LETTER FROM
THE EDITOR
men will lose the work that has
sustained them for decades. As
Frank Mirarchi, a 69-year-old
fisherman who has been harvesting cod and flounder in New England for nearly half a century, put
it, “We’re gonna lose a bunch of
boats.” Mirarchi’s boat is named
for his mother, Barbara L. Peters,
and he expects he’ll have to put it
up for sale soon.
Elsewhere in the issue, Mallika
Rao puts the spotlight on the rise
of Braco, a Croatian healer whose
method is simple and, some say,
miraculously effective. His method? As Mallika writes, “All he
does, to the delight of his followers, is gaze at them.” Braco is part
of a larger universe of healers of
varying philosophies and practices, some of them bearing a resemblance to “celebrity fitness trainers, with products and regimens
open to anyone willing to pay.”
Still, Braco’s followers swear to
his legitimacy, from claims that he
hails from Atlantis to elaborate attempts to place him in a tradition
of transcendental gurus. These believers say Braco offers something
— “just the sight of him seeing you”
— all too rare in our world of digi-
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tal distractions, serial multitasking
and missed connections.
At a recent appearance, Braco
gazed into an audience holding
up photos of loved ones, many
of them crying. One woman said
the encounter made her “feel
light and childlike and creative.
Braco gazed into an
audience holding up photos
of loved ones … One woman
said the encounter made
her ‘feel light and childlike
and creative.’”
To me, that’s what Braco does.
I’ve been carrying a heavy sack
of stuff on me for ages now, and
it started to drift away.”
Finally, as part of our ongoing
effort to reduce stress in our lives,
including in our kitchens, we have
a feature on how to keep cool
while performing a notoriously
delicate culinary task:
poaching an egg!
ARIANNA