This spring appears to have naturally cleaned up a lot of my life clutter. And the space that opened up reflected back on the void I felt in my life, which was naturally and easily filled by the presence of a special being that entered my life on February 2nd. Little Chilman "Chilly" Chandra Sekhar Iyer is my new baby cat. He was already 2.5 years old or so, has quite the personality and a good appetite to boot. I have had to unlearn being a doggy mom and learn to be a kitty mom. Its been a lot of fun so far, and last Saturday, when I opened my eyes to find him curled up and sleeping on my legs, I felt the kind of warmth I had really missed for ages.

 

Besides that, changes in the workplace (as always - every February on the dot) signaled opportunity and ideas are now baking onto the pages of a roadmap that will hopefully find consensus across the key stakeholders required to make this initiative successful.

 

Travel has begun again - I've been back down to Cali to visit SVC, (I miss everyone!) and Kat Collins (woo hoo!) and Barb (XOXO) and Geetha with Hubby and Baby (Akash told me I am too old to be his girlfriend); then I went to Vegas for a break and the photo shoots for this year's dance graduates took me back for the 1st 3 sessions to Detroit. Baby Vishwa's birthday was squished in too, and he was a trooper with his goopey nose, happy smile and smooshy cake. 

 

I read this nice novel by Kathleen Tessaro, called Elegance, which is a fiction work based on a real book written in the 40's (or so) about how to be elegant. It was a charming twisted look at the life of a girl who tries everything to figure out how to makeover her life. And it inspired me to pull all my clothes out of my closet and onto the floor of my spare bedroom - for sorting and evaluation, of course. I am sure in the next few weeks, my closet will be more chic, my shoes will be all racked in color order and I will be elegant -- yeah ok, whatever that means. Somehow, I agree with millions of Indian women who know the easy route to elegance is to casualy drape on a silk sari, press a delicate bindi on the forehead and some fragrance and decorative bangles on the wrists. Much easier... but then where does one go when elegant?

 

:)