Category Archives: Meditations

At Finisterre’s edge of the world…

Posted on July 9, 2016 by Taline Voskeritchian

From time to time, and usually in the summer, I post photographs that friends send back from their travels–South America, the Balkan countries, the Middle East, anywhere and everywhere a traveler’s fancy has taken them for pleasure or pilgrimage, fun … Continue reading →

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From Feuntes’ “Myself with Others”

Posted on May 17, 2015 by Taline Voskeritchian

I went back to my notes from Feuntes’ Myself with Others, after I heard the news of his death.  They are as alive as they were some twenty-five years ago, when I wrote them down in a notebook whose pages … Continue reading →

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On Michael Haneke’s “Amour”

Posted on June 8, 2014 by Taline Voskeritchian

  ~~ My essay, “Reading the Book of Living with Michael Haneke’s Amour,”  is now posted on the on-line literary/cultural magazine, The Bangalore Review. Check it out here.   http://www.bangalorereview.com/2014/06/reading-the-book-of-living-with-michael-hanekes-amour/ ~~

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Do you know the way to Sacromonte?

Posted on March 15, 2014 by Taline Voskeritchian

~~This post originally appeared on this blog; then it migrated to the blog of the radio program “On Being;” and now it is back in its home.  This homecoming today is an occasion for celebration in an otherwise mostly dreary … Continue reading →

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Ara Oshagan’s work on Social Documentary website

Posted on January 12, 2014 by Taline Voskeritchian

~~Ara Oshagan, my cousin, good friend and partner in profound silliness, is the featured photographer on the Social Documentary website for his work on juvenile prisons in California. I have featured Ara’s work on this blog before, twice. ~~ Here … Continue reading →

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First Loves: An Iliad at the Paramount, Boston

Posted on April 28, 2013 by Taline Voskeritchian

After the howls, the reverberating screams, the chants, the recitations, the physical re-enactment of war; after the fleeting tender moments amidst the horrors of war; after the narrator’s teases and asides Denis O’Hare and Lisa Peterson’s An Iliad ends in … Continue reading →

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After Sandy Hook:II

Posted on January 11, 2013 by Taline Voskeritchian

From Sandy Hook to Taft Union,teachers–those ant-like creatures who choose unimaginably low pay over fat checks and big bonuses, who work in wretched classrooms rather than spacious corporate offices, who spend many nights correcting papers rather than dining at swanky … Continue reading →

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Tips on Happiness 3: Uncharted seas*

Posted on September 30, 2012 by Taline Voskeritchian

~~On a wet, raw evening, the mind and heart can become pensive, wander off course.  It is such an evening in Boston–the summer surely in retreat, the winter not quite here yet. In-between, indeterminate, and exciting. Well-meaning writing teachers will … Continue reading →

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Tips on Happiness 2: Between Dover Beach and Swampscott,MA

Posted on June 18, 2012 by Taline Voskeritchian

[We’ll stick with the word happiness but I don’t like it, as I made clear in Tip 1.  It’s not happiness, as Dr. Weil correctly points out. He likes contentment; I don’t like that either. It smells of zen serenity, … Continue reading →

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Tips on Happiness I: what to throw out, what to keep

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Taline Voskeritchian

Tips on Happiness: A Rant and a Celebration in Several Parts I was waiting for the journal prescription–keep a journal, they all say it–and it came in Dr. Andrew Weil’s third tip for achieving happiness.  (It’s on MSNBC, under “Happiness … Continue reading →

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