Notes on being at home ... in Delhi...in Mussoorie.
A blessed morning at the Arpana Guest House in Vasant Vihar. Beautiful, cool, fragrance of frangipani drifting in the shafts of morning light. It is good and peaceful. And friend Katy sent a David Brooks column with these words, reflecting on a TED talk by Sting:
The person going back home has to invent a coherent tradition out of discrete moments
and tease out future implications. [She] has to see the world with two sets of eyes: the
eyes of [her] own childhood self and the eyes of [her] current adult self. [She] has to circle
back deeper inside and see parts of [herself] that were more exposed then than now. No
wonder the process of going home again can be so catalyzing.
The process of going home is also reorienting. Life has a way of blowing you off course.
People have a way of forgetting what they originally set out to do. Going back means
recapturing the original aspirations.
Here are views of my life in the last week ... my miraculous gas heater which kept the temp above 50 in my little room .. I'll be back with comments later. A wonderful 8 days of work, reminiscence, looking back and forward, truly informing whom I am.
A blessed morning at the Arpana Guest House in Vasant Vihar. Beautiful, cool, fragrance of frangipani drifting in the shafts of morning light. It is good and peaceful. And friend Katy sent a David Brooks column with these words, reflecting on a TED talk by Sting:
The person going back home has to invent a coherent tradition out of discrete moments
and tease out future implications. [She] has to see the world with two sets of eyes: the
eyes of [her] own childhood self and the eyes of [her] current adult self. [She] has to circle
back deeper inside and see parts of [herself] that were more exposed then than now. No
wonder the process of going home again can be so catalyzing.
The process of going home is also reorienting. Life has a way of blowing you off course.
People have a way of forgetting what they originally set out to do. Going back means
recapturing the original aspirations.
Here are views of my life in the last week ... my miraculous gas heater which kept the temp above 50 in my little room .. I'll be back with comments later. A wonderful 8 days of work, reminiscence, looking back and forward, truly informing whom I am.
