navigating the world, one moment of gratitude at a time
I’ve toyed with the idea of a blog for 11 years. Buried deep on the internets are my initial iterations, recanting my first ever encounter with boba/bubble tea, the trials of a younger brother addicted to runescape and the musings of being the only woman on the Boy Scouts Venture Crew division. In some ways,…
One of the biggest realizations this gratitude project has elicited is that I’m so grateful for my family. You’ve all probably noticed how ubiquitous they are both in my posts and in my reality and for some time, I was embarrassed of that. When I started college, it was as if my closeness to my…
I worry for my dad because he is a revolutionary. He wears his convictions on his sleeve and he lives by the credo “if you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything”. To that end, he has picked an unconventional path within an unconventional path. As a full-time Hare Krishna preacher, he has chosen…
My dad has optimism down to a science. Sometimes it blinds him from reality but those instances are few and far between. Plus you have 6.9 billion other people in the world to give you that reality check. You know the book How to Stop Worrying and Start Living? If Dale Carnegie were alive he…
Last night, I started to write about my father and the gratitude I feel toward everything he has done for me in this life. I was hoping for something concise and Instagram-friendly but instead, it got really emotional for me so I called him for a few minutes and sent him a follow up text…
Happy National Best Friend’s day to two of mine, mumsy and Krishna! There are a few more people not pictured (love you daddyo, Ash, Sitarani) some would argue that a best friend by definition is one person and others would disqualify family altogether. Today I’m grateful for being an anomaly on this randomly generated day…
Grateful for these three angels whose love and compassion blows me away. I don’t know what I did to deserve you but I hope I’m still doing it. family
