What Goes Around

Today Bimla (my house help lady) told me that radishes are cheap these days. In fact, she bought 3 kilos for just 10 rupees (25 cents). She was planning to make her family some fried bread with radishes for dinner. But when she came home from working yesterday she found that her kids had eaten all the radishes raw. Now her youngest is throwing up radishes.

My parents came to visit this past week, over Christmas. It was a wonderful time together. I am so glad they came to visit. I also love seeing India through a new person's eyes. Jama Masjid, the biggest mosque in India, was one of our first stops. We all squished into an auto rickshaw and road to Old Delhi. Crowded, but a beautiful day. Second trip was to Humayan's Tomb which is close to our house. I decided it would be a good experience for my dad to take a cycle rickshaw there. Thinking that for my mom it might not be good for her back, all the bumps. So I told the cycle driver where to take my dad and Micah. Then he went the opposite direction. So my mom and I drove to the tomb and waited and waited. Finally, we saw them walking towards us. It turns out, the cycle driver took them somewhere else and Micah told him it was wrong. So he took them back to the beginning place and they walked. At least my dad got to experience a cycle rickshaw. The day after Christma...

I remember something else, besides earthquakes and tsunamis, that I am afraid of. I have a fear of attacks at church and hotels. Of course that fear would be because of the attacks in Pakistan at a church and the attacks last year at the Taj Hotel in Bombay. A few months ago while our pastor was preaching, there was loud commotion outside a door at the front of the gym (that is where we have church). In my mind I was figuring out the best action plan for the attack. I would fall to the ground and cover myself with the plastic chair. I realized that would give me absolutely no protection from bullets, but maybe they wouldn't notice me and wouldn't shoot me. It turned out to be nothing so I didn't have to go to the floor. A couple weeks ago we had a visitor at our church that was at the church in Pakistan when it was attacked. He is now deaf in one ear because he was too close to a grenade that exploded. That brings my fear back into the forefront of my mind. So the o...

We just got back from a wedding in a village. It was a very interesting trip. An all night train ride that we got very little sleep on. It was loud. One gentlemen decided to get a newspaper around 4am and I guess he wanted to be a news broadcaster, so he read it out loud so we could all hear the news. Others played their radios or talked loudly. So we didn't sleep very well. We arrived and went to the wedding. That night we got to sleep in a hotel. That was nicer, but also loud. The housekeeper washed dishes outside our room and talked with other workers during the night. Then the call to prayer at 5am was the loudest I had heard. And the guy who sang it must have just woken up. He was still clearing his throat as he sang. Well the last night was also spent on the train. We waited at the platform until over the load speaker we were told to go to another platform. So our group rushed with all the other people, up the stairs, over the tracks, down the stairs, with all o...

So what happens when your husband changes the password to your gmail account and doesn't tell you? The answer is, you can't blog. So all the many important thoughts I have had for the last couple of days have had to escape my memory and forever be lost. SWEATER VESTS are my favorite! Here are two of my recent finds.