Turkish towel

On a recent winter day, baby green urchins, red bumpy “Turkish towel” seaweed and chunky white-frilled anemones hung out under the docks outside Friday Harbor Labs.

He sat at Mar-a-Lago with a thick Turkish towel wrapped around his head, eyes squeezed shut, willing the thoughts to stop.

We touched each other freely under our peshtemal, the small Turkish towels we were given.

“It was, like, our little joke, at first. I put the Turkish towel on him; he’d kick it off and run back in and sing it some more,” Ray added.

Dry off with Mayde’s tasseled Turkish towel, which can double as a wrap when the wind picks up.