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A had a very heartfelt, touching, and wholesome conversation with the cleaning guy at the Airbnb she stayed at. When he visited the first time, she was busy talking with family so she did not pay much attention. Then he was gone the next day, due to some exam. On the third day when he…
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Preamble: I took this up as a project for NaNoWriMo. Our writing community had a great setup for this. Carve out morning time to write-write-write. I had it all worked out. Of course, life happened. I could not complete heck even begin writing this. So I extended it saying ‘lets-try-to-finish-it-this-year-Y’ trying to meet the Dec…
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Baba (my father) mentioned the other day ‘Amitabh Bachchan is turning 80 this year!’ Because I was in my own world, I nodded — more like wow what an important piece of information to know — and forgot. And then I read about it yesterday (his actual birthday) in the newspaper. From getting my news…
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Preamble: T and I have a ritual of gifting books on each others’ birthday. (a few other friends and I also share it but that’s not the point). Last year around my birthday, I was shameless in telling T that I didn’t need a book yet because of the too big unread pile piling at…
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This little person sings in the bathroom. She makes up songs. And then after the routine of washing her hands and feet struts into the room nagging me to help her wear her pajama. I am in an office meeting and she appears on my side to stare at the screen. In her signature gentle…
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We have a 3 yo at home. In this life (ves?) altering time, we tried to explain to her why one can no longer go out to play or walk. I don’t know how much she understood. But she seems to have caught on to the virus bit. The other day she was playing with…
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Because rituals are a safe space here I go again! Sharing the books I read through the latter half of 2019. Not as many as I would have liked. Books from 1st half of 2019 are listed here. Educated by Tara Westover – This is one of the top 2019 reads for me. I loved…
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I read the beautiful debut novel The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay last weekend and tried penning down the stir of emotions it caused. Sometimes all we remain to someone’s experience of life is an outsider. Beyond family, friends and belonging in a way we are all outsiders to the joy, pain, suffering of others.…
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Is your name-game strong? Are you a name-purist who can remember and pronounce the names of other people as they expect? (I can’t. But I have a good memory so I can usually figure out names of acquaintances I forget after a few minutes in a conversation). Anywho, a few weeks ago I ran a…
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I finished reading the remarkable Educated by Tara Westover a couple of days ago and can’t seem to get Tara’s story out of my head. So here are few thoughts I am jotting down (might add more later). I had never read a story about a poor (financially), real, white, Christian person before this. So…