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2023 - The Year That Was

Places impact you for a variety of reasons. And the same place impacts different people in different ways. This is especially true when it comes to spiritual experiences, where every single person’s experience is unique. And personally, every spiritual experience is unique, the same person can have different deeply spiritual experiences at different places, at different times. This thought has emerged because of my own experiences over the years, but especially so this year, with different and unique experiences at various places I have visited recently. I began this year with a visit to Baroda (Vadodara) with friends. It was meant to be a relaxed trip, a touristy trip, with our sons. We enjoyed ourselves to the hilt, but the highlight of that trip was a visit to the Lakulisha temple at Pavagadh. It was the iconography of the temple that I connected with, and I spent a few hours simply lost in the details of the figures carved around the temple. There was an indefinable connect with

The Junior Wanderer

Samhith has been taking up quite a lot of space on my blog recently.... After all, my life does revolve around him and his activities.....He is the main reason I am at home and have so much time and matter to blog! Well, of late, I have been feeling that it is time to give him his own space, at least on the WWW and allow him to express himself. As of now, he has the least inclination to write anything himself, but then he is just six and a half, and has just about learnt to write......But he loves seeing his name and his work on my blog, and loves all your comments and encouraging words. He knows most of your names, at least your screen ones, and asks about some of you regularly...... 

 Anyway, I have finally decided to start a separate blog just for him and his doings.... As of now, I shall be doing all the writing, and simply putting up his work...... mostly as an encouragement for his creativity.... and an effort to make him sit in one place for at least a little while....  I have transferred some of my posts about him to the new blog... which is also on blogger, by the way......

The first new post on the blog is up, so please do head over and take a look. He isn't really happy with the title, but we have been unable to think of a better one..... We have thus arrived at a compromise - the title stays till we think of a better one....

So, head over to The Junior Wanderer and take a look. Please do leave your comments, and tell us what you think......



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  1. Hey! Junior Wanderer is a good idea! And I really like the new look of your blog!

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  2. awesome idea...u r one creative mom.

    I guess he will be the only one in his class to have a blog of his own... :P

    Way to go Samhith !! :)

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  3. A space for Samhith..Thats cool. Looks like he wants an identity of his own and hence the dislike for the junior title. Though its a fact.

    Liked the new template and it goes well with your header pic.

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  4. Hi Anu
    Nice work there. A mother when she is with the kid spending quality time cannot be substituted with any thing else. I did the same like you.and when my son was in 6th standard I started working , that too working at my pace and convenience.. Looking back I feel I have given my best and the results are also good.

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  5. The blog is looking good...and thanks for sharing.

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  6. @Usha: thanks...... he just doesnt like the name, and insists on saying that its not 'his'blog, but 'mine'.

    @shyamgovind: thanks a lot.....hes certainly the first to have a blog, or even know what one is..... but i have told him that he can do it himself only when hes older..... at least old enough for him to understand the pitfalls....

    @jaysree: thanks a lot....and u have hit the nail on the head... he doesnt want it to be too associated with me..... but i have tried to explain to him that as of now his blog can only be connected to mine... he needs to grow a bit older for him to have his 'own' blog....glad u liked the template...

    @chitra: thanks a lot..... i hope when the time comes, i can look back with the same satisfaction.. how old is your son now????

    @kitchen sinks: thanks a lot!

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  7. All the best with the Junior Wanderer.:)

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  8. My son is grown, already working. Finished his engineering 2 years back

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  9. gr8 idea :) guess i'll copy this as soon as mine is old enuf to walk and talk :)

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  10. Great look of you blog!
    Nice that you initiated a blog all for him and his activities.

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