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| welcome to my home! |
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| my orchids |
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| my bourdoir!! |
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| kitch!! |
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| peace!! |
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| & more peace |
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| cherry chillies |
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| home tweet home!! |
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Monday 13 June 2011
My piece of Heaven on earth !!!
Vintage!
Let me grow lovely, growing old,
So many fine things to do.
Laces and ivory and gold
and the silks need not be new.
There is a healing in old trees,
old streets a glamour hold.
Why may not I, as well as these
Grow lovely growing old?
So many fine things to do.
Laces and ivory and gold
and the silks need not be new.
There is a healing in old trees,
old streets a glamour hold.
Why may not I, as well as these
Grow lovely growing old?
Saturday 11 June 2011
Sorry God!!!
I became an Atheist,. Now a couple of years later am trying to take a softer stance and become Agnostic. The desire to worship something persisted and now i am a Pantheist!!I acknowledge a higher power - Nature.I can say that I follow Hinduism in its oldest form. Do good, feel good, good karma, bad karma!!Everything that happens in our life..luck, love , illness, death are random occurrences which we interpret & analyze in context to our religious beliefs & culture. But it was not always like this!!
As we grow in life we grow away from our roots,our beliefs & traditions. I grew up in a family where a Satyanarayana katha would be organised by my grandfather on the slightest pretext. News of a birth, someone passing an exam, a new job.....anything!!We celebrated Diwali, Ananth Chaturthi, Nava Ratras, Nag Panchami( i used to go with my grandmother to put milk for the snakes in abandoned ant hills!!). The whole family would gather, newborns, sons, daughters, Daughters-in-laws, grandkids, grand parents....so much jashn!!!
What legacy are we leaving for our children?In these jaded times we desperately need such ceremonies.In my anxiety to keep up with the world, I have left mine behind. Will our kids ever hear the word "sowbhagyawati", the blessing given to a happily married woman?I think we all need to invest some time & energy to draw us back into this world of traditions. A family now has no more than 5 members ie. if you count your dog as your child! Its not too late! We need to get back to our roots, where we came from! Religion today has taken a whole new different feeling...its all there in your face with an empty heart within.
As we grow in life we grow away from our roots,our beliefs & traditions. I grew up in a family where a Satyanarayana katha would be organised by my grandfather on the slightest pretext. News of a birth, someone passing an exam, a new job.....anything!!We celebrated Diwali, Ananth Chaturthi, Nava Ratras, Nag Panchami( i used to go with my grandmother to put milk for the snakes in abandoned ant hills!!). The whole family would gather, newborns, sons, daughters, Daughters-in-laws, grandkids, grand parents....so much jashn!!!
What legacy are we leaving for our children?In these jaded times we desperately need such ceremonies.In my anxiety to keep up with the world, I have left mine behind. Will our kids ever hear the word "sowbhagyawati", the blessing given to a happily married woman?I think we all need to invest some time & energy to draw us back into this world of traditions. A family now has no more than 5 members ie. if you count your dog as your child! Its not too late! We need to get back to our roots, where we came from! Religion today has taken a whole new different feeling...its all there in your face with an empty heart within.
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