Letting Life Flow Through Me
I just came back from a 10-day Vipassana Meditation Retreat. I met up with a couple of good friends after almost decades on the way to the retreat. And they asked me why I attend these retreats – as they are more austere than spa retreats. They are silent retreats with no electronics, notebooks accompanied …
I had a colleague at work tell me – ‘I watched your language’s movie.’ I was taken aback by the ‘Your language’ comment because I had to think about what he meant by that. A bit of context: India is a small country with great variety. Every state has its language, culture, food, dress, festivals, gods …
‘Your generation cannot boil an egg without going online.’ – is a line said by a grandad to his grandson in one of the Slow Horses books I am reading right now. It is a great book series and also streaming on apple. I read the book, but this sentence stayed with me for some …
I talked about Andor – Star Wars Spin-off on Disney with my peers. And being a budding author, I was mesmerized by the storytelling. I told them that Disney knows how to tell a story. Response back was – yeah, when it works, it works. And my instant reply was – that’s creativity for you. …
Let me tell you a story of a young boy bullied as a child in South Africa in the apartheid era. The boy was born into a wealthy family and went to a traditional private boy’s school. He does not quite fit in with his sensitive nature and dreams – he likes reading sci-fi books. …
I recently saw a Tamil movie – PS-1 (Ponniyan Selvan – Part 1). It is historical fiction based on events that took place centuries ago in the south of India. In short, it is about a kingdom and how it retained or lost its empire. One of the princes’ is fighting other states and is …
Peeling The Layers Of The Onion. Let me state upfront that this blog is like peeling the layers of the onion, and depending on where you are in your journey of knowing yourself – you may see a different layer. I have a little series of meetings at work titled – The empowered club, where …
I had my team do a eulogy as an activity to get to know each other better and also get to know oneself better. And my entry referred to my fascination with morbid things in general. One of my colleagues asked me – what is the reason you are so fascinated by Death? I thought …
Recently, I have been on a spate of watching shows or books about the 60+ in our world. The show I watched was – Green Glove Gang, a polish show on Netflix. It’s about three 60+ ladies who are sort of Robin hood and also excellent heist thieves. Well, for one, they are super tech-savvy …
COVID-19, a phrase that the entire human population was unaware existed, has become a part of daily life. In our household, we managed to avoid COVID until last week – when my husband tested positive. And at that time, I braced myself for the inevitable of testing positive myself, which came true in the last …