Last night and this morning I looked up at the full moon, which is supposedly the smallest moon of the season, and saw Venus and Mercury so clearly that I didn’t believe my eyes. Isn’t that the case, that wonder and mystery is presented to us every day and we at first don’t believe what we are seeing. Daily life tends to make miracles seem like flights of fancy. A friend wrote from India where…
So to know me is to know that I dream of going to India. Previous plans have been thwarted by another dream and that was to become a mother (check). But India remains for me as tops on my bucket list and now it is just a matter of when. So I was thrilled when students from Tulane and friends of Tatjana’s and now mine came over before they departed on their six-month trip to…
We watched a fabulous animated film last night called, Sita Sings the Blues, which I highly recommend. You can get it on Netflix, but you can even see it free here. The animation is so original and imaginative that it draws you into this parallel life, the modern one and the historical one (Ramayana). But the film itself was not made without turmoil. The artist Nina Paley used her own life trials for the modern…