Browsing All Posts By Greta Austin

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  Culture 1

  Shoveling Dirt
  On ritual and grief at a Jewish funeral

  Paul is in a coma, said the person calling. The doctors think this is the end. His wife Jenni wants you to come. She wants everyone there around ...

  On March 16, 2018 / By Greta Austin
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  Ideas 2

  Living with Pain:
  The Desert Fathers and Mothers, the Hindu Festival of Thaipusam, and the New York City Marathon

  In Singapore my husband and I took our children to Thaipusam, a Tamil religious festival. Hindu penitents carry milk jugs, impale themselves with fishhooks, and walk two miles ...

  On March 31, 2015 / By Greta Austin