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Peter Friederici

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  • Essayist, Letter From Home, Flagstaff Live
  • Professor, Northern Arizona University
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Letter from Home: Zeroing out

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By Peter Friederici Verified
| Flagstaff Live Verified
During the same week in June, two freakish things happened. A rare but welcome incursion of monsoon moisture entered Arizona from the south, scattering welcome showers across parched forest and grassland, but also throwing down lightning bolts that set off dozens of wildfires. Elon Musk, meanwhile, became the world’s first trillionaire, reaching an unprecedented milestone in the lengthy annals of human accumulation.
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Letter from Home: Springing back

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By Peter Friederici Verified
| Flagstaff Live Verified
There isn’t a lot of time for reflection as the spring semester winds down, so thick is the calendar with projects and presentations and heaps of grading decisions to make, but in late April there were some mornings when the cool temperatures and bursting green leaves brought to mind wistful thoughts of a long-ago spring that for me was also defined by the seductive promise of an idealized college campus.
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Letter from Home: Thirty years, and counting

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By Peter Friederici Verified
| Flagstaff Live Verified
I first heard about the Master of Liberal Studies program at NAU not long after I moved to Flagstaff, from the person of a woman whom I would eventually marry. "Well, that sounds interesting," I thought, adding it to the list of things I found interesting about her. The program was focused on good and sustainable communities, she said.
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