Category: musings
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Please believe me when I say that until this year I did not know how to meditate or why I should meditate. I mean if I made a list of things I learned in 2017, then ‘meditation’ would go to the top. Also, please! You don’t ‘learn’ how to meditate. You just do it every…
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This past week has flown by. Travel, work, Diwali, meeting aunts and uncles, helping parents fix things at home (fixed a Chinese lighting set using good old soldering techniques learned in Junior College, with Fathership watching over as lead technician and Brothership helping out with getting the soldering paste and cord from local electrician 😎), Diwali…
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I did some impulse shopping last Sunday. Went to watch Newton, came out feeling really positive and saw a very pretty dress hanging on a mannequin by a shop window. Made a dash to the changing room-tried it-it fit me!-paid the bill-and came out of the shop beaming. Even more than before.Now a lot of…
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I read and enjoyed and also got (un)necessarily involved in really good fiction, thanks to the Neapolitan Novels series by Elena Ferrante. For beginners its a 4 book series, traverses the friendship and story of 2 girls growing up in Naples Italy from 1960s to early 2000s. (I had decided to do a 1/2 yearly…
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I am looking at the final descent of the Cassini spacecraft into Saturn’s atmosphere. As Cassini dares into the uncharted territory, I well up. There is something deeply moving and romantic about the images. I wonder what all the astronomer’s in the world must be feeling now. Wonder, excitement, awe of what awaits? As the…
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Of unfinished/unstarted/left in random state projects. Because Upasna who I am constantly in awe of wrote one with the most apt illustration.1. Books – 9 physical books have piled up on my to read list. I don’t know how/when I am going to arrive at them. 2. Photo memory project – I am not big…
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Getting that itch to write a philosophical post. Maybe also because my birthday was around the corner and I cannot help but make a list. Of thoughts, things, and my musings. Travel – I increasingly feel that I live in a silo. I read only particular books (despite the efforts to include writers from different…
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I want to take a break from the travel reporting and reflect on my state of my mind, when I am traveling. I like being out. Out in the nature > out with people or in public, crowded spots. I do like taking breaks, reading books, doing nothing. I also like work. The work I…
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6 months being a vegetarian! yay! This was my long term life goal. And I am glad I could embrace it in my early thirties. Slightly inspired by Scott Jurek’s lifestyle change and a lot more about trying to have minimal impact on nature and my surroundings. I know this sounds totally absurd, at least…
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One of those rare occasions when I am home on 29th February. I am jet lagged from a recent trans-atlantic flight and needed a day off from office to regain my senses. I spent the morning watching the Oscars. I was not rooting for anyone particular but it warmed my heart to see spotlight, mad…