Suparna’s Birthday gift for me
She sent it very much on time … i wanted to format it and add pics so it got delayed …
Thanks a lot Suparna…

The hermit traveled across US of A
To Yellowstone, Zion and Bryce
He finally arrived in New York, New York
(So good, they named it [...]

… Continued from Introducing Supriya Iyer
Today was D-day. She would have to appear for the personal interview. What chance did she have?! She would certainly fail on looks, voice, laugh and familiar. Cmon Priya, its time we went to that place, shouted her father. Don’t forget to get Frankie, yelled ma. They had been most [...]

I want to be Ugly,
Not lovely…
I want to cackle,
Not sparkle.
I need some warts,
And some tangled knots.
I need a bat or a spider,
For a familiar.
Why, I will even settle for a tiger!
I am so sad…
I don’t feel good when I am bad.

In fact just the other day,
I helped an old man find his way.
I fed a [...]

I had a go at writing fiction… this is my first ever short story… I had great fun writing it
I am a total disaster, she sobbed. I have flawless skin. I don’t have any warts or pimples. Not even acne. I have long beautiful dark brown hair and deep dark brown eyes. When [...]

Ze Hermit really wanted to go to Italy…
so Suparna wrote this out for me
The Mysterious Case of the Fainting Prima Donna
‘Twas a starlit night in Tuscany
Florence was a spectacular sight
The Opera del Marzipan opened its doors
For the season’s opening night
Signora Rosetta Garbocci
The Prima Donna of the show
Having warmed up in the green room
Was [...]

There are many things about Guruji on our blog and elsewhere on the net… but not enough (according to us) about our darling Bhanu Didi… Guruji’s lil sisiter!
I remember one of my earliest memories about Bhanu Ma as our family calls her, is mixing hot rice and yummy rasam and home made ghee with her [...]

… Then Guruji appeared …
There He was, just twenty precious feet away, sitting there …. “Hhmmm…. soooo… tell me… how are you… what shall we discuss??”

Two hundred blank minds and faces just stared back at Him – this was the teaching body of South East Asia and we could hardly manage a Jai Guru Dev [...]

A Christmas Day treat for everyone… from the crazy mind of our darling Ivan:
Merry Christmas everybody…
Jai Gurudeva!
love
bawa

I don’t know – the things we do for our Guru!  Sarah & I recently staggered back to Sydney after a gruelling couple of weeks on some island in the Indian Ocean, Bali I think its called.
It had been [...]