My story by Kamala Das has a statement, “ask the books that I read why change. Ask the authors dead and alive who communicated with me and gave me the courage to be myself.” ... Did they? I do not know, I was brought up by parents and grandparents who were voracious readers, membership to …
The Inheritance.
“Imagine getting an old, heavy book and a letter from your ancestors.” Bella was saying. Well, when I did it was not an old heavy musty book, but set beautiful lemurian crystals. They were sleek, shiny with as though with barcode within, this was the legacy of my clan, the snake people, I never really …
Aah! for some refreshment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQ3uhnByS1k Rain drops and roses and whiskers and kitten, Blue satin ribbons and warm woollen mittens These are a few of my favourite things The sleeping murder is about a woman who remembers seeing a murder when she was about 2yrs, she did not remember who, and did not remember anything else of course through …
On Being Mary Kom.
“Priyanka earned much more than Mary Kom did in her entire career” the social media seem to scream. Well like Chinmayee Sumeet pointed each did their jobs and the disparity only mirrors our attitude towards the professions and not the competency of the professionals. Again as Priyanka herself pointed out, the battle that Mary Kom …
An autobiography is the s…
An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived. Herbert Samuel
Autobiography, the story of a person’s life as or written by the person.
Yes I know the Gandhi one got on our nerves too, and Nehru’s does not ring true.
Daphne du mauriers is right when she says autobiography is self-indulgent. On the other hand every artistic creation is a biography, an interpretation through our experiences.
This is where a dairy or a very personal autobiography helps. Sharing it with the general public is a later decision.
Mythology is composed of our collective memories, the more we recollect, share and co-relate the more powerful that energy becomes the God is only the visual manifestation of that power within us.
When this is paralleled with a mythological situation, we draw inspirations and parallels with the events of the gods it becomes a spiritual one and we begin to realize our inner strength one might choose to call it divine calling. During this transformation what is important is what we are transforming into than what we have transformed from.
The secret of Osiris become Ra is to turn darkness to light, for the soul to become aware as opposed to apathy.
In Egyptian parallels Osiris is the mundane living and death strikes; it’s about returning to source. Isis is transformation on this earth.
A spiritual diary or autobiography helps us assimilate an experience and move on to the next. They become relevant as our stories are our memories, collective memories are bonding and a tribe is built, to replace the tribe that our migrating society has destroyed. It roots us within us and to nature around.
If you are interested in really channelling this power within you start with morning pages that is minimum three pages every day, to be handwritten in long hand. Anything any crap just do it. By the end of the month you will figure a way out.
School … and peace prevails.
I am looking at all those back to school articles. Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you. ~Erma Bombeck ask my kids they'll vouch for its verity. A friend of mine was envying …
