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December 16, 2024 By meerasub Leave a Comment

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Art has been my solace and fuel since the election. There was the antiquarian book show, where we witnessed the longevity of the written word. And a Georgia O’Keefe – Charles Moore exhibition at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. O’Keefe, whose work I’ve loved since I was a child, was “most interested in the holes in the bones—what I saw through them—particularly the blue from holding them up against the sky…they were most wonderful against the Blue—that Blue that will always be there as it is now after all man’s destruction is finished.” A perfect thought for this particular moment of beauty and terror.

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Filed Under: journalism, peregrinations, Substack Tagged With: Art, Basque Center for Climate Change, BC3, Boston, Charles Moore, Elizabeth Rush, Emily Raboteau, FRONTIERS, Georgia O'Keefe, Helen Macdonald, J. Drew Lanham, Off Assignment, teaching, writing

the dancing cobras

April 7, 2017 By meerasub Leave a Comment

Every writer on assignment ends up accruing tales that don’t fit the purpose — but that are still worth telling. Such is the inspiration behind the new magazine Off Assignment, where “the detour is the story.” I just had the pleasure of writing a piece for their Letter to a Stranger column, inspired by Pico Iyer’s quote: “…And writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger.”

Mine tells of a candlelit evening in South Asia and a man with a half-century-old story to tell about when he saw the cobras dance…

Read (and listen to me read) it here.

Filed Under: journalism, travels Tagged With: breakup, india, love, Off Assignment, snakes, stranger, travel

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