Jai Jai Jai Shri Mataji

I have not written for a long time and as I was lying down on my bed, nursing my little one,  I was browsing through Facebook. It's hard to go through the news feed without news of animals abuse,  child abuse,  no human rights, racialism,  war,  corruption,  suicides,  accidents, rapes, and so on and so forth. As I caressed my little one's forehead and feel cool breeze emiting through her Sahasrara,  I feel worried for her. Since becoming a mother,  stories about children getting hurt really disturbed me.   And it's so scary that it is happening so much more frequent.   Maybe because of social media,  we get the news instantly compared to the times before Facebook was born.  So we get to hear news of parent left baby in car and suffocated and died, or the parent who accidentally sat on the toddler and killed him instantly or fell off from high place, or legs got stuck in elevator and so on. We used to only see this kind of things in horror movies.   But now we hear so m

I have always looked forward to Raksha Bandhan, every single year.  Maybe because the gifts are attractive. Every year, we have been making simple rakhis, in huge amount, to be distributed out to the collective.  This year, I learned to make rakhi the Indian way.  It's really simple to do but takes more time than the simple string that we have been making year after year. I used DMC embroidery threads that is from my abandoned cross stitch project.  Sorry, but I don't have the step-by-step method in pictures. Materials: Embroidery thread - normal colour Embroidery thread - silver or gold Fork Glue gun Beads / little flowers for decoration A partner to help you (optional but better) Method: 1. To make the centerpiece, first, take out 1 gold or silver embroidery thread and separate it from the main bundle.  The whole bundle consist of 6 threads.  Just take 1 out or the 6. 2. Take a fork and wrap the coloured embroidery thread (the full bundl

When we believe that everything happened for a reason, then we won't be disappointed. Since delivery, I feel as if there are way too many obstacles.  I am sure this is a test.  It has to be a test coz otherwise I cannot accept why it is happening like this. Everyday is a challenge.  Be it at home or at work.  Before the first issue subside, another issue arise.  It's been like that for the past few months. Having a baby does give us additional responsibility.  My duty to pump milk for her every few hours, everyday has been tiring but yet I felt very satisfying. It's the other things that are beyond my control that really irks me.  Things like people's behaviour, what others are saying, what others are doing to my baby and so on.  Every single day, without fail, all I can say is "I Surrender" but how much I am able to do it is another question. I am pretty sure the negativity out there is strong and keep pulling us down.  I remember reading S