Faces
I wrote last year of the ‘third way,’ and of the daily living being the test of sumud. It is a test I failed, perhaps because I didn’t have the kind of hope necessary for…
Photography as a Way of Life
for Oliver, Cami, and Julie Sebastião Salgado, From my Land to the Planet Contrasto, 2014 I first heard the name of Sebastião Salgado from Mev in the early 1990s. She esteemed him more than any…
A Visit with Fernando Cardenal by Bryan Melcher
Bryan Melcher received a Mev Puleo Scholarship to study and work in Nicaragua this past summer. We met up this week at Café Ventana and he shared some of his stories. He mentioned he and…
Share the Wealth with SLU Puleo Scholars: Learning a Theology of Accompaniment
Three students from Saint Louis University will share stories of growth, challenges, and joy about their summer studying liberation theology and accompanying the people that they encountered in Nicaragua. Meg Buckley is a senior studying…
When Grades Are Everything
Dear Henry Once I had a student who was my age Shameeka Smith was in her second marriage Getting her BA And taking good care of herself She appreciated the class Because we wrote freely…
Leah and Wangari
In this morning’s class, we read the passages below from Wangari Maathai’s memoir, Unbowed. Leah then spoke about her country of Kenya and answered our many questions. She told us that when she was a…
Raw, Humbling, Challenging by Meg Buckley
I am drawn to the Mev Puleo scholarship because it has been something that has weighed on my heart ever since hearing of its existence. I stumbled across The Book of Mev this past summer,…
Share the Wealth with Emma Shaw
Death is not the antithesis of life but rather the teacher of life. It has been my true honor to accompany individuals and families as they face the fear, pain, peace, and inevitability of saying…
Where Is She Now?
Alegria; Pará, Brazil; 1989
We Are Broken
At last, a little quiet and stillness. Judy Gallagher and her daughter Sarah brought over the evening’s delicious dinner. With a candle I had lit, Mev and I sat at the table, she in her…