On New Year’s Day yesterday, I spent a lot of time thinking about my New Year’s two years ago. I had flown over to London to spend the holiday with Shaan. We had plans to meet up with a couple of his friends on New Year’s Eve, and that evening we were sitting at his family home beforehand getting ready… Continue reading The Thoughtfulness of a Good Heart
My mom is a fantastic talker. I don’t think anyone would dispute this. She’s just great at talking — she has a brilliant command of words and just knows how to use them in a compelling way. One aspect of this is her use of expressions. All of us have certain expressions or phrases that are… Continue reading “Everything’s in Sync”
We’re all familiar with the famous line from Romeo and Juliet: “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.” Common interpretation of Shakespeare’s iconic words is that the names of things do not affect what they really are, that names don’t really matter. Although I can certainly… Continue reading What’s in a [Nick]Name?
A special habit of my mom’s was getting to know the everyday strangers in her life. Who are these ‘strangers’? They are the people we commonly see in our day-to-day lives, but whom we may give little attention to, be them grocery store clerks or waiters or repairmen. We may view them as people providing us with a service; accordingly, we might make small… Continue reading Befriending the Everyday Strangers
Lessons from Anju 