Here's the ultimate Vishwa Video collection, which of course, a crazy aunt such as I must proudly display!!

 

 

In the Bassinet with the most peaceful relaxing music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bmjdEil3Eo&feature=related

 

One potatowallerchip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZED8jpQzNQ&feature=user

 

9 Emotions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2oGdwnbIHo&feature=related

 

Who's Getting a Bath?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CPK3A8cUbQ&feature=related

 

Who's got dirty hair?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5UI1F9Gt9k&feature=related

 

Mohawkified: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf4OmdTlLJ4&feature=related

 

Fussin': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A81-tZO5m5E

 

 

 

 

 

Anandini's little guy seems to be healing all of us. He's just so cute and simple and he smells so good. So the 3 things at the top of my list lately have been: Chotu, CISSP and Relo. Relo is crazy. I need all kinds of new references. New doctors, new trails, new avon lady, accupuncturists, cleaning service, new local liquor shop, new local dollar store (I am still ghetto), new shrink and dentist and Walgreen's... whew! But first, I need to transition all my SCREAM work, of course which I will miss (since it was my baby,) and get geared up for Engineering Excellence. This is exciting! Next week is the EE/TWC Forum, and I am planning to be all over it and to enjoy the ride. Its a good time for me. As Lori said the other day over beer - since the wisest words always emerge when mixed with beer - When you're 40, you've messed up so much, you now know confidently you can recover from anything! I agree. Plus, when you're 40, you get lots of spa gifts. :) Yay! More vichy showers, salt scrubs and deep tissue massage, please. And yoga. Don't underestimate the yoga. :) My brain loves when I am all folded over and pretzeled up. I love my 40's already.Ahhhhh.....

 I am having a hard time coming up with words for the years of memories that our grandmother shared with our family of girls. Jayalakshmi Doraiswamy, or Ammamma, aka Ammsy, was a strong, elegant, compassionate, loving, funny and forgiving woman. She was 5 when she lost her mother, and it made her a "mother of mothers," as Gopal put it in his tearful eulogy last week Sunday. Ammsy bore 8 children, only 4 survived, and she followed the eldest, her daughter Sudha to Canada, when Sudha was pregnant with her eldest (me).  When I was 5, Ammsy taught me how to do the difficult Overhead step in Classical Indian dance, and she continued to teach in the institution she founded from 1969 - 2008. Her last class was April 13th when she was helping me teach one of the students in the dance school. She loved to feed all of us. Whenever I stayed over with my mom, I'd wake up to her hot, spicy chai in the morning, for which she would always grate fresh ginger. Mom and I will miss her tea and we love all the nice ladies who have tried to replicate the tea for us in the kitchen, since Ammsy's demise.

 

I will never forget her. She saved my life once, when I was bleeding profusely, and she had a very sharp presence of mind to try to stop the bleeding, and instruct my brother Jim to call 911. I think she saved all of us, over and over again, with her committed prayers for all of her children, grandchildren, great-grandchild, all of the cousins and extended network of dance students and... the world. I would hear my grandma and my mom pray for world peace every day. I love that they care and they instilled this care in all of us.

 

My mom has never lived alone. At 67, she is so young and beautiful, dancing and singing, teaching young people. She is going to be independent now, and that can be a healthy thing. I just know that she has been the best daughter, teaching us to honor our elders, always including, worrying about and taking care of Ammsy. I know that Ammsy really loved my mom throughout her life. I worry about my mom, but I also know that she is stronger than I am. But all said and done, we miss her deeply.

 

We are fortunate to be the continuance of her DNA. I hope we learn to give, love and live as she did.

 

Love you, Ammsy!

 

Diya