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-15 posts tagged "Gratitude"
Letter to the Editor | Tuesday, May 11, 2021
The other day, I went on a walk to St. Mary’s lake with a few friends. Honestly, it was less of a walk and more of a picture-taking session. After all, it was evening and if you have never seen a sunset at St. Mary’s lake, you are really missing out. And this spring sunset
Katie Harmeyer | Monday, February 22, 2021
Last spring semester, I wrote an inside column that was published March 20 — so, by my records, precisely one week after it all went down. Rereading that column makes me laugh. A foundational assumption in the piece: Normal times would resume in probably about 30 days. Ha. Anyway — because it’s Lent (I should
Sydni Brooks | Monday, October 26, 2020
I would make the argument that the majority of us as students were concerned about the absence of a fall break in this school year. Fall break provides us with the time to catch up on the readings we are weeks behind on and recharge our social, physical, and academic batteries through relaxation. We are
Maria Leontaras | Friday, May 1, 2020
During spring break, everything seemed big and shiny and bright and new. I was a week into being Editor-in-Chief, and nothing had collapsed yet. I was visiting Los Angeles to see where I’d be living and working for the summer. I was going to see a magic show and head back to school to congratulate
Cate Von Dohlen | Friday, April 24, 2020
When I arrived at Notre Dame as a freshman, I thought walking around campus to class was so fun. It was on these walks from the random science building to O’Shag to DeBart where I nurtured friendships from Welcome Weekend, my dorm and anywhere else I seemed to meet people. The game of “Do they
Mary Freeman | Friday, May 17, 2019
I have learned many things in my time here at Notre Dame. One of these is that properly expressing depth of feeling with language is entirely impossible. I could sit here and write and re-write line after line of this farewell, but no matter what I say it likely will fall short of expressing how
Letter to the Editor | Monday, April 29, 2019
Last August, 15 of us walked onto this beautiful campus as a part of a new program called the Inspired Leadership Initiative. “Many” years have passed since we were undergraduate students ourselves, and we were unsure of what to expect as we attended classes with you all. Some of us had never stepped foot at
Mariah Rush | Tuesday, April 2, 2019
This past week I spent a good chunk of my time trying to work Stevie Wonder’s rendition of the song “Sunny” into my theology paper — we were supposed to compare a piece of art to a biblical passage. While I don’t think my paper went over very well, I did spend some time thinking
Campus Ministry | Monday, March 4, 2019
It finally happened. After months and months, it finally clicked. For two years, each time our now three-year-old daughter was given something, whether it be a toy, candy, crayon, coloring book, tissue or whatever, either my wife or I would say the same phrase, “Felicity, what do you say?” “Thank you… (insert giver’s name here).”
Gary Caruso | Friday, November 16, 2018
While on my way to work on Thursday, waiting for a red light to change, I glanced at a lump of blankets piled in a bus stop shelter. A skinny, fragile hand extended from the mound and slowly fed morsels of a candy bar to a partially exposed, thin, drawn elderly jaw. With the Thanksgiving