celebrations
October 14, 2009
- He finds it weird that Indians claim him although he is not really one of them. Most expats would take it as part of the parcel. Not the winner of this year’s Nobel Prize for chemistry. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan is not mincing words when he says, “All sorts of people from India have been writing to me, clogging up my email box. It takes me an hour or two to just remove their mails. Do these ...
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August 14, 2009
- I can hear the drums. A bunch of young people will form a human pyramid and break a clay pot filled with curd and lots of money. Gods don’t come cheap anymore. The stakes are up. Because devotees are full of greed.Today is Janmashtmi, the birth of Lord Krishna. As a young boy he survived attempts to kill him because of divine intervention. He was like most boys and was raised by a cowherd and ...
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June 5, 2009
- It seems to this author that the writing life grows ever more complex, even if you live on the edge of the world in the middle of nowhere, like me. Not too long ago, I resented the chores attached to website design and maintenance, book publicity and tours, interviews and essays, ink-buying and paper jams. These details piled up like cicada skeletons in a Kentucky field and so did my anxiety ...
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May 25, 2009
- May 24 CELEBRATIONS “You wore a wrist corsage to the dump?”“You said to celebrate every activity,” I retorted to my sponsor.“Yes, by doing them with purpose. Not everything needs to be a production number. Sometimes just showing up is enough. Putting too much energy into preparation can leave you without resources. It’s okay to make an appearance, do the simple act and ...
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February 2, 2009
- We writers need all the signs of encouragement we can get, so today, I am happy to tell you, is the first day of Spring in the Celtic calendar. Today is Imbolc, Candlemass, The Feast of St Brigid, (or, for my US readers, Groundhog Day). But the name I like best for 2nd February is The Feast Of New Ewes' Milk. Humour me here, and try to imagine yourself back a thousand years, in those far off ...
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February 9, 2008
- Valentine’s Day is coming up. This is a time when I am especially proud of Singled Out. It is not sappy, not conventional, and it is just the right book for you and your enlightened single friends – or your coupled friends, for that matter. Here’s an excerpt about Valentine’s Day from Singled Out, plus some musings on why it is not single people who are having a hard time this ...
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