Dandelions and Daffodils

Finally my writer's block has been blocked :)

Dandelions and daffodils
On your palates and window sills
While the former pumps up your iron, the latter blends bright-eyed ripples with smile spills

It is okay to spill smiles, they add to your lives meaningful miles

And add to your karma lively luster-laced files

It is okay to love thy neighbor and plant those daffodils dancing on your window sills
It is okay to squeeze smiles from strangers when their days have been soured tasting tests testing their sundry skills
It is okay to feel vibrant and smile when there is not a riveting reason to smile aside from all paid bills

It is okay to stop by and savor this sketch on daffodils and blithely bathe in those overflowing scintillating smiles and thrills

And to think of how dazzling a day will be with cumin-sautéed dandelions garnishing your palate
And a big bright albeit enticingly blank slate

To paint with dusky dandelions and dew-drenched daffodils, almost sun-bleached
And add to your slate dream-drizzled thrills unleashed

To paint with dreamy, wind-laden daffodils
To paint with inebriated, dancing daffodils
To paint with mystically magnificent, mellow daffodils

To paint with candidly conjured up dating daffodils
And to hang those out from your winsome window sills
To give passing strangers and thy neighbors those oft-swallowed smiles and those oft-tempered thrills

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Well with the ebbing of my Purdue student life, my homepage is gone - my computer engineer-half has been called into action - let's see when he can get things rolling ...

Doctor mamma - being me and trying to rid my writer's block ... pardon me my dear guinea pigs!

They say a baby changes your life - well! I can see that now ... for a woman it is very challenging to be the perfect mamma and to sprint ahead in one's career track. The best way to do it is I guess have your work life and mamma life riddled with imperfections. At times, you feel 24 hours is just not enough ...

Today I was walking in the woods and I heard and then looked up and saw a woodpecker pecking - it made me pause and smile and wonder if my son would get the time to stop and admire the natural splendors around him ... well, if genes play a role, he should grow up to be a nature lover - I hope it is a dominant gene though or else chances are he won't grow up to be one - you know why ;)

This year that I spent at home with my baby after PhD-ing for 4 years gave me a second PhD (honorary) in baby rearing and nutrition ... I tried exotic stuff starting from forbidden black rice to amaranth to lancinato kale and trumpet royale - go figure what that is - in addition to traveling to a new state in my native India - Rajasthan - the adventures in Rajasthan call for a new anecdote though, so don't get me started ...

I am very choosy when it comes to who I work for, or rather, work with - well, in a small town like West Lafayette that does not pay off very well. Also, since I wanted to give my little Shayok wholesome attention in his starting years, especially because we have family about 9000 miles away, I did put my undivided mothering stint on my CV and, well, if a company finds that to be working against me, I am better off not being hired. I think I am now ready to move on in life judging from how independent my little champ is growing up to be, he wants his mamma to "grow up" and gain speed ...

I am an optimist and a perfectionist and I now feel I am ready for a new beginning, a new beginning where I jump start my wagon and oil my engines and let the journey begin all over again - the journey to embrace my dreams jolted by cayenne and cumin and whatever else flows in my adrenaline-laden vessels ... Bon Voyage!