May 2009
2 posts
“In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are...”
– Douglas Coupland (Shampoo Planet) (via thresca) (via quote-book)
I think I might be going through this “period of rapid personal change.” I seem to exhibit those very symptoms. Great. Cause and symptoms identified, cure?
On Hands
I am a lover of hands.
I used to admire my mother’s hands. My father’s hands, too. They were attached to his long, sinewy, brown arms, unfettered with the hair that most Indian men have, he was possibly the most un-hirsute Indian man I might have known, and it’s a trait I’ve inherited and thank God for that.
But this isn’t a story about hair, or the lack of it. In...