An eventful week

This was quite an eventful week. I am inspired by so many things that I see and experience around me. New moments ride upon the day and my hopes and dreams are displayed clear inside my soul. When I scan my mind, I see so many thoughts rushing in and this thinking inspires me to reach my goals.

At work, we were busy preparing for the big launch party of the book ‘Ending Slavery’. With this book, Free the Slaves President Kevin Bales has put forward a revolutionary proposal / plan to bring slavery and human trafficking to an end. The book shares a doable strategy, forces us to look at modern slavery from another direction and also drives the point that no country or industry would collapse if slavery ended tomorrow. The book also talks about the role that Governments, UN and other international bodies, businesses, communities and each of us individually can play to end slavery.

I have been doing some suggested readings as well. Just started with ‘How to change the world’ by David Bornstein. Again, every word in this book inspires me…to be the change I would want to see in the world. With reading, I have realized, we become part of the everlasting thing called imagination. This is sparked by reading that always fulfils. When I am angry, I am irritated…music and reading helps. When I am doing that, I have no rage. I feel nothing but what emotions I am reviewing and what the characters in the book are feeling. Plus, it’s a good way of keeping yourself busy during leisure hours.

This was a quiet and much needed weekend for me. On Saturday, Gargi, the other fellow invited her friend Nadia for lunch. We made some yummy ‘dal parathas’ and I think Nadia loved it too. We went to the Rock Creek National Park (though we didn’t explore it much). We did some biking, clicked pictures and it was so much fun. Sunday, I met up with Gargi’s family friends living in Maryland, who had invited us over for lunch. Tasted the authentic Bengali cuisine after long and relished it completely. In the evening, Kimi and Mike came over to the group house with some food and we all engaged in some brainstorming on a couple of issues. Thinking minds all around the table - agreeing, disagreeing, pointing, refuting, arguing…hahhhaaa…it was fun! Well, it was a fun Sunday except for the fact that I survived the day on painkillers. Had terrible stomach ache all day long and it is continuing…Sorry Scott, couldn’t manage to join you for your lecture at Muhlenberg University, Pennsylvania.

Just learnt something I was not aware of. My brother sent me an interesting and emotional forward about family and near and dear ones. At the end of it is written… ‘Do you know what the word FAMILY means?’ It means FATHER AND MOTHER I LOVE YOU! I am soooo… missing you mumma and papa. I’ll call you tonight!

(By the way, i am trying to upload some event pics to this blog and it's not happening! Grrrr...i am irritated!)