Tag: Leah Kaminsky
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Trauma vicariously: a writer’s madness
Kirsten FoggToronto, Ontario, Canada It started with a lump in my throat. Actually, it started before that. Last year when I embarked on a project gathering stories of belonging, I tried to be witty and philosophical by quoting author Ben Okri. “Listening,” Okri had said in an ABC radio interview, “is quite close to suffering.”…
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Fluorescence
Leah KaminskyMelbourne, Australia The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books. – Paracelsus My youngest daughter has a lizard called Limmy living on her bedside table. Each time I kiss my girl goodnight, stroke her long, blonde curls and turn off the light, Limmy’s reptilian outline glows with a…