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“How are you Mam?”

She stood there like a Botticelli painting. Silently waiting. Filling up the room with unspoken words, concerns, kind thoughts, her calm composure.

A pale sad smile. More waiting.

I feel anxiety. What can I say… Read full post »

In large numbers. To make a difference.

An ass begets another ass. An ignorant woman usuallyraises an insensitive ignorant child unless that child gets jediis as teachers or friends or wives or husbands reared by other intelligent women. 

One  intelligent woman when she becomes a mother pr… Read full post »

  That is him babay Hitler

 Hitler's First Photograph
-------Wislawa Szymborska

And who's this little fellow in his itty-bitty robe?
That's tiny baby Adolf, the Hitlers little boy!
Will he grow up to be an LL.D.?
Or a tenor in Vienna's Opera House?
Whose teensy… Read full post »

what flower did my ex-husband give me when he met me for the first time?

He did not bring me flowers. After the wedding his mother left me white fragrant flowers on the dresser I never used. I heard that. Why? I do not know.

On my twenty first birthday… Read full post »

I think at the right time giving up is the thing to do. Accept defeat, lay down arms, kneel on life’s floor, to be the prisoner of war. POW. No, well that is too glorious and presumptuous. Simply put down the dreams and get on what is left of life. Since… Read full post »

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YWCA India writes:

They need a "consent Letter" from a "parent" or "guardian" to let a boarder stay at the Young Women's Christian Association in Lucknow.

Since I did not want to argue with the warden, and I desperately needed a place to stay at, I nodded my "consent" at the disturbing… Read full post »

Is joy like no other.

It pays to go away if there is a home to come back to. Nothing compares with the joy of coming home, somehow even if you know it isnt going to be perfect bliss in this place. You still want to come home.

Me and my… Read full post »

Yesterday night two very kind and humane colleagues dropped me off at the gates of the YWCA in Lucknow.

The director and I had a nice chat while she interviewed me about my plans and I informed her that I love it here and if… Read full post »

I received a real letter after a really long long time

in which someone actually opened up and talked

such things make you stay grounded 

and remember we are all humans -

thank you Phil

and there was poerty on my brithday

specially captured on video and sent home… Read full post »

Dear K----lji

Heard that you told someone you had counseled me,

Am deeply touched with your kindness and consideration

And this is to specially thank you for all your kind help.

Here is wishing you a year exactly as good… Read full post »

A prosaic account of my year in 2011

First contact with Lucknow in January when I came here for a workshop. Put up at the Chowk area, visited Imambara and fell in love with the place, appeared for a job interview, got the job, decided to come back later.… Read full post »

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How I finally was convinced this is the new age I am in?

I bumped into my bro on FB.

Yeah, I haven't seen this little brother in six years.

Then I stumble upon him on FB, discover he has turned into… Read full post »

found a place and shifted day before yesterday evening, spent the first night and next day evening studying the room -

realised the windows didnt close properly and the draft leaves me cold at night and I cannot sleep, also since it is next to the railway… Read full post »

:) back on the roll

reclaimed all the mail I had lost access to.

welcomed a score of forty plus and rocking fellows at the FB group that VTK Menon who used to blog here once had started (and I suspect based on what I had laughingly said to him once… Read full post »

Reflections - People Skills

When you cause

a lively spirit to die,

You commit

The gravest murder

As you leave

A liability on the

Community to cope with

An alive-dead member… Read full post »

A place to call home eludes me

Maybe I never was meant to be home or find one?

Nevertheless life is good

Work has never been better

I read all day for work and often it feels like

One is in flight in realms of strange ideas

Unfamiliar… Read full post »

Some people find their way in to homes, houses, shelter, shelterin other people's minds some drift further out - further and further out - they drift towards the open high seas - strange places strange minds unstrange feelings -storm wracked rough life and living in patches amidst deep dark black nig… Read full post »

Means now I travel alone

| Also means I now eat alone

Means I can now buy what I please

| Also means there is no one to buy me anything anymore. If I want a chocolate, there is no one to ask

Means now… Read full post »

  I know it when your light shines in my eyes and am no longer lost and found... Read full post »

Hi Linda,

When people choose to act, whether that act be putting up a play, making love, cooking, cleaning or just blogging on OS, they need a strategy. 

You chose yours, depending on who you are and ittefak se,  it worked for you - I do not/… Read full post »

Posting this in the running, this is also a part of the weeklong celebration of our dear blogmate James M Emmerling, hope my resposting this here doesn't upset you: 

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FIRST LESSON IN GESTALT THERAPY...

("What is the subject matter of psychology?...

1. e/… Read full post »