We decided to visit the “Valley of Fire” on one of our days in Vegas… Of all these years coming here we had missed this place… just an hour drive from the strip… Our six year old was not very amused… he tried persuading us to revisit Excalibur and circus circus… where he says there are more small kid’s games rather than big kid’s games… … Continue reading Valley of Fire, Kids, Trust and some Random Thoughts
Today it rained…. like every year… the first one this year…. as usual the summer had locked up a whole chest of memories, faces, events, images and tastes from the ever desiring past…. the fragrance in the air is now irresistible… the fragrance born when the rain blankets the earth and makes love throughout the night…. Every year every rain pours that intoxicating past on … Continue reading What the rain tells me
Yesterday after the Halloween “trick or treats” and after my scheduled daily calls from work at night as I sit down to read a few lines… Our younger one who was still awake (courtesy to his afternoon Nap) asks me “can you read me a big book” Thinking he should be referring to the size of the book I tell him “yes go get the … Continue reading Neruda and our six year old
As human beings we have a consistently increasing ability to learn and teach… and of course an intelligently cultivated skill to forget…. This in one way also probably defined our transitions in the latter parts on the evolutionary road… Some even religiously forget the ape connection…. But what we have also acquired in this process is a strong inhibition to accept that we learned something … Continue reading Learning Teaching Forgetting and Breathing
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It is sad to note how much people get fooled by those who claim to change things around by moving a few stones or drawing a few columns and by claiming to read the movement of stars and planets that they say constitute your destiny. Yes I am talking of the con artists who come out and take advantage of vulnerable good individuals, trapping them … Continue reading Godmen, Godwomen and other Sidekicks to God
Once Jiddu Krishnamurti was traveling in a car and Pupul jayakar and another eminent personality (whose name fails my brain now) were sitting in the back seat discussing the true meaning of awareness and conscious…and the discussion got heated with both of them opening up their knowledge boxes in response to the other. Both of them were influenced a lot by Jiddu (Pupul even wrote … Continue reading Jiddu, Gurdjeiff, Awareness, Waking Sleep and some thoughts
When we look at Vending Machines the first thing that comes to our mind is convenience. WIthout having to leave the building and go out to a shop, you can get something to munch in your office. But the same Vending Machine can become a curse if you are not sure how to use them. Over the top in many companies they are subsidized and … Continue reading Stop subsidizing your Vending Machine
When we look at Vending Machines the first thing that comes to our mind is convenience. WIthout having to leave the building and go out to a shop, you can get something to munch in your office. But the same Vending Machine can become a curse if you are not sure how to use them. Over the top in many companies they are subsidized and … Continue reading Stop subsidizing your Vending Machine
We use to live in a world where they said that too much sleep was the sign of laziness. The interesting this is that this thought went too far that now we battle the problems of having less sleep. Is’t that ironic, We change our lifestyles hoping for the better and it back fires. What no one ever really gave thought is even initially it … Continue reading Is Sleep your real Enemy?
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