Posts by Garry
I found a new pet cat during this Pandemic.
On a sunny morning of the last day of March, a white cat with blue eyes came to our house.With no apprehension, he went close to me like a friendly stranger. Believing that he may be owned by a neighbor nearby ,we were not surprised that he would just leave our house that day. Unexpectedly,in…
Read MoreBeing lost
My life as it is now, resembles, in many ways, a bygone dream. The more I try to arrest it in my mind, the more I try to tame and defang it, the more viciously it thrashes away from my grasp until it’s suddenly gone. Sometimes fragments of its ghost stain my hands, dissipating slowly…
Read MoreI lost my mother in the Lockdown.
She was frail and in Bhopal, 800 kms away and we thought it was enough to talk to her twice a day. Then one day she did not pick up the phone. When finally the police forced the door open, she had passed away–from a massive heart attack—slumped on the chair, her yellow mug, half…
Read MoreSolitude
The freedom to feel and express feelings that living alone offers because I’ve had to move in with the family to wait out the lockdown. I have also lost the pleasure of taking long walks alone and the ability to hold my own shape which solitude offers. Sharing living spaces with others has its own…
Read MoreMyself
I am a retired person and have more free time than the ones working…But the coronavirus helped me to find the inner me, with everything so silent and zero pollution, i started meditating for hours and started practicing yoga…I left aside my urge to sleep and found that morning drowsiness is a fatal luxury than…
Read MoreCelebrating major milestones
My husband and I have two seniors, one in high school and one in college. We were looking forward to celebrating their accomplishments in May, but the pandemic changed everyone’s life forever in March. We moved into a new house the week before our state health department issued a stay-at-home order. We met a few…
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