Shazar's meanderings
from a life of service to Mother EarthWelcome to my blog –
it meanders through many different topics as you will see… some pure fiction – many about my life and personal views – I hope you will gain some insights from whatever your read here and that these musings will be of value to you.
Crab Soup Dumplings
"Crab soup dumplings .. mmm" she said as she perused the strange menu. " Is that really what we are going to choose.. well why not. after all if you don’t try stuff how are you to know if you will like it." They were seated at the small laminated table - plastic...
My Love Affair with Bread…
Bread - that humble food - the food that can be the food of Gods - the food of the worker, and the farm hand and the politician. All the breads of the world - French breads crusty hot long filled with deliciousness - the camenbert, the brie - the gooey runny cheeses....
Water Privileges
If you are reading this it is more than likely that you will have woken up this morning and found as you usually do that the taps turn on and water flows to clean your teeth or take your shower. This morning I woke early as a friend arrived on the early train. All was...
Step Into The New Day
"The danger is going back to what works." he says. Its a coffee date - and I am sharing with an old friend. He is in the midst of turning his life on its head - moving from one way of working to the next phase in his life.. for him it is moving from one type of...
Creating a Tribe
It's time to create a tribe.. A tribe of Water Warriors. It wasn't that hard when I was working with the kids at the Shikshangram Shelter.. they created a tribe just in themselves and then whoever came to visit joined with the full open hearts. All it needed was to...
Metaphor – with Message
Out of Darkness comes the light... He was galloping like a bat out of hell. Who knows what demons were behind him but he couldnt stop. The momentum started and propelled him into the future faster than a speeding bullet. Suddenly from 2017 he landed in 2132. Oh my...
Minestrone Soup
Minestrone soup.. my version .. a la me… I was taught to make this soup in Italy by Dakshina, a dear friend and cooking mentor. We cooked for a bunch of friends in a community house called Gautama Buddha near Varese. There was a floating population between 20 and 50...
The Big Why
Simon Sinek in his inspiring TED talk says very few people and organisations know why they do what they do. Without understanding and clarity about this core question - all discussion about their product or cause is flat and colourless, lacking the pizzazz that turns...
What I learned from Indian Bureaucracy
You might think I learned to follow the rules, or that the Indian bureaucratic system was embroiled into a complete mess.. or possibly I could have learned that the best thing to do when entangled in these webs was to listen carefully and totally follow what is...
Kotumachagi and a storm that changes lives….
It's been a long day - lots of driving over rough roads - Sikandar's lawyer friend Nadaf came with us and sat and chatted in the front with Sikandar. That left me in the quiet of my own space, sitting in the back seat, taking occasional pics out the window and...