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Continue reading →: OasisHaving shifted recently to a different location, my commute to office has become longer. My day starts early on my “going to office” days, to accommodate the distance and to avoid the traffic. My routine happens like clockwork, I have scheduled my getting-ready activities down to the 5-minute mark, because…
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Continue reading →: Beyond Hope – A Dahlia story
I’d purchased a pink Dahlia a few months back. It was such a nice dark magenta-pink. It was so attractive. There was one fully bloomed flower and 2-3 buds during purchase. The second bud also bloomed. The problem started just when the third bud was about to bloom. The potted…
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Continue reading →: Squirrels Crossing and Cuckoo Calling
Of late, every morning, I sit at my rocking recliner and spend my quiet time with God. My chair faces the glass windows, the view outside is covered in greenery! There is a big black electrical wire that runs from one side to the other. As I spend some time…
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Continue reading →: Traces
This morning, as I was sipping on my cup of black coffee, I was deep in thought making a list of all the things I needed to do today. I saw some movement on my peripheral vision. I looked up to see a single branch in a tree shaking violently.…
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Continue reading →: Counting Down
I don’t know if it is because I’m growing old. I seem to have obtained a different perspective on the days that go by. I’m probably closer to my day of death than my day of birth. A morbid thought? Maybe. But true! Time is a currency we cannot earn…
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Continue reading →: Scars
As I gazed out of the window from my cab, I noticed another cab nearby whose side was damaged, both the doors were having a big scrape mark. The paint had gone, I could see the bare metal. Looked like he had scraped it along some divider or something. Maybe…
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Continue reading →: Right in front of me
I’ve been commuting to office by office cab/carpool/ride share – however you want to call it. Each day the route is different and my fellow cab mates are different, but we all go to the same office 😀 Some rare days, I get to be the sole passenger in the…
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Continue reading →: Solitude
I don’t know if it is because I’m an introvert, I’ve always cherished spending time alone. My earliest memories of spending time in solitude was during my school days. I used to stay at my grand parent’s place. Their house had a terrace, I used to go there and walk…
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Continue reading →: Under Construction
Being in Bangalore for the past few years, Every time I go out, I notice some construction work or the other going on. Sometimes it’s some apartment, huge ones! Other times, it’s office spaces or the metros – always some construction in progress in one phase or the other. At times…
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Continue reading →: How to Meditate?
Before we dive into “How to?”, I think we should start with “What is?” There are standard textbook definition of what meditation means and it varies depending upon the context and the applicaition. This being my personal blog, I will share my personal experience on what I understand about meditation…
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Continue reading →: Life Story
As a young child, once I’m back from school, I used to tell my grandmother about my day. Not all the details, but some highlights on what happened that day. Something interesting or funny or what someone said or did. After my grandmother’s passing, I used to tell my grandfather…
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Continue reading →: Never Forsaken
“Never will I leave you, Never will I forsake you.” This is a famous, well known verse. The word for I will not forsake you in Tamil translation reads as “கைவிடமாட்டேன்” (Kai vida maaten: Kai = hand vida=leave maaten=I won’t) literal translation is “I won’t let go of your hand”…