spring cleaning

clearing my table of the articles accumulated over the past decades, i come across a letter i had written a very old friend on december 13, 1982.

we used to write conventional postal letters those days between friends, a practice that had gone out of vogue with the coming of communication on the run possible over the internet.

my friend had kept with him some of my letters among many he had received from a small circle of very close friends. like i did today, he came across my letter while doing some spring cleaning at his home way back in 2006. just for the fun of it, he took a photostat copy and posted the same to me. it was among the miscellaneous articles in one of the drawers of my table at workplace.

my friendship with kunjumon started in 1977 during the time we were working together in a spinning mill near our home town alappuzha. in 1978 i left the spinning mill to join the newspaper from which i am retiring this wednesday. he left the spinning mill in 1982 to join the panchayat department in the state government.

my letter was about my happiness over his landing the panchayat job. he retired from that job a few years ago and is leading a quiet life outside kochi with his wife, who too is retired from government service. their only son is employed and is in bangalore.

the accumulated warmth of many decades exists between a small circle of us friends. we had been in constant touch with one another wherever life had taken us. i phoned him up today and said i had found during spring cleaning the same letter he had found during his spring cleaning eight years ago.

certain things keep popping up at every cleaning exercise we undertake in life because we never throw them away.

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Mooji on relationships, pain

take a look at this short discussion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ_FXjnz-0w

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retiring

i am shedding my identity as a journalist. i had two more years of service left, since our retirement age is 60. but i am becoming lighter and lighter...i am voluntarily retiring with effect from January 1, 2015.

elsewhere in this blog i had mentioned about a weightless condition where i know it will start happening. i have a feeling i am floating towards that condition, navigating towards it very delicately...

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Papaji

take a look at this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqOwPteS_Xg

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escalator

and then i was stuck in the middle of a lonely escalator moving down after everyone had left the building.

i kept running up, wanting to take back something i cannot remember i had left behind. i was remaining at the same place running as the escalator went on sliding down on silent belts.

it was extremely tiring in the beginning, having to exert so much to stay at the same place...

very soon the tiredness vanished and i found myself on light feet running up without panting. the steps of the escalator came folding down and went sliding down under my feet and i was alone and feeling so very happy running.

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Inner quest

this excellent site i chanced into today:
http://www.inner-quest.org/

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milestones

this heart attack happening the other day in its wake brings a kind of lull when the wind falls silent and one holds the breath and listens, looking back as on reaching the top of a hill turning the head to see the path traversed winding its way down far below.

the 16th of this month is a milestone in our life. it is our 35th wedding anniversary.

this is how we used to look like 35 years ago when we became man and wife, both of us barely 23 years old:

and now we look like this:

our grandson Aiden, whom we call kunhikuttan, or kunhoottan, is also seen in the picture.

all the very best to all of you!!!

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