the Housefinches

and

Mummy Nose Best Just finshed watching Ms. Hurricane Hair KTB playing with her toys while her parents ate dinner ( Read more... )

If it is on, I must turn it off.

If it is off, I must turn it on.

( more ifs )

Went to my Google Reader after a long while, and wanted to share

this post by Krish Ashok

as a memorable one.

Many of us have such wonderful people in our lives, but few of us can write so articulately about them....so this is a double salute...to the woman depicted, and to the young man who does the depicting so well!

Reading...is such an amazing thing, when you think about it. Just imagine a series of marks giving one information, passing on ideas, firing one's inspiration, evoking strong emotions, tickling one's sense of humour, arousing one's imagination, eliciting memories...reading may give the same information to every reader, but the pictures it evokes in ( Read more... )

...and that's when she does this...


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kruthi sent me this "Mylapore is wonderful" video:

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I agree with the greatness of Mylapore, there are lots of things I enjoy very much there (see

my various posts about Chennai .... but I disagree with LOTS of other things. Is the Mami's duty only to cook for her husband, who seems so incompetent in the kitchen...is that something that he cannot ( Read more... )

We went to the Zoo today, as the weather was a balmy 4 deg C after a long spell of seriously sub-zero temperatures. One of the images that's stayed in my mind was a mother

TAKIN (click on that to find out more about the animal...it's a Himalayan antelope/goat ( Read more... )

People without any sense of humour, who always try to take the joy out of other people's lives. Just when you are enjoying something, they will come along and say how foolish it is or how wrong it is or something like that. The colour goes out of your joy unless you are very careful ( Read more... )

She's known to us as ...simply...Dadda...which was my sister-in-law's childish way of saying "dAdi mA" (paternal grandmother ( Read more... )

Approaching motherhood
Colours one's life, one's thoughts.
So it's fitting
That one's hands and wrists
Are filled with colour, too;
The rainbows that the little one will soon bring,
The good wishes that friends pour into one's life,
And the prayer that the baby will be healthy and happy.


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