Wednesday, July 09, 2025
Saturday, July 05, 2025
2 January 2025
Writing in a journal often means that you are offering yourself, baring
yourself without any kind of censure. In some of the diary writing years,
I have thought of publishing mine but it never happened that way because I was
too busy with many things and my journal writing endeavours mostly fizzled out
before the end of January. This year I want to write a journal that is worth publishing
and want to create positive changes in all spheres of life
I like beginning my New Year with a little bit
of introspection. Here, I am sitting with my pen and diary while the rest of
the family is sleeping. For me, writing is a way of life and I love confiding
in my diary almost every day unless overwhelmed with a busy work life. This
year, like almost all the years that I have gone by I want to begin with a
holistic goal setting of improving every part of my life including the
emotional, spiritual, physical and financial spheres of life.
Friday, July 04, 2025
1 January 2025
The New
Year began quietly at 0001 while I was busy writing in my journal. This has
been my habit for the last many years when I have found happiness in journaling
about the passing year and the coming one. Unlike childhood, when the New Year
began with prayers in the church with the Midnight Mass, the years since my
marriage in 2008 have been blessed with midnight musings and nothing else. I
have jumped like the proverbial monkey from faith to spirituality to religion
to nonbelieving all the time and its hardly news that I don't go to church any
longer though I am spiritual and read religious books of all kinds. There are sounds of firecrackers
coming from the neighbourhood and every year, it has been a special New Year
with the people singing Te Deum at the midnight mass.
Rain Raga
Beneath the banyan tree, a woman sat singing some ragas. She was singing in her melodious voice some songs that invited the monsoons. Th...