Dictionaries Are Awesome
Dictionaries are awesome. Really, they are. Anytime someone gifts me with a thesaurus or book of word origins, I think to myself, you get me.
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Dictionaries are awesome. Really, they are. Anytime someone gifts me with a thesaurus or book of word origins, I think to myself, you get me.
On Sundays in high school when I wasn’t working I’d beg my mother or stepfather to drive me to the Metro station (20+ minutes away).
The Muslim, Hindu, and Christian students stood together and sang We Shall Overcome in Ramanattukara. I think about these kids often. I hope it’s true.
These lovely girls followed us as we strolled along Kozhikode Beach in Kerala. The beachgoers of Kozhikode, covered head to toe in 95 degree heat.
Travel can be a kind of monasticism on the move: On the road, we often live more simply, with no more possessions than we can carry,
How great stories are made: “[Here are] the keys to the kingdom … I have come to believe there’s a unified field theory of yearning.”
This is the creative process to a tee except that the crying starts right when the work begins and ends only after you meet the deadline,
It is fatal to know too much at the outset: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist
Taj Mahal in the light of day: Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal for his beloved wife, Mumtaz Mahal, who died in 1631 while giving
The first ghostly presence, the Taj Mahal in the pre-dawn fog. In an hour it will rise out of the fog, all crispness and clarity
Got a website? Then you surely have a spambot fan base. Not to throw down the gauntlet, but I bet mine is better than yours.
Ever listened to a voicemail or other recording and recoiled at the sound of the person speaking only to discover you’re hearing your own voice?
“A Coat” (1914) I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat; But the fools caught it,
If three stalks attract happiness, what do two stalks attract? How about just one? Because one of my three bamboo stalks up and died …
My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends— It gives a lovely light!
“[O]ur rule of thumb: The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more we can be sure we have to do it.”
The Devikulam hill station is in amid the Munnar tea plantations, 8km from Munnar in Kerala, India. The mothers asked me to photograph their children.
Vinod and Sussila toasted their Ramanattukara Anniversary (Kozhikode, Kerala, India) with treats from a local bakery. We were honored to be part of the celebration.
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