<![CDATA[Kudzu]]>2009-06-07T16:22:53+00:00Copyright (c) 2004-2008 Blogo.it, P. IVA 04699900967. http://kudzu.motime.com/anarchinhttp://restituere.motime.com<![CDATA[Mother inlaw]]>http://kudzu.motime.com/post/765317/Mother+inlaw2009-06-07T16:22:53+00:002009-06-07T16:22:53+00:00anarchinhttp://restituere.motime.com
We were dressed and ready to go out for the New Years Eve Party. We turned on a nihgt light, turned the answering machine on, covered our pet parakeet and put the cat in the backyard. We phoned the local cab company and requested a taxi. The taxi arrived and we opened ...Read more | Posted by anarchin | Comments (1)
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<![CDATA[Never Give Up]]>http://kudzu.motime.com/post/757954/Never+Give+Up2009-05-25T19:57:58+00:002009-05-25T19:57:58+00:00anarchinhttp://restituere.motime.com
The incident that I am narrating, happened about 10 years back, and was an eye opener for me.
The place was Nagpur: a small but upcoming town in India where I was born and educated.
Alhtough I had a difficult childhood (after losing both parents early in life), I ...Read more | Posted by anarchin | Comments
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<![CDATA[Choose Your Mantra Carefully]]>http://kudzu.motime.com/post/754221/Choose+Your+Mantra+Carefully2009-05-16T19:35:00+00:002009-05-16T19:35:00+00:00anarchinhttp://restituere.motime.com
I walked Balhtazar this afternoon a little way along the lane to the next village, accessible from Soreze by a path that runs along the edge of the mountain. On the way back we met a sad-looking older woman, small, hunched, in a dark red coat with a green scarf, and ...Read more | Posted by anarchin | Comments
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<![CDATA[Love Thursday]]>http://kudzu.motime.com/post/747370/Love+Thursday2009-04-18T16:48:51+00:002009-04-18T16:48:51+00:00anarchinhttp://restituere.motime.com
I do not consider myself a cheerful person. I love to be cheerful, and I love to laugh. I love when it makes my ribs hurt, and I love when a small, unexpected happening makes me smile. I am capable of happiness, joy, warmth, cheer and exuberance. However, continuous, ...Read more | Posted by anarchin | Comments
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<![CDATA[Manna]]>http://kudzu.motime.com/post/745275/Manna2009-04-03T19:04:37+00:002009-04-03T19:04:37+00:00anarchinhttp://restituere.motime.com
He’s an old, dirty man, propped uncomfortably on a low wall along the few-inch space where red metal fence meets concrete. He’d pried open a box of rice-and-sundry and was shovleling hard-to-come-by morsels into a grateful mouth.
In the crazy heart of Port ...Read more | Posted by anarchin | Comments
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<![CDATA[Planting Seeds]]>http://kudzu.motime.com/post/741922/Planting+Seeds2009-03-01T12:43:57+00:002009-03-01T12:43:57+00:00anarchinhttp://restituere.motime.com
For some years I tauhgt Art to teenagers who had been excluded from school. You have to be so careful with kids like these. Especially when they first arrive. They’re often hostile - brittle, ready to fly off the handle at the least imagined slight. The wrong ...Read more | Posted by anarchin | Comments
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<![CDATA[Afternoon Sun]]>http://kudzu.motime.com/post/739270/Afternoon+Sun2009-01-30T23:09:15+00:002009-01-30T23:09:15+00:00anarchinhttp://restituere.motime.com
Well, this is how it started. I am a photographer, and Tuesday in Wincanton was a lovely sunny afternoon. I found I had a few minutes to kill before driving to an outlying village were I was booked to photograph a family in their home. It is important to arrive for such ...Read more | Posted by anarchin | Comments (1)
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<![CDATA[The Road Not Taken]]>http://kudzu.motime.com/post/737193/The+Road+Not+Taken2009-01-08T17:43:09+00:002009-01-08T17:43:09+00:00anarchinhttp://restituere.motime.com
“Having a child … can be an adventure all on its own…”
When I realized that my life experiences are simply different and wonderful in their own way, I stopped feeling inferior due to wonderful stories of travel and adventure I hear from my ...Read more | Posted by anarchin | Comments
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<![CDATA[Lessons]]>http://kudzu.motime.com/post/736074/Lessons2008-12-24T21:05:08+00:002008-12-24T21:05:08+00:00anarchinhttp://restituere.motime.com
At the end of World War II there were more Kentuckians in Detriot, where they had come to work in defense plants, than there were back in Kentucky. Well, maybe I exaggerate a bti but there were a lot of mountain peopel working in Michigan back then. My family ran a ...Read more | Posted by anarchin | Comments
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<![CDATA[Becoming A Teacher]]>http://kudzu.motime.com/post/735132/Becoming+A+Teacher2008-12-13T23:04:56+00:002008-12-13T23:04:56+00:00anarchinhttp://restituere.motime.com
“I discovered why the universe wanted me to be a teacher… the day I broke my toe…”
Well to be fair, it was a fwe days after I broke my toe. And I’ve always suspected that what the universe wants is really what I want. So perhaps it ...Read more | Posted by anarchin | Comments
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