Exploring the Connection Between Culture & Health
On the ghats of Varanasi during Dev Deepawali, November 2024 By Robin Blackstone The first thing she did was lift a leaf to her face. She was sitting at the base of a banyan, an old woman in a red bandhani sari with a pattern of small white squares, two heavy silver bangles stacked on…
Inspiration Perhaps it is age that pulls at the edges of my mind, drawing images of my life into view. When I was turning five, our family moved to the Grand Canyon National Park. We lived on the Loop, in a three-bedroom ranch-style house—standard government issue, nothing fancy, but home to most of my childhood…