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Diving into May Flowers

By Robin Bates | Published: May 10, 2021

An Oliver poem and a Murdoch observation for the month of May.

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Diving into May’s Spiritual Honey

By Robin Bates | Published: May 5, 2019

Monday I was traveling yesterday so here’s a Mary Oliver poem I’ve shared before, once in connection with Pentecost (here). Note how Oliver derives spiritual sustenance from nature, even as she simultaneously emphasizes “the flourishing of the physical body.” For Oliver, there is no separation between the physical and the spiritual realms. May May, and […]

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A Time To Gather Spiritual Honey

By Robin Bates | Published: May 18, 2018

Mary Oliver love flowers because of their origins in dark places and for their ability to make luminous our own dark places.

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Chaucer’s Squire Meets Tennyson’s May Queen

By Robin Bates | Published: May 6, 2015

Love is in the May air. As I look at the College students hand in hand, I think of the men as Chaucerian squires, the women as Tennysonian May queens.

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Blossoms Storm out of the Darkness

By Robin Bates | Published: May 9, 2014

A perfect May poem from Mary Oliver.

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Life Storming Out of the Darkness

By Robin Bates | Published: May 23, 2010

Spiritual Sunday Today Western Christians observe Pentecost, the day 50 days after Jesus’ resurrection and 10 days after his ascension into heaven.  Pentecost celebrates the moment when the disciplines saw themselves surrounded by tongues of fire and felt lifted up by the Holy Spirit.  In the Book of John (14:16) Jesus is reported to have promised the […]

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