Thursday, September 1, 2011

Hello! Is it me you're looking for?*

(.....or look who crawled out of the woodwork!!!)

:)



Flowers from an evening with friends...



Dearest readers,

Thank you for not giving up on me, and for all your lovely words and emails. I know I've been a bad bad blogger, disappearing on you like that. Thing is, I'm still trying to get my act together. Bear with me, please? I'm making no promises (and thus sidestepping all the guilt in one glib move! :) ) but I really really hope to be back to doing what I love! :) To those of you who wrote in to inquire after our well-being in Irene's wake, we are fine, we escaped with just a few extra raindrops, but my heart goes out to all who were affected by the flooding. I hope their nightmare will end soon.

For now, it's September already, there's a quiet chirping of crickets outside my window. The morning sun is streaming in the window, making the shadows of my fingers dance across this keyboard. :) Behind me, there are still unopened boxes and disorganized closets begging for attention! It was a lovely long summer for us, filled with old friends and new, reconnecting with the familiar. It was a busy summer. And a very emotional one as well, as we moved back to our old town, our home away from home. It was also a time to slow down and reassess the larger picture, to sort through those emotions and reinforce the ones that made us stronger and let go of the rest. There's a long post somewhere within me, waiting to break loose, but now is not the time for it. Right now the autumn sun is calling my name--fall is indisputably my favorite time of the year, as that light chill creeps into the air and the trees don their autumn finery, and my green mountains turn to gold and amber.......hopefully Irene hasn't robbed us of these simple pleasures. The bub is back at school and I'm slowly trying to fill my days with things I would love to do--for the longest time, I have wanted to be part of something larger than myself, and I aim to allocate some of my time to volunteering within the community this year. It looks like it's going to be a busy fall for us, just the way I'd want it to be. :)

So. Enough about me. How have you been? It's been a while...I'd love to catch up with you, find our what's new... talk to me? I'm here and I'm listening.......

Much love,
Gagan




*adapted with a liberal dose of poetic license from here.

21 comments:

  1. How lovely to hear from you! Take good care of yourself and blog often :)

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  2. Welcome welcome back! Its been quiet without you....not that I've been busy blogging either, but good to see you back. Change is a good thing....time to make new friends and do new things! Hope the new place brings lots of happiness to you and your family!

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  3. Yay!! Yay!! so nice to have you back.. Yay!! Awesome.. all the new stuff is good.. Change is what gets the best out of us... and keeps us going.. Stagnant waters stink!! *grins*.. Im good.. and you know.. I've been missing you!! so come back.. to a 'sometime' blogging atleast.. dont go away for so long.. :-) Loads of love.. *hugs*.. to keep your going.. thru those boxes.. :-)

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  4. Good to see a post from you. Moving is always a great way to reassess everything, isn't it.

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  5. thank God you are back Gagan. was missing you around here. happy to have you again amongst us. now give us some mind blowing posts. love

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  6. Hey Gagan. I visited your blog yesterday and wondered where you have disappeared. Good to see you back.

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  7. Sooo good to have you back Gagan, I have missed you:):)

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  8. Good to have you back Gagan :) Welcome :)

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  9. Sooooo glad that you're back! Welcome. I'm happy to know that you are all safe...hope you are able to find some time for yourself...at the end, change is a good thing.

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  10. yaaay ure back..missed ya...now get back 2 posting some amazing pics sooon :)

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  11. Yess!!! Yess!!! we were looking for you. So glad that you are back. Hope to see you more regularly now.

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  12. You might not believe this, but I was thinking about you just yesterday, wondering where you were and whether everything was okay. Glad you're back and we're all looking for lots of new stuff from P&P!

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  13. Glad you are back Gagan,...missed you and your awesome posts. Take care...ok again...happy you are back

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  14. Good to hear form you!!! Now stay around, K? :)

    ♡ from © tanvii.com

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  15. welcome back and keep popping in dear

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  16. How nice to hear from you. All the very best on your volunteer project. Nothing beats the satisfaction of giving a little something to the lesser privileged. Even though its more fulfilling to give my time than money, I have always struggled with giving away the former. I would like to hear on what worked for you.

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  17. Hello there Gagan! Don't worry at all about the blogging as all your true blogfriends will always be here! I hope you are doing well, my dear.

    Meera xx

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  18. Hi Gagan,
    Glad to know that you are slowly settling down. Enjoy your autumn, for soon before you realize it would be winter there.
    Have a great morning, love, Rama.

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  19. Hey Gagan this is a beautiful post you've come back with! Loved the poetic touch of it, am going back up to read again :P Blogosphere does miss you, so come back soon :) Hope your settling down is going smooth.

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  20. wow! Finally back!!!! So good to hear from you... was really scared that you would stop blogging! Glad that you are settled in your new home!

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  21. I'm reading up on your blog as you can see. The past 5 months have been so filled with work that blogging was I'm afraid relegated to the netherlands. But I'm slowly coming back. And this post in so many ways reflects how I feel. So much to share and yet, sometimes you cant because there just is SO much & you dont know where to begin and where to end.
    And I feel its just amazing that we do have this space to come back to after all the living.

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