Hi – I am back again after a one-day gap! Lazy days here at our holiday home at Sagar. Most Companies I work with as a Consultant are busy with their year-end targets (the financial year here ends 31st March) and don’t really want us around at this time. Also, Chandan (my son) and Lekha (my daughter-in-law) had gone off to Thailand for a holiday so Ratna said she would get bored stiff at Bangalore so let’s go to Sagar…….
The first week is over, and we are planning to stay till next Sunday – the first time we have stayed so long (2 full weeks!). I landed here with good intentions of getting in a lot of work done on the side, but frankly have done very little. Have done a lot of exploration – started this blog, became alive once more on Twitter, saw several wonderful TED talk videos which I had downloaded but had never managed to see!
One of the things I have really enjoyed this time has been the quality time I could spend reading! I am reading James Michener’s Hawaii – an epic novel, wonderfully written, which starts from the time nature was throwing up volcanoes millions of years ago which erupted to create these beautiful islands. Michener has a wonderful way of going into great detail and then stepping back and moving ahead tens or sometimes hundreds of years while still keeping the thread of the story intact. What an author! He has painted a thrilling picture of the original Tahiti island where the natives, fed up with a new God insisting on too many human sacrifices, decided to set off on their double canoe through thousands of miles of unknown ocean to reach what is now Hawaii! From there he goes on to how Calvinist missionaries from New England changed the face of the islands, and on to the arrival of the Chinese and the Japanese, and the annexation of the islands into the United States. I still have a quarter of the book left, and am looking forward to the adventures ahead!
Meanwhile, in our little garden, flowers continue to bloom in the warm sunshine!
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