weeks of Term 2.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what I found in Mary O\u2019s 2016 book,\u00a0<u>Upstream<\/u>. \u00a0 Reading it out loud offers some of Mary O\u2019s own surprises.<\/p>\n<p>Have a blest week.<\/p>\n<p>john st sj<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today\u2019s Post<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the winter I am writing about, there was much darkness. Darkness of nature, darkness of event, darkness of the spirit. The sprawling darkness of not knowing.<\/p>\n<p>We speak of the light of reason. I would speak here of the darkness of the world, and the light of\u2014\u2014\u2014. But I don\u2019t know what to call it. Maybe hope. Maybe faith, but not a shaped faith\u2014only, say, a gesture, or a continuum of gestures. But probably it is closer to hope, that is more active, and far messier than faith must be. Faith, as I imagine it, is tensile, and cool, and has no need of words. Hope, I know, is a fighter and a screamer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From Upstream:<br \/>\nSelected essays<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2018\/03\/MaryOliver.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2595\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2018\/03\/MaryOliver.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"121\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2014\/04\/Mary-Oliver1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-525\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2014\/04\/Mary-Oliver1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"257\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mary Oliver b. September 10, 1935<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mary_Oliver\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mary_Oliver<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday March 5, 2018 For some reason, Mary Oliver has not visited this post in a while. \u00a0This morning, I found her writing alive on the doorstep and looked for language from her that is new to me. \u00a0Good stuff &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2018\/03\/05\/march-5-mary-oliver-returning\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11641],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2596,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594\/revisions\/2596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}