For a daring new leafages project made possible by the leather-like quality of this most noble of leaves.
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In this first of a three-part series, two conversations: the first, with John Daido Loori (1931-2009) founder and former abbott of Zen Mountain Monastery in upstate New York, died shortly after this interview was taped. Daido Roshi, as he was known to his students, was founder and former abbott of Zen Mountain Monastery in upstate New York and […]
Rare video showing refugees reaching Lahore’s Wagha border on trains, bullocks and Lahore Omnibus Service during the 1947 partition war. These were Muslims forced to flee India because what was formerly India had now been partitioned by the British into primarily Hindu India and Muslim Pakistan, resulting in millions of deaths and enormous dispossession and displacement. The film offers poignant contrast […]
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Yusuf’s story is relatively simple: before 1967, Batir was in Jordan. After the Six Day War, it became part of Israel’s occupied territories. Until two years ago, Yusuf was able to move and work between Batir and Israel. Today, Batir is enclosed by the wall and Yusuf has to pass through tunnels and checkpoints to […]
Like tipping, the subject of another early Tidings program, begging creates an unequal relationship between giver and receiver, an unbalanced one-way exchange with the amount of money transferred depending on the generosity and intentions of the donor with the receiver having very little to say. Here’s what I discovered.
Christopher Bollen does not live and work on the North Fork but you wouldn’t know it from his book Orient, a dark mystery novel set in the hamlet of Orient among intrigue, politics, tension and murders. Cameo appearance by Beth Young. Listen to this North Fork Works program right here. (Produced by Tony Ernst and broadcast on WPKN on August 12, 2015.)
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A personal story in which my two school friends, Midge and Pat, talk about being Third Culture Kids and our life growing up in India and Pakistan and at Woodstock School in Mussoorie. RIP Midge, we love you and miss you. Here’s the blog post from February, 2010.
Growing Up Jewish in Lahore — And in an Internment Camp COURTESY OF HAZEL KAHAN Not Your Typical German Anti-Nazis: From left, Hazel Kahan, her mother Kate, and her brother Michael, in Lahore, Pakistan, in 1948. By Gabe Friedman Published October 18, 2014, issue of October 24, 2014. Full article: http://forward.com/articles/207415/when-jews-found-refuge-in-pakistan/?p=all#ixzz3IrfmUhjW
Yet why not say what happened? Here’s everything I have to say about leafages since I made the first one in the year 2000. It was published by the wonderful Storyacious magazine.
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…
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.
