Joshua Doležal 

@joshuadolezal
Author of a memoir and a poetry collection. Essays in Missouri Review, Kenyon Review, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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To Call Each Thing By Its Right Name
The Solitary Wanderer Comes Home
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We live in an age of complaint. Grievance is mistaken for power. I’ve lived that, fallen into that trap.

I’ve been thinking lately about mercy, how transformative it is to receive it, how receiving mercy requires me to be merciful.

It is a more powerful way to live.