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  • Rosewater, Cardamon and Pistachio Lassi

    It’s hot and I’m bothered.

    I want instant refreshment, instant karma (calmer).

    I need something to cool me down.

    But what?

    Let’s see: I have Greek yoghurt in the fridge and an unopened bottle of rosewater in the larder.

    Aha! A Rosewater Lassi.

    Quickly now. Make it. Drink it.

    Ahhh. That’s better.

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  • Mini Trifles, Robert Frost & New Beginnings

    Happy New Year!

    As 2012 dawns I’m feeling optimistic. Onwards and upwards will be my mantra this year.

    However, I am a realist: I understand that we don’t get the highs without the lows. Moreover, the highs and lows are more frequent if you’re someone like me who thrives on challenges and new adventures.

    So at the dawn of 2012, when opportunities and possibilities abound, I’m reminded of the poem, The Road Not Taken, by American poet Robert Frost:

    Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
    And sorry I could not travel both
    And be one traveler, long I stood
    And looked down one as far as I could
    To where it bent in the undergrowth;

    Then took the other, as just as fair,
    And having perhaps the better claim
    Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
    Though as for that the passing there
    Had worn them really about the same,

    And both that morning equally lay
    In leaves no step had trodden black.
    Oh, I marked the first for another day!
    Yet knowing how way leads on to way
    I doubted if I should ever come back.

    I shall be telling this with a sigh
    Somewhere ages and ages hence:
    Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
    I took the one less traveled by,
    And that has made all the difference.

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