Traveling is a necessity to living fully, to expanding your horizons and partaking in life, if ever so briefly, beyond your immediate surroundings and perhaps beyond your own country and continent. Traveling away from home and to new places can change your thoughts, sharpen your senses, introduce you to wonderful people and places, and create a remarkable experience in the process. It is imperative that you travel. And once in a while, staying in the lap of luxury in your far away destinations will make all the difference. Read the rest of this article
Tagged as:
four seasons,
hawaii,
luxury,
resort,
travel
Aside from a handful of reading assignments in high school and a few beloved thick classics which slipped through, I turned my back to literature and the classics for the sake of science, engineering, and a career in technology.
“How on earth would English Literature or any other classic help me toward excelling in grad school or getting the next promotion?”, I thought, tossing aside even the remote possibility of engaging in such an activity. Quite rightly, it probably would not have helped me. Jane Austen or Emily Brontë would have never been instrumental in writing my thesis on “Effects of pulse shape on performance of Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum Multiple Access communication systems“! Or in getting that next promotion, for that matter. Read the rest of this article
Tagged as:
classic,
history,
literary,
literature,
thinkers,
tribute
It is only now, after nearly 8 years of on and off the mat practicing, growing, regressing, obsessing, trying, giving up, and returning again and again to yoga, that I am making a small breakthrough, one for which I dearly wish a permanent stay. The irony of the breakthrough itself is humbling. It is imperceptible in my outer form and vibrating with excitement in my inner core. Read the rest of this article
Tagged as:
home practice,
photography,
stillness,
strength,
vinyasa,
yoga,
yoga challenge
