“Is Adin going to be drafted?” asked my 14 year-old son Kyrian on hearing the news of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Adin is 18 and has registered, by sexist mandate [1], for selected service and, clearly, my younger son is concerned. He is not an overtly emotional young man, so for him to express anyContinue reading “The Moth Invades”
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INITIATION and TESTING
____________________________ I regret not recording where I grabbed this photograph. I believe it was from Life magazine in the late 1970s, taken by Marialba Russo [1] from her study in virility, ritual, and the human need to prove transformation. ____________________________ The latent anthropologist in me laments the lack of rites of passage celebrating importantContinue reading “INITIATION and TESTING”
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