Year end notes

A difficult year with a long sought after career switch to creative space.

They say, creativity flourishes with poverty. I have effectively become poor, but creativity is yet to bloom.

The bright spot of the year was meeting my friend Sree Kumar from school after nearly two decades.

Cannot help being grateful to have come across:

Kim Klassen of www.shuttersisters.com

Jerry Jones of www.shadowhousecreations.blogspot.com

&

Don Talwar of www.seocontentlab.com

Thank you for taking me to a different level of mind space.

Brave heart

NH 47 passes by our small town. Before the liberalization of our economy ours was a small town, most of us crossed this highway over to go to the other side without much trouble. But as our country has grown leap and bounds, our little town too has become crowded and the highway busy. Only we the locals did not realize it, trying to cross the road in carefree abandon till avoidable accidents made us sit up and take notice.

So whenever one of us get run down by the bus or the speeding cars and trucks, Ali Ikka, who runs a tea stall close to the bus stop, is the first to run to the rescue of the unfortunate. The latest was a few weeks ago, he really had a tough time picking up the severed limps of our neighbors. I might have presented this without much emotion, these accidents have become many and we have did nothing to avoid it and I am very much disappointed about it, but for Ali Ikka, I honestly hope the Muncipal authorities would award him for his heart.

Christmas

yet another year, of joy and togetherness,
of home coming and friendship,
the day has just went by,
but am still holding on to,
the spirit of christmas.

Nurses RIP

The two young nurses from Kerala, lost their lives, while saving their patients at the ICU of the hospital which caught fire, in Calcutta. When so much of not so good news were in circulation about the nurses from Kerala, your commitment to your job and the way you gave up your lives saving the ones under your care is an inspiration and highly praiseworthy.

The Kerala government gave them a burial complete with full state honors, rightly due to the worthy daughters.

I just hope and pray nursing will soon become in India a highly paid profession just like the IT jobs and these girls will get the respect and recognition they deserve.