Category: Mev Puleo
“What a Community!” Reading The Book of Mev by Jean Durel
My friend Jean sent me the following… Have so loved The Book of Mev — even though my heart was breaking at times and tears were streaming down my face. Of course I knew the end,…
Activating the Dead
When people who know one another have lived in the same landscape for a long time, they are surrounded by reminders of the dead in one another’s faces and in the landscape itself. In such…
Share the Wealth with Gabriela Keator: Recalculating
If the past year has taught me anything, it is the fact that it is incredibly important to run towards things that are life-giving, even if those things look very different than previously expected. I…
Hard to Believe It’s Been Thirty Years…
And glad to know the Mev Puleo Program is an agent of remembrance.
Recipe for Happiness in Khabarovsk or Anyplace by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
One grand boulevard with trees with one grand café in sun with strong black coffee in very small cups One not necessarily very beautiful man or woman who loves you One fine day
Powerless
The following is an excerpt from part 2 of The Book of Mev. By mid-December, Mev had grown very quiet. I’d estimated she was knocked out for 20 hours a day. Was she asleep? …
Share the Wealth with Brittany, Julia, and Suzy: Reflections from the 2017 Mev Puleo Program
We–Brittany Butler (junior), Suzy Kickham (sophomore), and Julia Nouse (sophomore)–spent 10 weeks studying liberation theology and living in community in Nicaragua this past summer. Now, after six months back in the states, lessons we learned…
Hair/2 (Letting Go/2)
The following is from The Book of Mev…. Hair/2 (Letting Go/2) The next day we met with Dr. Friedberg, who recommended we see a couple of neurosurgeons to see what could be done about the…
How to Have Fun
Mev taught me something very important: She taught me that when you go to Ted Drewes you could mix all different kinds of frozen custard flavors together. I would never have dreamed of some of…