Musings...

What a powerful word that generates all kinds of emotions in people. A word that is a taboo but it’s use is as pervasive as ever. No one wants to be tagged as one regardless of their actions. But as we see today the idea is alive and kicking.  When did we first become racist? Aren’t we all a human race? Who put these ideas in our heads that some people are inferior to us while some are superior? Who put the color in our eyes that we see humans as black and white and brown?  No child sees color when he’s born. If a white child sees black people as its parents, that’s what he believes to be true. He doesn’t question why the parents’ color is different than him. All that kid needs is love and care and safety. We grow up and we still believe that it’s all good until we hear these murmurs about how certain people who are different than us are inferior to us or we don’t mix with them. And so it begins. And we don’t stop at color. We then bring in ethnicity, religion, ...

If there’s one relationship that’s as hot as fire, as cold as a glacier, as hard as a diamond and as soft as a petal, it’s this. This is the relationship that becomes the foundation of who we will become in life. When we are young, moms are the safe haven, the comfortable place we all want to go to. As we grow up that haven becomes constricting and we want to break out. A few years out and we want to go back in!  As a mother of two most wonderful girls, I get it. I get why they want to go out and explore the world whereas I want to hold on to them for dear life! Even though I was never one to exploring much, I understand the world and the country that they are growing up in is much different than the one I grew up in. My maternal instinct needs to be reined in for them to make a life of their own:-) They just need to know that they can always come home no matter what life throws at them.  And with age I’ve realized that we women and particularly women as moms, are meant to be ...

So...this pandemic, huh. What a jolt to humanity about our fleeting existence. How vulnerable we are to anything and everything but how we still think we are in control. How insignificant we are in grand scheme of things. And yet instead of living everyday, as every wise man ever has said, we fight and struggle everyday for the future that’s unknown. Here we were planning for the future and putting things in place as optimistic humans usually do and, Bam! Talk about being blindsided. Suddenly the world became a very scary place. Not just for us, for our families far away and our loved ones in this country. For our kids and spouses and friends. Suddenly our community became so much more than we ever thought it was. Neighbors checking on neighbors, offering every kind of help. Strangers became acquaintances. And we realized we can survive this. It was like a veil had been lifted from our eyes and everything became clear. Took a teeny tiny virus to do what all the books and mythology and ...

After so many months and years of should I or shouldn’t I, here I am! So many thoughts and ideas and always wanting to put them down finally led me here. So, here we go:-) This will be a blog about everything under the Sun. No categories but life in general and what it throws at us everyday. Some thoughts will be poignant, some funny and some might be a tad bit angry. As I said, everything under the Sun. Until later, Cheerios