Browsing Category on love

stretched

For those of you worried, please don’t. Writing, meditating, metaphor-chasing, psychoanalyzing – they are my ways of unwinding a tangled life. Yet my life hasn’t many knots in it these days. It’s blissfully simple. I…

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blessings barish

“Rain ko, Hindi me, kya khati hain?” He looks at me, awaiting an answer. But I only caught the inflection at the end of the sentence that hinted of a question. Shoot. He’s asked me…

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song of praise

(I just returned from attending a full-weekend wedding. This morning, I dive back back into my archives, but thought I’d post my reading in the ceremony, as Love is, after all, the most foreign, enticing,…

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arranged love marriage

IMG_5263, originally uploaded by seekingsol. One of my students recently quipped, “…arranged marriages give me faith in marriage.” And as quickly as I agreed with her, I wondered, “what a once-foreign idea with which I…

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soft spot

(Evening update follows the original post.) ***** The surgeon’s assistant finishes his explanation of the procedure and asks, “So do you have any final questions, concerns or requests?” “Yea. My family knows me for having…

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