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Got Stress?

Got Stress?

Often, I had asked myself why peace of mind seemed so elusive. There were times when life just seemed not that easy. Sometimes it felt like…
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The Secret to Happiness

The Secret to Happiness

Waking up on the wrong side of the bed. It happens to the best of us.
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Spirit of Gratitude in Thanksgiving: Then and Now

Spirit of Gratitude in Thanksgiving: Then and Now

It’s been 365 days or more precisely 525,600 minutes since our last collective moment of pause and expression of gratitude observed…
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Adjusting the Light

Adjusting the Light

Wash and sanitize my hands, put my gown on, get close to the patient, verify the patient, do a timeout, adjust the light. Wash and sanitize…
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The Rangoli of Life

The Rangoli of Life

The wick of the diyas drenched in ghee, Cast a wondrous light, of hope and glee. The kitchen stirred with busied steps Lest the fear of any…
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Proximity in Distance

Proximity in Distance

March 11th, 2020:    It was a day that sparked the catalysis of change. As marked by the World Health Organization, the start of a global…
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Pause and Patience for Personal Growth

Pause and Patience for Personal Growth

In a book entitled The 3-Second Pause That Can Save a Morning and Spare Some Pain, Angel Chernoff describes an experience that we can all…
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Forgiveness: A Reflection in Diwali and My Pathway for the New Year

Forgiveness: A Reflection in Diwali and My Pathway for the New Year

It is almost Diwali — one of my favorite times of the year! As the Hindu calendar year comes to a close, a New Year of promise beckons…
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Positive Attitude for a Healthy Mind

Positive Attitude for a Healthy Mind

I once heard someone say, “a healthy mind is more important than a healthy body.” At first, I didn’t believe that. A healthy body is of…
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Slow is smooth, Smooth is fast

Slow is smooth, Smooth is fast

It is an irony of our modern times that while technology is continually invented to save us time, we use that time to do more and more…
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Have You Heard?

Have You Heard?

Joseph Conrad, a Polish-British writer, put it nicely, “Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.”
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Me Time

Me Time

Break from the grind to clear your mind
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Thaw and Blossom

Thaw and Blossom

More and more, we are speaking of the pandemic in the past tense. Humanity has come together and reanimated like a bear awakening from a…
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My Mandir My Home

My Mandir My Home

It is not lost on any of the world’s seven billion people that the past year and a half has likely been the most challenging period of…
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Values My Father Instilled Within Me

Values My Father Instilled Within Me

Growing up, I did not have an understanding of what sacrifice meant. After all, as a child, my life in India was idyllic. I attended the…
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Eternal Vaccine

Eternal Vaccine

On January 6, 2021, I got vaccinated against Covid-19. Humbled that I qualified so early on, I was eager to get this opportunity to protect…
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Taking My First Green Step

Taking My First Green Step

Recess was my favorite time of the day as a child- the warm air, the smell of fresh-cut grass, the dirt on my scraped knees that I didn’t…
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Self-Spring Cleaning

Self-Spring Cleaning

Every March or April, millions of households undertake a transformative ritual — Spring Cleaning. They go room to room and figure out what…
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From Impossible to I AM Possible

From Impossible to I AM Possible

My journey with my son’s Autism Spectrum Disorder
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I Value Me

I Value Me

While preparing a Pinterest-inspired poster board with her two children, Trista Sutter asked them what they wanted to be when they grew up…
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His Hands Are Bigger Than Ours

His Hands Are Bigger Than Ours

Most of us, at some time or another in our lives, have offered a prayer. For example, back in our school days, we must have prayed to pass…
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A Love Of

A Love Of

Perched high above all, Floor-to-ceiling- windows tall, A city glistens bright, This desire of a home, always has been my delight A love…
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Reimaging Resolutions

Reimaging Resolutions

The last week of the year is one of my favorite times. As the magic and busyness of the holiday season begin to wind down, the last week of…
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Breathtaking

Breathtaking

I looked over at my wife. Our eyes met, and we took a collective deep breath before I rang the doorbell. This was going to be hard.
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The Smell of Criticism

The Smell of Criticism

Why is criticism so hard to accept?
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Quiver of Arrows: A Lesson on Unity

Quiver of Arrows: A Lesson on Unity

Isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown has hit me hard. Being back at work as an educator, I feel the inner loss of connection…
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Why I Vote

Why I Vote

I care about voting. So much so that I advocate it for a living.
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Embracing Stress

Embracing Stress

“It’s not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.” — Hans Selye
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Accept, Embrace, and Move On

Accept, Embrace, and Move On

“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.”
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