Bodies and boundaries

We read Julia Kasdorf’s lovely essay that begins with her memories of Mennonite community. In it she explores the ways in which being a self requires an other who can see one whole as it is impossible to do for one’s self. That insight gives a positive...

Good Neighbors?

02/09/2022 The first day of the “spring” semester in Borders and Empires. It was my first time with these students. We read Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall” (1914) and Darrel Alejandro Holnes, “Amending Wall.” The later makes...