Secrets
Oh, the hectic inner lives of children! Who knows what they are saying, what they are thinking, what they are revealing and what they are still holding inside? I love to watch them, just to remind myself of how spacious and textured their landscapes really are, how deeply they care and how closely they observe. […]
Inclusion
Nobody ever said inclusion was easy. My nephews, Owen and Enzo, attended Karuna Vihar for the six weeks they were here in India. Most of the time, it was a good experience (though it was still school, as far as they were concerned. They preferred Latika Vihar, our afternoon children’s centre.) The activity-based learning approach […]
Ravi Chopra: My Main Man
Is he gorgeous or is he gorgeous?
Mom, one more time
Spare Every Expense, Except One: My Mother’s Obituary Jo McGowan When my mother, Patricia McGowan, died in late June, we chose the cheapest coffin for her burial. The funeral director brought the glossy album of possibilities for us to leaf through and without even glancing at it, I told him, “Mom would want the plainest, […]
Reading Poetry and Sharing Photos with Moy Moy
I just discovered this little album of photographs while cleaning out my closet. It’s full of pictures of Moy Moy, Cathleen and Anand when they were small – and Moy enjoys going through them with us, remembering the old days and laughing (sometimes) about how cute she and her sibs were.(Sometimes she just looks stern.) […]
Shelley Hubele, Writer in Residence
Shelley Hubele has been working with us as a consultant writer for the past three months. She is a friend of Cathleen’s from Boston College where she majored in Theology and Creative Writing. After graduating this past summer, she decided to take a year off before doing a Master’s degree, and that gave her the […]
Missing My Kids
I did it to my parents, and Ravi did it to his, so I suppose I cannot complain that ours have done it to us, but Lord, it does sometimes seem against nature how far away from home these two have roamed. It wouldn’t be so bad if they weren’t so much fun to have […]
The Owen-Enzo Fan Club, Dehradun Branch
These kids! I seriously have never seen children so full of life and high spirits as these two nephews of mine: Owen and Enzo. I come home for lunch every day and most often they are there waiting. My heart actually does a little leap when I see their shoes strewn carelessly outside the door […]
The Angle of Repose
I took this photo when I was in Florida in July and forgot to post it here. I took it because it looks to me like the very image of relaxation and calm that I am constantly dreaming of and never achieving. I even like the line which limits the view – that makes it […]
Review Meeting
It started with this guy. Bhagirath Gop and his colleague Dr Vikram Gupta, both Program Officers at the Sir Ratan Tata Trust, came to visit us in August to check out the work of the Foundation and, in particular, the functioning of the Early Intervention Centre. We think they liked what they saw, but they […]