When I visit temples, I notice the beauty with which the garlands are made for Gods! My father-in-law was the first one to notice the way a rose garland was made and commented on it.. after that I am not able to miss the detail when I look at garlands. I committed myself to learn the technique. Sharing what I have learned thus far..
A New Year or birthday or any event that we hold close, is an oppotunity that we take to embark on explicitly change or improve ourselves. Sometimes it is our work, sometimes it is the time we spend with family, sometimes our career growth and other times it might be the time we get to spend on what really matters to us.
Continue reading “New beginning in 2020”In my life, I have felt that a woman’s priority in life does not remain the same at all points of time through her life. She juggles between her personal, family, work/education and community. There are multiple battles to be faced and overcome in every aspect of life and in every role she plays. I have seen my grandmother trying to focus on cooking for a family of 15, four meals a day and maintaining meal time and sleep time as a scheduled activity, giving that generation a better grasp on self care and personal health. I have seen my mother step out of the home to work and support my father, managing upward/downward and peer politics, and still ensuring family and personal life was not impacted. She always had time for us.
Continue reading “Priorities evolve across generations”There comes a point in life when we think do we know what we wanted to have time in life to read, learn, understand and practice! When I was transitioning through that phase of life, I realized I knew stuff about work, and folks at work knew me. Pretty much – that summed up my life! For anyone working in a Corporate multinational organization in the IT space, that would mean – life was work and work was life! Everything was always about multitasking and while I started getting good at it and mastered it, Life had its own way to get me back on track! This blog series of mine is to share what I have come to learn, enjoy and appreciate from life!
Continue reading “Ignorance is bliss”