I like visiting churches and chapels, the peace and calm that emanates from them provides an opportunity to contemplate life, death and everything in between. During my trips here and there, whenever I came across churches, I always stopped for a short visit. I guess this fascination with churches harks back to my childhood in …
A Few Churches at the tip of the Indian Peninsular… Read More »
Attended a retreat at St. Theresa’s church recently, and Fr. Stan Fortuna, a Franciscan Friar from New York, was in charge of leading the prayer service. He is entertaining and quite talented too, he played a variety of instruments, and mixed the different sounds up using a kind of mixer and he rapped and sang and he …
During my days at Santhi Nilayam, I had a lot of nuns and priests as friends. In fact, most of the contacts on my phone were either fathers or sisters. Many of them still keep in touch, and whenever I come home I try to visit them in whatever new convent or parish they have …
After a long long time, I visited the special school I used to work in, and the kids have all grown up…tiny tots now taller than me and sprouting facial hair!!! I was flummoxed… gosh, time changes everyone and everything. Wonder what changes they saw in me… anyway, I was just happy to be back there. …
Santhi Nilayam, School for the Mentally Challenged… Read More »
I strive to be cool and nonchalant and a nonconformist and all that… but one thing seems wired deep inside me, the ability to let my emotions go all over the place. It’s so easy for me to get from one end of the spectrum to the other, from fits of uncontrollable laughter to overwhelming …
A trip home is letting the magic of nature, surround and embrace you. Everywhere you look, beauty abounds and you can feel her breath pulsing in your veins. She calms and soothes the reluctant city dweller, and her touch is overwhelming. The soft cold breeze as it dances around you, the rain drops that linger …
Had an exam coming up and couldn’t tune into the country music station, cause I didn’t want to be distracted by trying to understand the lyrics and guessing who the artist was. So I tuned into the the station (HitKast) that plays ‘more hits per hour than any other radio station on the planet’, their …
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To take a break from all the mainstream commercial movies that pass off as entertainment today, I decided to watch a few Hallmark movies. These movies are like a grown up version of Disney, overloaded with cuteness and romance, and completely decent throughout. A few are even inspirational in nature, they speak about faith and …
So the parents had gone on a Holy Land Trip to Jordan, Israel where they visited Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Nazareth and Cairo. They were pretty excited and I was excited cause I would get to be home alone, which let me tell you is a rare occurrence. I always seem to be surrounded by people… not …
So Facebook, where to start… you were rather entertaining and interesting at first, but now it has become more of a chore using you. Friends are good, but the over sharing of information is not. I mean, seeing their birthday or vacation pictures once in a while was good, a neat way to say hi …