13 April

Peasant Hat For The Summer. I Found My Hat

by Jon Katz

Photo by Maria Wulf

I saw this hand-made peasant hat from Romania online a month or so again, and I thought “this is my hat, this is the hat I want to wear all summer and Fall.” So I ordered it and forget about it.

Things from Romania take awhile to get her and it showed up in our mailbox today in a very non-American style box swathed in tape. When I finally got the box open and put the hat on, I fell in love with it.

This, I think, is the hat I have been searching for for a long time. When you are bald hats matter.

It is comfortable and rumpled, something an aging seeking wisdom would be happy to wear. I love it. Maria says I look like Paddington Bear. I’m not sure that is a compliment, but she says she loves the hat. I think there are Romanian peasants somewhere in my family history. It feels at home on my head.

6 Comments

  1. this hat is *you*, Jon! Soft around the edges…… almost worn and rumpled looking, and very comfortable………yet stylish and pert. It suits you well, I think!
    Susan M

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