Jul 6, 2014 Awake in Real Time: Coffee-induced Meditations and Journal Entries, Music, Parenting/ Home-schooling / Family Music and other Notes
Walked with Hol in the morning. She was sedate and heeled well — a nice change from the crazy persona she projected yesterday.
Read aloud two beautifully illustrated and entrancingly written graphic novels (one based on Athena and the other on Poseidon) to S after lunch. She was instantly captivated, and re-read them by herself again and again. She’s been deep into Greek Mythology since I bought her a few wonderfully engaging books on it a couple of years ago. She remembers things I don’t. It’s amazing. Her favorite goddess are Athena, Artemis, Demeter, Hestia and Metis. And I think she fell in love with the Theseus shown in the Poseidon book. She rather likes, and feels sorry for, Poseidon’s Cyclops son, Polyphemus. She LOVED the three Fates show in the Athena book. Good taste!
Lots of planting in the evening. Very nice. Found a bunny in the garden, which appeared suddenly out of tall grasses, and sprang away into the hostas on the side. S helped with weeding.
Hol’s busy chewing on a water bottle. Got to rescue it.
Went up for a bit and listened to S practising guitar, improvising on a D minor scale, while Warren played the chords. Lovely! Holly listened to her, and then to us, when we sang a Beatles song together. She likes music, just as we all do.
Tags: #Dog, #Gardening, #Journal Entry, Family time with daughter, husband, Lazy Sunday
May 11, 2014 Parenting/ Home-schooling / Family Music and other Notes
Repletion Mode — An Other’s Day Poem
©May 11th, 2014
By Vijaya Sundaram
Mother Day yawns
I lie in bed.
Birds unfold the day.
I lie in bed.
Sounds of household peeling.
I lie in bed.
Sunshine splintering.
I lie in bed.
Cup of coffee in husband’s hand.
Bounce of daughter and dog on bed.
I arise, a sea creature,
From torpid dreams.
Tiredness rears over me
I drown in enervation.
Yet, slowly, slowly,
Depletion mode gives way,
Slowly getting replete again,
Slowly, slowly now.
Oh, so slowly.
I sit up and hug my child.
It’s Other’s Day.
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Tags: #Daughter, #Dog, #Original Poetry, completion, husband, Mother's Day