Navaratri celebrations tonight!
Friday, September 30, 2022
all set to start
Thursday, September 29, 2022
hard first step
Titled "Out of Reach," this installation really spoke to me.
It's part of this year's campus-centric Art Prize and the student creators indicate that it's a representation of accessibility issues in our world.
How many things are impossible because that first step is so insurmountable...
And then looks like procrastination, intractability, or delinquency...
It's a good reminder that I am an elder in this world and can reach out when people don't show up. (Just in case it's because they can't show up.)
Also it seemed so faraway when we postponed the visit in August, but now SD is here! SD is here! SD is here!
Wednesday, September 28, 2022
diminishing
Tuesday, September 27, 2022
(peek)
I haven't been on any long treks recently. L, who's the person with whom I've hiked the most in the last three years, was quite sick with Covid and I couldn't bear to be on any of our usual paths without her.
However, Big A (my second-best in this regard) was here on another 36-hour visit today, so we went for 'a full Sparty' at a very brisk pace and solved all our summer problems (theoretically at least)!
Pic: The Red Cedar with hints of yellow and red in the bordering foliage.
Monday, September 26, 2022
"what-ifs" and wistfulness
From the beautiful pictures on my FB feed, it would seem that it was homecoming weekend AND ALSO national daughters' day. I thoroughly marveled and appreciated at all the kids I used to know looking radiant and lovely and quite grownup. But I was also plagued with some "what-ifs" and wistfulness.
I'm going to take this moment to acknowledge my feelings...then I'm going to let them go as gently as a pebble into water... and let the ripples rise and close up in calm.
Sunday, September 25, 2022
Quiet
It was otherwise a quiet and fulfilling Sunday: UU meditation, a hang with JL at the Lebanese coffee shop, a chat with my sis and mom, a WhatsApp celebration with the cousins, weekend chores, a soak, groceries, dinner with all four kids, teaching prep, Navaratri invitations and menu-planning, a heart-warming chat with At while I dropped him back at his place, more teaching prep, and so to bed.
Saturday, September 24, 2022
yesterday's sunshine
try me twice
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