Yesterday I kept my promise to myself to do a little time-traveling.
I started off with taking the Canada Line to Oakridge to check to see if they had any items I required. It turns out that the back to school rush is not the best time to shop as a lot of the merchandise had [...]
Can you be 23 already?
It seems like only yesterday
I held you in my arms
Your tiny blue hat perched
Atop the innocent face
A baby’s face but already
Oh so wise.
You were born at home
On a mattress in the living room
Without any respirators,
Incubators or the trappings
Of a hospital maternity ward.
There was only me,
Lillian our midwife,
Your mom and a friend with [...]
9 a.m. and we are gratefully back in Delhi’s Marina Hotel. The last twenty-four hours seems like a dream. We had arrived in Gaya yesterday after a tearful farewell with the Lodge staff who had all lined up, including the manager’s mother, to have their picture taken with us.
Gaya seemed even more filthy than it [...]
Karen is amazing. I return to the lodge to find that once again she has the whole staff in an uproar but this time they are moving furniture and cleaning. First it was our room, where everything was shifted, swept, washed, disinfected and put back and now she has them in the kitchen doing the [...]
» Read the rest of this entry ...It’s the evening before holi and in the surrounding fields, celebrations are already underway with the pounding of drums and the ululations of many voices. It seems to me that we have come through a great ordeal successfully and the sounds of the coming celebration echo the feelings of happiness in my heart. Yesterday, for [...]
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