What strategies do you use to increase comfort in your daily life? Comfort is having everything you need to live a happy pleasant life. I live in the present. I have been focussing on working with the here and now. And it’s taken a lot of effort to learn to be satisfied with what I…… Continue reading Gru-ing my way through life
Tag: grateful
Anything, for harmony
What could you let go of, for the sake of harmony? Tara was around 4 years old when she had her pups. The first six weeks were a lot of fun. The first couple of weeks the pups could barely see anything and were immobile. And Tara would come and sit down around them every…… Continue reading Anything, for harmony
Tuned in
What is your favorite genre of music? I don’t remember when Dad got the TV, but I have these vague memories of a group of kids sitting on the floor and watching the TV in my living room. We used to come in around 5.45 pm to watch the start of the 6 pm broadcast,…… Continue reading Tuned in
Blub blub blub!!
Describe your most memorable vacation. December 2015, Andaman Islands Sometime in 2014, my older sibling had completed her dive certification and decided to ensure all of us completed the certification as well. So, towards thes second half of 2015 we started to plan a dive trip to the Andamans. The most important thing here is…… Continue reading Blub blub blub!!
A little about love
What’s your definition of romantic? During my grade 7 vacations, Dad hired a VCR player and rented out a few VHS tapes for us to watch. We were only allowed to watch 2 new movies every day. That meant we got to watch close to 14 new movies a week that would cover the most…… Continue reading A little about love
Taaaatu!
How do you express your gratitude? Teaching gratitude to my older kid was very easy, she would meet your eye, smile, and say a polite thank you. The younger kid, on the other hand, always turned beet red, opened his mouth and eyes wide, and looked down, so getting him to acknowledge and say ‘thank…… Continue reading Taaaatu!
It was never ours.
What are you most worried about for the future? Yuddhakaale shastrabhyasam (last-minute preparations for war) never worked. It never worked during the war. It’s never going to work in real life either. But, I always tried to prove this wrong. And much to my irritation, Dad had ample opportunities to repeat this proverb to me.…… Continue reading It was never ours.
Yours toothfully!
Have you ever had surgery? What for? Back in the day, long before mobile phones became a thing, most of our communication was via word of mouth. For instance, as a practicing advocate, Mum used to go to court every day. The court complex is like a humungous college campus; cases are heard in the…… Continue reading Yours toothfully!
Graze-touch-kiss
What are your daily habits? I don’t know what the practice for other sports’ warmup is, but when we were practicing gymnastics, we had to start running 3 rounds around a 400m outdoor track. At 5 pm, all the students would rush down the stairs and start running around the track to complete the warm-up…… Continue reading Graze-touch-kiss
Start small
Are there things you try to practice daily to live a more sustainable lifestyle? Sustainability takes forever and that’s the pointWillem McDonough We decided to visit Muscat a couple of months before we relocated, sort of like a recce of the place we were going to adopt. We landed at the old airport, which had…… Continue reading Start small
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