Tag: Head

Haiku Project — 365 was born because I wanted to dive into simplicity. Haiku has become my favorite way to express my thoughts and feelings and over the last few years has become an instrumental influence in my daily life. I am insatibally drawn to Haiku because it has a remark...

What makes a stage head so different from a flake? After all, both platforms create an outdoor space and can serve as drying platforms for fish. Whereas a flake is on land or connects two buildings, i.e. the house and the store, a stage head is an extension of the fishing stage towards the ocean....

If society is judged by how we treat our most vulnerable, America is failing miserably. We’re struggling with the basic pillars of a healthy society. In large swaths of the country, we’re failing to educate students and pay workers a living wage, let alone provide an aging population wit...

About a week after ending my relationship with my narcissistic ex, I happened to be hanging out with my sister and her kids. At one point during our afternoon, my sister’s five-year-old son was playing with the family bunny and accidentally hurt its ear. This wasn’t a big deal —...

At 6:30 in the morning, my father received a call in June 2020, inquiring about my name. Taking the phone, I encountered a man on the other end in a state of frantic distress. Despite his emotional urgency, I struggled to comprehend his words. He gathered himself and informed me that his younger bro...

My Zaide was tall. Or at least, I remember him that way. Marking his 11th yartzeit this week memories of him are close at hand. Sitting in his armchair with a huge book. Long talks about the future, or the news, or the red sox. Flying his kite as he enjoyed his well-deserved retirement on ...

Yes, it’s a staple of the typical family Christmas in most homes — the Nativity scene proudly displayed by the Christmas Tree or some other prominent place at Christmas. Someone has the job of clambering into the loft and retrieving the cherished Nativity set from where it was dumped ...

In anthropology, the process of identity change (when observed in coming-of-age rituals) is often mapped out as Separation → Liminality → Reintegration. So, this process of letting go can act as a form of that initial separation phase. More than just the identit...

It was late one night when I chanced upon a Medium blog by Karthik. The first couple of lines captivated me to no extent — “A swing of the door of the bookshelf at home revealed a thirty-year-old treasure of my father’s. The nuggets comprised seven books of the most amazing sh...

First, let me be perfectly clear: When something makes my head explode, that’s a good thing. It means it blew me away. Every now and then I come across something that Ram Dass, Eckhart Tolle, Mickey Singer and a few others have said or written that goes beyond attracting my interest. Today&...