Day: December 30, 2022

Fall, glorious fall!

Shhhhhh.

Avec my Saturday morning haferflocken (oatmeal, thank you, Norman!), I watch a children’s odyssey program and I inhale the most wondrous collection of intriguing tidbits.

Saint Exupery, a north star for me from wee-dom,  said: 

Pumpkin, pumpkin, what kind of word is pumpkin?

Rain! Rain! Rain!

Oh world, there you are, but wait a minute, Snake Medicine again?

As a girl in South India, my sister and I had the incredible good fortune to study with one of the prima bharatanatyam dancers in the country, as she was on maternity leave for two years.

Sitting, watching a giant hawk circle and glide in its magnificence while two baby hummingbirds innocently flit from blossom to branch to me.

I took a bath in the wind today

On June 4th, 1957, my mother, father, two older brothers, younger sister, nanny, and I, climbed the gangplank of the SS Mauretania in New York City, waving good-bye to my grandpa, who thought he would never see us again, as we were heading for exotic, mysterious India, on the other side of the earth.

The cold drink display in Whole Foods is in the very front of the store and impossible to ignore if one has one’s eyes open.