What if we apply Darwin’s theory of Natural Selection to culture? Often times I wonder if the degradation of some cultures, the drowning out of ancient traditions, languages is just natural selection at work. The “Americanization” of the world as it were. Is it really the west forcing its culture on the East? Or is […]
Originally posted on theshadowseeker:I want to tell stories. Happy stories. I want to talk about the view. The view from the top of that mountain, that rock, this building and his room. I want to speak of the men I fell in love with and how they laughed. How their hands were different and…
Last friday packed tight into our Toyota corolla- five of us drove up to Acadia, Maine. As Navigator and proprietor of the largest butt, I got an automatic shotgun, while Malli- Mr. Long Legs had to stretch out in the back with the girls. Tha (dad) drove allowing us to make videos and bellow corny […]
I think heartache is one of the greatest accomplishments and abilities of human kind. It sets us apart from the animals, and the extraterrestrials. I love, Love. I love Falling, and I love Loving. Its exhilarating. Picking up these cold and scattered hearts; warming them with my love. Sometimes I think I was born to […]
A Scary Story from Indian Study Abroad. (PLEASE READ. ESPECIALLY THE COMMENTS ARE EYE-OPENING AND JARRING.) I can’t say i enjoyed this article, but i certainly related to it. I studied abroad in India. It was a great experience, I traveled, had fun, made friends, stepped outside of my comfort zone. It was marvelous. Definitely one […]
With the recent Commonwealth Summit putting a lot of media attention (mostly negative media attention) on our little island nation i’ve been hearing and watching news from both sides of the argument. A natural defensiveness rises within me while reading or hearing the angry calls for an international inquisition into the human rights violations during […]
Reblogged from The Fight In Me: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX3H8pwSMAs&w=640&h=480] Read more… 4 more words Gets me every time.. :) This kind of laughing... ache in my belly laughing only happens with these crazy boys of mine.
When the sun shines through and the ice melts, my heart will rise from the winter healed and whole. Ready for the next big adventure. Windows, doors open, letting in the light (and the dark). No reticence, no fears, no mistrust, no doubts. Open, clear, free and unharmed. Finally.Filed under: The Fight
I’ve been itching to write this for awhile. At times i think, if i take all my cricket-related status updates from Facebook and make a compilation that would essentially sum up my feelings. And yet when i sit down to write, i don’t know where to start, and how to keep myself from rambling- trying […]
I still feel like this teenager… despite the 7 years that have passed since these videos were shot. (I think I still look like this too. We all do.) It’s funny to think that Mac is getting married next year, and Annie is halfway through Medical school. And me.. Well except for small reminders (like […]
Originally posted on TIME:The average American adult laughs just 18 times a day. That’s down from the eight laughs an hour they enjoyed when they were five years old. This, according to emerging research in the behavioral sciences, is a big problem. These days, comedy is everywhere — on television, in movies, and all…
*Credit for this wisdom, simple lesson goes to Rev. Hantane Dhammagawesi who i have mentioned previously here, as my spirit guide. It is common misunderstanding that Buddhism is about recognizing the Dissatisfaction/the suffering/the sorrow in life. But the true premise of Buddhism is about learning how to remove dissatisfaction in order to live in eternal […]
We humans are very good at sweating the details, and yet,as morbid as this might sound, we all die in the end. Everyone’s end is just the same, all stories end the same way. No matter where in life you come from, rich, poor, good, bad, beautiful, ugly: Everyone dies. Yet if we’re lucky, when […]
I peel off this skin. Puke away the bile. A sweat of memories drips down my face. Drops that linger on my eyelashes. But not for long. Pieces of my life, fragments of a broken life wash down the drain. That’s enough. The time has come. Step forward. New life.Wholeness. Rebirth. I Rise. Filed under: […]
I got a call early this morning that my cousin has “Attended Age” and the ceremony is on Monday morning. Would I be able to attend? At first I felt the Westerner in me leaning no, as a blur of excuses rushed through my head. But I ignored my instinct and agreed. The whole thing [...]
“Meh, I heard from Dharini, who heard from her sister’s son’s girlfriend. Apparently, Shamini was hanky-panky-fying with Anjalika’s fiance. Anjalika found out, and the women had a roaring bloody fight right in the middle of Cinnamon Grand. One of them ended up in the fountain and the other one was escorted out by hotel security!!!” […]
Reblogged from NewsFeed: The only thing Somali pirates hate more than not kidnapping people is "Oops I Did It Again" by Britney Spears--at least according to merchant navy officer Rachel Owens. In a bid to deter the pirates from approaching supertankers on the east coast of Africa and attempting to kidnap their crews, ships have […]
Reblogged from I Am Begging My Mother Not To Read This Blog: Every damn time someone in my facebook feed posts something like this, I click it. Every damn time. We all have this facebook friend, right? People you genuinely love and admire. People you like hanging out with. People you invite to your birthday […]
There is a lot to be said about race relations in America. With protests and riots sparking up in various states is clear that there is a problem. The question that America is focused on is not so much “why” people are rising up, but “how” people are showing their displeasure about the state of […]