Tag: Musings
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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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As someone ridden with privilege, I have secretly taken pride in my ability to see a wrong. On occasions even point it out. A couple of years ago, my cook had proudly announced that her daughter was getting married. At an age which was seemingly unfair. Out of severe disappointment, I had not said much…
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Older siblings are kind, gentle and giving. By default.Younger might be many other things. But today is not about them.P gives, gives and gives. Even today when (in my head, I knew that we will not be able to see and check on each other for the longest time. And it was beginning to show)…
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If you are a pop culture consumer with first world privileges which include decent bandwidth internet access like me and have not watched Brooklyn Nine-Nine then why even read this?I mean go and watch it on Netflix/another streaming service NOW. We shall bond over it later. GO!As Gina Linetti would say, ‘its the human form…
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Pre-script – The parents were living with me for the past few months. And now they have returned to their home. And I am missing them terribly. And because I am a grown-up adult who talks with them almost every day, I decided to write about it and not tell them directly. Very mature.For the longest…
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was laden with laziness, procrastination and breaking the illusory comfort zone. (Is it really breaking it if you do something you like?) At times I need triggers. It had been 1.5 years since I had taken any break (read real vacation) at work. For that matter break of any kind. So I decided to go to…
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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…