Kadmanivasi. My Blog. Geeta Ramani

Towards the end of December, I started pondering over my New Year resolution. I had one every year, but broke it more often than build on it. I used to resolve – to be happy always, to be cheerful and friendly …only to realize that none of it worked, when I wanted it the most! With time, my personal battles grew….the death of my mother, loneliness, a semi-retired life, foreign shores, relocating permanently in unfamiliar surroudings, loss of familiar chores and roles, boredom, all within the year and it took its toll! One is familiar with the adage - only change is constant, but it requires that much effort to cope with constant change! I was hurt and bitter by turns, sometimes angry and frustrated and these emotions came in the way of my resolutions! How I wished to maintain my sanity, and at the same time enjoy myself, savor life and indulge in all her variety! I could do it all if only I could make some life style changes! I decided to do it at once! It is one mo...

I spend a lot of my time these days, just surfing the internet and I find that I am greatly interested and attracted to topics on decluttering! In fact, I seem to have taken a fancy to organizing and organizers and then I remembered my big to-do box and that surely could do with a lot of organizing! Files, diaries, books, magazines, notes, chits of paper with articles written and marked for later use! It had to be sorted now, else it never would get done. So today, I decided to go after it! And what a Pandora’s box it was…..recipes, more recipes and still more and more recipes! Along with a lot of articles on exercises, paper-hobbies, embroidery, knitting, sewing, gardening and tips on how to manage one’s home.  So one last time, I travelled back, down memory lane, to recollect, remember and relish those moments before reassigning them to the dustbin forever!! Let me first acknowledge those who inspired and motivated me to take up the arts. My sister-in-law, Padma, helped me to...