A dried leaf wept
yet shed no tear;
In the silence of a winter
night, it swayed until
dawn found it lying still.

Winter stood watching
so close at hand wanting, yearning,
aching to touch.
In the exact moment of connect
everything went still.

Night and dawn fought over it
curling, sheathing, they both sought
till wind came snarling, hurling, slamming
in the dark of the night
and the light of the day
and claimed one tiny shaken leaf
and took it away!

Challenges...

Memory holds strange textures of sounds and smells that paint the canvas of our life and then suddenly spreads them loose one night, in the distant future reminding one of past dreams, fears and anxities;

While working on a tongue twister today-"Dream machine streams amazing dreams" I asked the children to create their own dream machine and try and sell it to a group of customers. The children came up with amazing machines that could do just about anything.

Sometimes, I wish I could weild the option of simply wearing such an extraordinary ring or the fantastic dream goggles and switch the channel to watch my favourite dream play over and over again.

But alas like one wise 12 year old pointed out to the customers-the problem with dreams coming true was that till such time that we wish and the possibility exists of its not coming true or turning disastrous the excitement for the dream machine lives on, but the moment they begin to come true, one wishes for things to go back to normal as there is nothing new left to explore!

Challenges in life are like that! One shouldl just wait to see and hear where they might lead us!!!

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Changing patterns

29th January, 2007

In a blur of colours and patterns that changed around us almost every single moment that day, Abhishek and I in a small and quiet ceremony, tied the knot at the Guruvayur temple in Delhi.

We got married the Kerela way; he looked like a Rajasthani instead of the Kumaoni groom he was meant to potray and I represented my stock- a mixture of kashmiri and tamil origins!!!