the post calvin

A collection of Calvin University graduates. Since 2013, we've explored these restless post-diploma years in the best way we know how.

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Happy New Year! Here are our editors' favorite pieces of last year, from dying Christmas traditions to cryptobros to archival hijinks:
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Each year, we ask our writers to pick their favorite post of their own. From Gatorade to drag shows to Cocaine Bear, here are the best posts of 2023!

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"I’m certain that my experience of grieving for a family member lost in a place far away is not unique."

Parker Yeo on grieving across oceans:
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"I allow only a sliver of hope to fill me. Then I go outside and immediately smash the side view mirror clean off my car."

Hannah McNulty on unexciting newness:
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"Each visit, after our creased-smile greeting and first sips of Throat Coat® tea, we lit a small candle and breathed together."

Isaac DeBoer on the gift of spiritual direction:
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"As cocaine rains down like snow, Cocaine Bear is resurrected and lives to see another day and snort another line of coke."

Carlisle Patete with An Eight Month–Late, Spoiler-Filled Review of ‘Cocaine Bear’:
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"The car, when looking at it from the front, seemed normal enough...But when you walked around the sides, you could see that every window was plastered with sun-faded Dragon Ball Z character stickers."

Tiffany Kajiwara on a fateful trip:
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"Finding a recipe is easy; finding a good one is the real challenge. When I open a cookbook, I hope to find a new friend whose voice I appreciate and trust."

Courtney Zonnefeld (@sunnyfieldcourt) with some cookbook recommendations:
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“If my life can change,��� Dan said with his actions and life, “so can yours.”

Noah Keene (@iemdarthvader) with a tribute to a great man:
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"I didn’t have a plan, I just knew I needed to start over again, by myself."

Olivia Harre on finding her own way:
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"The lie of whiteness is that I come from nowhere and could place myself anywhere, that my life and work come from me alone and have nothing to do with anyone else..."

Jack Kamps on complex heritage and November:
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"Rule number one of working with middle schoolers should be don’t sign their petitions."

@EismaGabrielle on the persuasiveness of tweens:
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"I always found it strange at sleepovers when friends of mine would turn the lights off and fall asleep in near-absolute silence."

@phil_rienstra on the sounds that put us to sleep:
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"I can’t stop thinking about the Palestinian children holding a press conference outside al-Shifa hospital, pleading in English so we cannot pretend we do not understand."

Gwyneth Findlay can’t stop thinking about Palestine:
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"What kind of world are we living in where sixth graders have already lost sight of the things that bring them joy?"

Susannah Boersma on the lost joys of girlhood:
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"You are clinging to dead things."

@AlexLJohnson_1 on the space between moving on and not:
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"I think everyone should be allowed to have a few things on their mind, so long as they get sorted out eventually."

Kipp De Man on praying in the woods:
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"Long stretches in nature without the help of Google will do this to you: you will realize exactly how little you know about the world."

Ansley Kelly @ansleykelly on porcupines, first aid, and becoming someone who builds shelters on Sundays:
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"If given the opportunity to join the Guard, I would be honored to stand around the white tree no matter how many cave trolls are punching their way through the city."

Christina Ribbens @CsRibbens on why she'd be a great addition to some fantasy teams:
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"While fifth-edition Dungeons and Dragons provides a good base, does anyone really want to play with encumbrance?"

Sam Tuit @ttam809 on breaking the rules well:
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