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Mary Oliver: The Essays
Mondays, May 6–May 20 (3 sessions)
11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. (Hybrid)
Susan Quaintance, Instructor
Cost: Free for CLL Members; $25 for non-members

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Much like her immensely popular poetry, Mary Oliver's essays are a revelation of the miraculous in the ordinary. With her trademark attention to detail and awe for the natural world, Oliver nudges her readers into stopping and seeing, into thinking about everyday issues in a way that elevates our shared humanity.

We will get a taste of Oliver's prose, seeing where it overlaps with her poems and where it goes another direction.

Susan Quaintance, OSB, has cherished being a part of the Center for Life and Learning community — whether as Program Coordinator, Director, or friend — since 2014. Still keenly interested in issues affecting older adults, she is currently Director of Heart to Heart Ministry, a program designed to help seniors remain independent in their homes, at St. Gertrude Catholic Parish in Edgewater. She also serves as sub prioress for her religious community, the Benedictine Sisters of Chicago. For twenty-three years she taught English and Theology at St. Scholastica Academy in Rogers Park, and she has facilitated retreats, days of reflection, and discernment processes for adults all over the country.  

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