Nov 3, 2015 Daily Life

So, on Friday, my daughter and I leave for India.  We’ll be flying on Emirates (which, I’ve heard, is an excellent airline).  We’ll be gone from the 6th through the 23rd of November.

We’re excited, because this is the first time she’ll be celebrating Diwali, and that too, in the land where it’s meant to be celebrated!  It’s going to be lovely.  I’ve told her what to expect.  She’s quite excited.

I haven’t posted much for the past few days, because our schedule has been more hectic than ever, and also, I haven’t done my usual stay-up-at-night-and write routine.  Trying to change my bad old ways.  Alas, I’ll now have to learn to write during the morning hours, which is when I’ll have more time.  But what do I do what that time?  I whittle it away.

I’m missing writing poetry, and I do find that if one does not practise one’s discipline and art, it simply won’t happen.  We cannot wait around looking for lightning to strike, or some other damned metaphor like that (gosh, I am feeling unpoetic — how unusual for me!).  We have to make lightning happen.  Okay, I’ll stop with that uninspired metaphor now!

In any case, I’m hoping to blog from India.  Perhaps, I’ll write more before I leave on Friday.  I’m missing this space!

Meanwhile … mundane things prevail, like cell phone activation, laundry, and learning how to set up an i-Phone (I finally caved to the world of SmartPhone technology, and got on a very nice data plan with a progressive phone company, and got three free i-Phone 5s, one for each of us.  Very simple plans, no fancy apps, no extravagant gigabyte consumption.  I promise to take some nice pictures with it!).  And apart from that, I’ve read a lot, taken my daughter to her various home-school activities, taken the dog out forwalks, tutored a kid, taught guitar … these things occupy my days.  All of it seems tame compared to my mad, crazy, whirlwind schedule for the past seventeen years, but it’s still hectic.  Work expands to fill the time … etc.

I like this life.

And, I shall keep my appointment with my Muse on the flight to India.  Euterpe had better keep me company!!

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Tags: First Diwali in India for daughter, India trip, mundane matters

Feb 23, 2013 Awake in Real Time: Coffee-induced Meditations and Journal Entries

Nothing new yesterday or today — sorry!

I promise I’ll write tonight and tomorrow, though.  Possibly three blog-posts!  Who knows?!

What’s new?

House Party at my place today!  That’s what!

This means only one thing!  An excuse to clean, clear, wipe and dust much of the house, most of the day before yesterday, yesterday and today.

In my home, we need an excuse, or else everything goes straight to hell.  This week, there was an explosion of books, toys, student papers on desk, correspondence, clothes, hair-ties, ribbons, projects, sheets with designs, numbers, drawings, dust bunnies in unsuspected corners.  My excuse?  I was enjoying my Feb. break.  Now, there’s no excuse.  A party!  That is what makes all of us scurry around, cleaning, clearing the debris of a busy, but happy life.

How mundane!  I like it.  My head is filled with mystery and strangeness.  The mundane is a welcome change.

Tags: mundane matters