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Month: April 2020

In Praise of Mixed Feelings

April 20, 2020 by Mary Vermillion
in praise of mixed feeings

One practice that is helping me through the pandemic so far is the effort to embrace both/and thinking, paradox, and mixed feelings.

Categories Mixed Feelings Tags bibliotherapy, change, COVID-19, gender transition, pandemic, quarantine 9 Comments

REMAKING ACHILLES: Poetry by Carol Tyx

April 4, 2020 by Mary Vermillion

In this poetry collection about a prison protest, Carol Tyx shows the full range of what we humans are capable of, our worst and our best.

Categories Reading, Social Justice, Teaching Tags change, inspiration, Mount Mercy University, poetry, service learning, teaching creative writing 8 Comments

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