Essays

I\’m Just Like You, Mom.

I call out to my children, ripe into their youthful years, an umpteen number of times. Sometimes they do not respond.

What you taught me that day was winning a race is not as important as having a friend to slow you down and savor every moment of it.

The din overpowers you. Frustrated, you jump and shriek and when the shrill noise ensues, you cover your ears and shut your eyes.

Far away from the mundane, the routine and the to do lists that filled our daily lives, our only plan for the coming days was to live without a plan.

I could hear the words reverberating in my core. Poornam stands for \”Complete\” or \”Whole\” in Sanskrit.

Somewhere in the vast plains of the Savannah, a leopard lies in ambush to capture his prey.