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Do you know where your passport is?  Listen and you’ll hear my personal reflections along with what my son, grandson and two friends have told me about their feelings about their passports.  Could my neurotic feelings be a legacy from my refugee parents?(First broadcast March 14, 2012) Blog post here.

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Dr. William Grevatt, Los Angeles-based educator and Jungian analyst and President of the C.G. Jung Study Center of Southern California, talks about his new book The Alchemy of Tyrann: A Jungian Perspective, in which he explains why, 75 years after the end of Hitler,  what he calls “the dark shift to the right”, the pendulum swinging […]

Mike Bottini, wildlife biologist at Seatuck Environmental Association, talks about the emerging coyote presence on Long Island’s East End and how our communities can coexist with them. Broadcast onWPKN on April 7, 2021.

Will Paulson, fourth-generation woodworker, talks about his Swedish heritage, his philosophy about his tools, his craft and his sculptures and how he feels about wood and trees.  (First broadcast on WPKN May, 2014)

Kim Tetrault, an expert not only on the “spat”, which is what baby oysters are called after they have spawned, but also the head of the SPAT program at the Suffolk Project in Aquaculture Training at Cornell Cooperative Extension’s Marine Education Learning Center in Southold, his brainchild twenty years ago and still his responsibility today. Kim Tetrault is […]

Why do the words socialism and democratic socialism get  Americans so riled up these days?? What’s so fearful about “From each according to ability; to each according to need”? As I searched for answers to these questions, I was fortunate to come across an article by philosophy professor Luc Bovens in which he traces the […]

Well-known botanist and conservationist Tom Rawinski talks about moving from his work in the field educating northeast region towns how to manage the connections between their forests, their deer and their hunters to becoming a Fellow in the coveted Harvard Forest Bullard Fellowship Program where he’ll be writing a book to explore the deer abundance issue […]

Matthew Daddona, 30, a poet and Southold High School graduate whose first collection of poems, House of Sound, has just been published by Wandering Aengus Press.  Matthew talks about growing up on the North Fork, his writing practice, why he considers himself as much a writer as a poet and tells us about some of the poems […]

Isabella Tree talks about her latest book Wilding, a new kind of creation story.  From the Knepp estate in Britain’s  West Sussex, Ms. Tree tells how she and her husband Charlie Burrell, defeated by its deep clay soil to intensively farm their 3,500 acres of ancient, inherited land, literally turned it over with the help of […]

Dr. John Rasweiler a retired medical school professor who has spent much of his scientific career working with wildlife. A resident of Long Island’s North Fork, John has been active as both advisor and critic to local government, and here he tells us how the long-awaited Southold Town Comprehensive Plan falls well short of solving the […]

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.