If you have ever stared suspiciously at the stars, you have wondered what it feels like to be pregnant. Both states stammer in the face of other-worldliness. In the suddenly quiet corner of the room,…
Browsing Category on love
something feels fleeting
Something feels fleeting. The deaths and beginnings. Watching the sun set from above. While samsara cycles below. Who am I to steal a seat in God’s balcony? Who am I entitled to so many reincarnations…
the world can handle it
I will come back to this blog; I’ve just been planning a wedding for the last 6 months (and abroad for 2.5 of those) – so please just forgive me. In the meantime, I do…
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…
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,…
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…
india is an arranged marriage
Village Faces, U.P. India, originally uploaded by seekingsol. (This is an excerpt from a personal journal entry from the first week when I arrived in India. I sometimes cringe and curse at the weird way…
love, picasso, parades & pilgrimage
So for the record, I am now officially giving exact change, correctly ordering vegetarian food, and making it three or (sometimes!) even four sentences deep into conversations. It’s probably not particularly exciting for anyone else,…