Scratching the Horizon: A Surfing Life

Scratching the Horizon presents a bitchin love letter to sand and sea and a spirited inside account of life with the first family of American surfing. In 1956 Dorian Doc Paskowitz stepped away from a successful medical practice and began a lifelong surfing odyssey that grew to include his wife Juliette and their nine children. Together the Paskowitz clan lived a vagabonding bohemian existence eschewing material possessions in favor of intangible riches like health and good cheer . . . all the while careening along the worlds coastlines in search of the perfect wave.. In Scratching the Horizon Izzy Paskowitz looks back at his unusual upbringing and his lifelong passion for the sport that carries his familys stamp. As the fourth-oldest child in a family of inveterate surfers rock stars and beach bums he is uniquely qualified to shine a light on a childhood that has come to symbolize the surfing credo a reckless young adulthood that nearly cost him his sanity and a maturing sense of self and purpose that allows him to lift others on the back of his experience.. As the father of a son with autism and the founder of Surfers Healing a foundation devoted to expanding the horizons of children with autism through surfing Paskowitz has found a way to connect the surreal aspects of his childhood to the harsh realities of adulthood and he shares these discoveries in this wickedly entertaining and transforming memoir.