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Jenny Nordberg talks about her just published and most fascinating book The Underground Girls of Kabul: in search of a hidden resistance in Afghanistan. The book tells her discovery of bacha posh, a secret, hidden practice in which parents disguise young daughters as boys, usually until puberty, in a subversive attempt to counteract the oppression […]
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Christopher Calderhead, a very well-known New York City-based calligrapher, author and teacher talks about the history, practice and philosophy of calligraphy, from before the advent of the printing press to the contemporary tradition of graffiti. (Broadcast on WPKN radio on July 8, 2015. Produced by Tony Ernst.)
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This, my third Tidings program (broadcast in 2008) was based on actual notes from the journal I kept during my move from Manhattan to Mattituck (1999) after which I shared my odyssey during conversations with three others who described the upheaval and the uplifting experiences of their moves. I wrote: It’s a very big move. It’s the doing of it that’s big, not […]
I’m thinking of moving. I’ve set myself in motion. It’s a very big move. It’s the doing of it that’s big, not so much the getting there or being there. It’s pulling up eleven years of roots and hoping not to kill the tree. It’s pruning, shedding, clipping, grafting, transplanting—and taking root again in another […]
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“The end of the world as we know it is not the end of the world full stop,” says Dougald Hine, speaking from Sweden via Skype. Dougald, named by The Guardian as one of Britain’s fifty new radicals, is best known for Dark Mountain, an emerging cultural movement he co-founded with Paul Kingsnorth five years ago. Dark Mountain […]
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Links to North Fork Works programs 2012 and 2013 and to Southold Historical Society to learn about the North Fork’s past and present. Alex Villani, long-time fisherman and Stephanie Villani, fishmonger, proprietors of Blue Moon Fish describe their lives working their Mattituck-based family business. (November 5, 2014) https://ia600700.us.archive.org/2/items/AlKrupskiNorthForkWorks030514/Al%20Krupski-%20NorthForkWorks-03-05-14.mp3 Barbara Shinn, of Shinn Estate Vineyards in Mattituck, explains […]
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Sister Margaret Smyth, talks about how she became a nun, started and built the North Fork Spanish Apostolate in Riverhead and Greenport. She gives us an intimate and current look at the many challenges–and triumphs in the Hispanic community, including reuniting the unaccompanied children from Central America with their mothers on the East End of […]
Raza Rumi is a Pakistani writer, blogger and political analyst who spoke to me from Lahore, where he lives. He is also an adherent of Sufi thought and adopted the surname “Rumi” as his nom de plume, in tribute to the great 13th century poet and mystic. In our wide-ranging interview, Raza spoke eloquently and poignantly about his country […]
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Full disclosure. I don’t think tipping is a good thing and I don’t like what it does to people. I also believe that hardly anybody except for a few scattered bloggers will agree with me. You can read my views in a lavishly illustrated blog post or you can list to the podcast from the Tidings […]
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Our society trains people to become teachers or athletes or plumbers but Nora Kramer, activist and animal rights worker, argues we should also be training youth to become activists–and explains how Youth Empowered Action (YEA) Camp does just that.
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.
