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Michael N. McGregor
Michael N. McGregor is the author of Pure Act: The Uncommon Life of Robert Lax. He teaches English and creative writing at Portland State University.
When the Greek islands were hospitable to strangers
Recently the online world has been filled with images of people in desperate conditions, images not from Pakistan or Syria but from the Greek islands closest to Turkey: Chios, Lesbos, Leros. One picture showed a migrant raft landing near sunbathing tourists on Kos, an island I once knew well. It was a way station on my yearly visits to the nearby island of Patmos, where St. John was once a refugee himself. I went there to visit another immigrant to Greece: a spiritual poet named Robert Lax, who was Thomas Merton’s best friend.
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