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#SS 31/100/2020
Disclaimer – identical photos, I believe, but the photographer claims otherwise, so humour me please, and amuse yourself by playing Spot the Differences. 🤓🤪
Rose early again.
Had a steaming hot mug of strong Nespresso coffee.
Then mustered up the courage to open my guest room door.
Stared at the guest room bed, stripped of sheets, with a landfill of clean laundry piled on top, Clothes folded in neat piles, to be ironed by respective owners.
Shut door firmly. Told myself if I couldn’t see it, it didn’t exist. Instructed daughter#2 to Vaccum the back end of the house. Daughter#1 was out at work else I would’ve assigned the clearing of the guest room to her.
Cooked lunch. Mango chutney, soy protein fry, lentils, kohlrabi/nokkol.
Draped a simple, unique silk gifted in ’92 by husband. He’d fallen for the soft green and multi coloured striped pallu. Borderless Saree. Still in great condition.
Left for music exams invigilation. The final stage requires students to perform a full fledged 1.5 hour kutcheri with Ragam Thanam Pallavi, Chowka kaala krithis, krithis, varnam, Thillana, over and above the theory and practical exams. Manodharmam is encouraged with students rendering raga alapanas, niraval, simple and complex kalpana swarams.
Extremely heartening to see the youngsters perform with confidence and having mastery over their instrument or voice. Delighted that the younger generation will carry the mantle of this beautiful art form and that too in a country so far removed from their motherland.
Got home, had extra classes for exam students.
A brief lie down on sofa, binge watched Netflix’s Good Girls, over a cup of tea, then had to leave for a birthday dinner.
SS RULES say One Saree Per Post.
So..
dinner Saree will feature in next post.
Bavani’s Happy Place 