Tidings podcast

Chris Antal, Staff Chaplain and Dr. Peter Yeomans, Staff Psychologist at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in Philadelphia talk about understanding the suffering of moral injury among U.S. combat-deployed Veterans and their facilitation of a 12-week Moral Injury Group and Community Healing Ceremony in which Veterans’ burdens are shared by the community made more […]

Aanchal Malhotra speaks to Tidings from Delhi about her beautiful book “Remnants of Partition: 21 objects from a content divided“, in which survivors of Partition talk about the one precious object they carried across the border  that created India and Pakistan in 1947—and the power these remnants have  to tell a story we might not otherwise […]

In this episode of Tidings from Hazel Kahan, Noam Cohen, author, journalist and Wikipedia editor, takes us inside Wikipedia to show us how its articles actually come into being as a bastion of sources-based truth and bulwark against fake news, used by Google, Siri and YouTube among others to answer our questions. (Broadcast on WPKN […]

Jungian-oriented psychoanalyst and author Dr. Candace De Puy analyzes the recent intense emotions surrounding anti-abortion politics through the lens of Carl G. Jung’s analytical psychology theories of individuation, archetypes and the collective unconscious.  Dr. De Puy, based in Los Angeles, is  co-author with Dr. Dana Dovitch of The Healing Choice: Your Guide to Emotional Recovery After an Abortion (2013). (WPKN […]

Following on from his talk: “Slaughter of the Innocents: an archetypal understanding of the tragedy of school shootings,” Dr. Michael Conforti, Jungian analyst, author and founder and director of the Assisi Institute, examines the escalation of child killings through his psychoanalytic lens. He explains why our approach to school shooters fails to address the archetypal nature […]

Constance Mallinson, Los Angeles-based artist, writer and curator talks about the history of the Sublime in landscape painting and how climate change has influenced the way today’s artists represent landscape and nature, with examples from the exhibited in Mapping the Sublime: Reframing Landscape in the 21st Century at the Brand Library and Art Center in […]

This month’s guest on Tidings is Palestinian-American author and journalist Ramzy Baroud who, in addition to his numerous books and writings, is author of the recently published Common Dreams article: “From Korea to Libya: On the Future of Ukraine and NATO’s Neverending Wars.” Today on Tidings, Baroud discusses the new world order he sees reflected […]

A great interview with Tamara Winfrey Harris, author of “The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America” in which she exposes anti-black-woman propaganda and shows how real black women are pushing back against distorted cartoon versions of themselves. (First broadcast  in 2017. Produced by Tony Ernst.)

Although we hear about climate change every day, we actually know more about its impact on the planet itself  than we do about its effects on our mental health. In this Tidings from Hazel Kahan, climate psychology experts talk about what climate change is doing to our human psyches. (First broadcast on WPKN July 14, 2021)

Sam Pelts, artist, activist, Special Project Manager for the CODEX Foundation and one of the founding organizers of the remarkable, expansive  EXTRACTION: Art on the Edge of the Abyss, an exhibition that took place throughout 2021 to raise the alarm about the global poisoning and destruction unleashed by the extractive industries. (WPKN November 10, 2021)

About Hazel

Born to German Jewish refugee physicians in Lahore (now Pakistan, then British India) Hazel has lived, studied and worked in many places–India, England, Australia, Israel and the United States. She makes her home in the woods of the eastern end of Long Island, New York where she produces the art of leafages, the radio sounds of Tidings and writes about growing up Jewish in Lahore. Read more about Hazel…

About Leafages

"Credo" statement

Leafages by Hazel Kahan are made from real leaves, vines and tendrils interwoven with calligraphy, decorative pen and ink flourishes and imaginary Latin botanical names. Leafages contain a philosophical or inspirational thought, quotation or verse from sages, poets or religious texts. Some leafages are specially created for an individual, a couple or a family with words or leaves reflecting their personal narrative. They are available on the Leafages shop on Etsy although the supply is low right now, all my energies having been absorbed by the book I’ve been writing. Do come back soon when the shop will be full of new leafage abundance or contact me.