Have you ever heard the story of The Elephant Rope?
04/08/21 “Once there was a woman who was passing by some huge elephants, who were only secured by a tiny rope. She asked the trainer, “Why are they tied to such a tiny rope, why don’t they just break free?” The trainer smiled and explained that the elephants are trained by being tied to this […]
Choose Wisely
03/08/21 My young son asked me one day, if he had ever made me cry. Because he said “I don’t remember ever seeing you cry.” I replied & said, “The first time I cried was when I first held you in my arms & the sheer joy and the feeling of love made me drop […]
Lessons From Sports
02/08/21 It is Olympics season and I remember a chat I has with a friend recently. One of my friends asked “Why do you pay so much money for your son to do all his sports”? Well I have a confession to make; I don’t pay for my son to do sports. Personally, it does […]
Why You Should Spend Time and Money on Your Friendships
01/08/21 On the occasion of ‘Friendship Day’, Amidst our effort to rekindle friendships, the most depressing thing about the impact of Pandemic has been the growing loss of close associations and friendships. Even with all the communication tools literally in our pockets, we are as lonely as ever if not more. You can see the […]
Listen to the whisper …or wait for the brick
A young and successful executive was traveling down a neighborhood street, going a bit too fast in his new Jaguar. He was watching for kids darting out from between parked cars and slowed down when he thought he saw something. As his car passed, no children appeared. Instead, a brick smashed into the Jag’s side […]
Learn to be still
How different would the world be If we spent as much time listening to our conscience as we did listening to others. If we respond to the calls of our conviction as quickly as we answer to the ring of technology in our pockets. All this noise, all these inputs, all this information, and we […]
The house with the golden windows
A little girl lived in a small, very simple, poor house on a hill, she would play in the small garden and as she grew she was able to see over the garden fence and across the valley to a wonderful house high on the hill – and this house had golden windows, so golden […]
The Salmon Run
Salmon is a common name for species of ray-finned fish in the family – Salmonidae. They are commonly found in the tributaries of the North Atlantic and Pacific Ocean. Though Salmons are born in the fresh waters of the rivers, they migrate to the sea to develop and grow. And then they travel back hundreds, […]
In The Beginning
In the beginning of David Foster Wallace’s “This is Water”, there are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says “Morning, boys. How’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one […]
One Night Guru
One night a Guru was desperately searching for something on the street outside his small hut. When his pupil returned from his errand, he saw this and curiously asked the Master, “Aacharya, what are you looking for here on the street at this hour?” The Guru replied, “I lost my needle, I am looking for […]