Tag: specialneeds
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Happy Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day is now all commercial. But I donot mind a little bit of celebrations in the middle of winter and the past 24 hrs I have been celebrating the same with my special one. A party at his program with games and food. He won a prize for scoring the most in the bean…
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Nature Therapy!
For Fandango’s Flash fiction challenge #206 Fiction inspired by the photo! Sending Fandango all the positive vibes for a quick recovery. Walking back from a doctor’s appointment the man felt hopeless. The list of tests, the medications made his head spin. As he slowly walked, the beautiful sunset caught his eye. He decided to sit…
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From the bottom of my heart
A few months back I wrote a post called when the waves stop (you can read in the link), that my boy would be performing at Sri Venkateshwara Temple, Pittsburgh. Yes, my boy did perform during Navaratri and it was a success story. We did not record but were surprised when friends sent me messages…
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CFFC: Things People Grow!
It was 70 degrees for us yesterday and it felt like spring. What a nice time to remember all the vegetables that was grown in our garden through the years. For CFFC: Things People Grow The green pumpkin was a surprise many years ago. We had just planted zucchini and for many months we did…
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Not in the routine!
Last weekend I spent a lot of time lying on the bed and binge watching Tintin on my ipad. I caught a bug and according to my younger one I was enjoying my life. I was not too sick but had to rest myself so I could get better fast for the week ahead. I…
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It’s February
We have a solid prediction from a very reliable source that it is going to be 6 more weeks of winter! Happy Groundhog Day All! I found this picture on my phone. I think it was a meme made by my younger one with help of snap. So true! A short month with just 28…
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Bloganuary Sets Down
Where is the best place to watch the sunset near you? As Bloganuary sets down on the last day of January I thank Mindy Postoff for posting the prompts and all the bloggers who participated along with me and encouraged me on this 31 day journey. It was a huge distraction for me and I…
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Bloganuary Day 30, Autobiography?
Prompt provided today? What would you title the chapters of your autobiography? I really laughed out loud reading today’s prompt. All month long the prompts asked us so many personal questions. Many days I did not hesitate to answer them since mine is a personal blog. I kept thinking I can just put all the…
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Bloganuary Day 29, New Learning
Prompt for today What is something you learned recently? This is really interesting since I just made a blogpost a couple of days back. In fact that was the only post I made on my own in the month of January. I just wrote for Bloganuary prompts so when this question popped up I felt…
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Bloganuary Day 28, A cake
Describe your perfect birthday cake. My tradition does not have cutting a cake for birthdays. Even after I got married and I came to this country, that was not a thing we did. But as my special one started understanding things he understood birthday means pizza and cake. We did not invite anyone but everyone’s…
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Bloganuary Day 27, Procrastination
What are the pros and cons of procrastination? I usually write and post my blogs as soon as they are posted or say within an hour. But today I got into so many things that I postponed and it is lunch time and I am just rushing off to write something. If I miss this,…
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The Meaning of Guru
For the past two weeks I have been attending Guru Gita classes. A verse in the text refers to the meaning of “Guru”. “Gu” represents, darkness or ignorance and the syllable “ru” stands for light or knowledge. So Guru is the one who dispels darkness or ignorance. The term Guru is now referred so casually.…
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Bloganuary Day 26, Multilingual
What language do you wish you could speak? Oh I would love to be multilingual. Is there any specific language? No there is not. I feel learning any new language is good for the brain. In fact on one Bloganuary question I did mention about my younger one not able to speak his mother tongue.…
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Bloganuary Day 25, Bhagavad Gita🙏
What is a song or poem that speaks to you and why? A picture of Lord Krishna being a charioteer, guides Arjuna in the battlefield. Bhagavad Gita, The song by Lord is a Holy Text of Hindus. It was a teaching done by Lord Krishna to Arjuna in the midst of the battle field to…
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Bloganuary Day 24, Expressing myself!
Prompt for today: How do you show love? My younger one calls me The Meany Mom. Yes, I show tough love. He loves that. So on days he is being pampered by me, he knows I am not in a great mood and I am going easy. When he was little, he had a hard…
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Bloganuary Day 23, A beautiful day!
Prompt for today: What’s a lie you tell yourself? Getting up and saying to myself it is going to be a beautiful day whatever self, nature or other forces are going to put on to me. I am going to be happy and smiling all day!!!! A winter wonderland it is today and it is…
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Bloganuary Day 22, Dreams
What was your dream job as a child? Few months back, my brother and his family came to visit us. I was asking my teenage niece what her ambition was and what she wanted to do when she grew up. At that point my memories went back nearly thirty years. I was pestering my Dad…
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Bloganuary Day 21, Favorite author
Prompt for today: Who is your favorite author? My favorite author is Kalki Krishnamurthy. Kalki Krishnamurthy was a Tamil writer and an Indian independence activist. Kalki was his pen name and he started a weekly magazine in Tamil called Kalki. Kalki died in the fifties but I started reading the magazine only in the late…
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Bloganuary Day 20, My home
Prompt for today: What irritates you about the home you live in? We have been living in our current home for the past eleven years. It is more than fifty years old and doesn’t have the open floor plan. We were living in a town home before that which was modern and new. But I…
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Bloganuary Day 19, Yellow I am!
I would like to call myself yellow colored. Maybe the color of gold. Having a gold heart is supposed to be good isn’t it. I am not an introvert and can mingle with anyone and can understand any kind of situation. I do have my limitations but I am not picky. I had to google…
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