Category: Thoroughly Mundane
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And the green grass grows around.
a view to read with My favorite reading /writing spot is my balcony. As it is out of the house, I am shut off from the television noise, telephone rings, more importantly it overlooks the forest that borders our house. Some of the plants from the garden below shoot up to our height. The sea…
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You are your own mentor
Guru’s, Mentor’s, teacher’s many of them follow the path that they prescribe. Equal numbers of people go looking for these. Nothing really wrong in this finding the right person at the right time definitely helps if someone like that is available. But it is also necessary to recognize the right one. In the absence of…
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the same name
when the letter reached the wrong sibling Highland gas sentry reading a letter from home I have not really received any communication that was not meant for me, that amused me. But I have received a love letter that landed into my email ID, instead of my brother. We share the same initials so our…
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The Town with the Nicest People
On the way from Udupi to Karkala Small towners tend to be wary of new comers and city dwellers and townies indifferent unless you have someone to introduce you to the community. It’s always your hometown which is the most open to you and any one you decide to bring into the fold. They are…
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success
Believe in success and work like you have got it, seems the new mantra. Yet you don’t see successes the way they should be visible. Many a times I think it’s because the perception of success is not ours, we are gauging it by someone else’s standards. If we sat down and figured what we…
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cow day
The bay area behenji’s are here with their kids for a holiday. Their husband has finished up the three weeks leave and is working from Bangalore/Pune/home/or returned to Uncle Sam’s land. The behenji’s are sharing India with their kids, the n relatives to be met at Bangalore, Chennai or udupi or urban India. Then it…