Michelle Berry Lane on Separation and Conviviality

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Michelle Berry Lane, poet, writer and former science teacher, describes how human creatures in these times of late-stage capitalism and modernity have separated from and  forgotten their relationship to the earth and all its other creatures. Citing Ivan Illich among others, she shows us how conviviality and mutuality can help use  re-member ourselves to the earthly community if we are to not only survive but also thrive. (Broadcast on Tidings on WPKN, February 14, 2024)

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  1. thank you Hazel, such an important perspective…one which we all should be absorbing. How different the world would be had woman not been so feared, and thus shrouded, muzzled, silenced, kept pregnant…and how men (for all their bravery and brilliance) have also been robbed of so much of their hearts and souls and thus their mutuality while patriarchal, power-seeking, capitalism has conditioned them as well as us to reduce everything to numbers and for us all to keep buying into it….

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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…

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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.

Hazel Kahan