View fullsize April 2022 - April 2023: "And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" -Matthew 27:46 (Psalm 22, Verse 1) -- In the pics shown here
View fullsize August 2022 - January 2023: "Qui se ressemble s’assemble." -French Proverb (Loosely translates to: "Those who resemble each other, will find each other.") -- Over the past few months, during my time back in India after a s
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View fullsize November 4, 2022: "You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow." -Henning Mankell -- I decided to cook myself dinner tonight for the first time in what will serve as my new home for the n
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View fullsize October 20, 2022: "O mankind, fear your Lord, who created you from one soul and created from it its mate and dispersed from both of them many men and women. And fear Allah, through whom you ask one another, and the wombs. Indeed Allah is ever, o
View fullsize October 27, 2022: "And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter." -Thomas Jefferson, in a letter t
View fullsize April 11, 2022: "In this setting, Lord Hari incarnated within this world in His form as Kalki on the twelfth day during the fortnight of the waxing moon in the month of Vaiśākha. Upon seeing the beautiful baby, the hearts of Viṣṇuyaśa and Suma
View fullsize February 17, 2022: "Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." -Abraham Lincoln -- This President's Day, I thought of this fantastic quote from one of my favorite presidents about the art of
View fullsize December 25, 2021: "The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough." -Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life
View fullsize December 8, 2021: "Death is certain for anyone born, And birth is certain for the dead; Since the cycle is inevitable, You have no cause to grieve." -The Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 2, Verse 27 Trans. Barbara Stoler Miller -- My Nani (mom's mo
View fullsize September 25, 2021: “We teachers are rather good at magic, you know.” -Prof Minerva McGonagall, in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, by J.K. Rowling — Here's a not so mini life update from me! I am proud to announce that I h
View fullsize July 21, 2021: “Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere.” -Anton Ego in the @pixar film Ratatouille, written and directed by Brad Bird. The dish pictured is of course my version of Ratatouille ba
View fullsize June 27 - July 5, 2021: “An unexamined life, is not worth living.” -Socrates — I posted on this Instagram profile in October of 2020 with the note that that particular post would be the last post on this page for awhile. After som
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View fullsize October 9, 2020: “There is no great genius, without some touch of madness.” -Aristotle — This will most likely be my last Instagram post on this account for awhile. There’s a lot to unpack in this image as every shelf has de
View fullsize Fall 2003-Spring 2007: “It's not where you take things from — it's where you take them to.” -Jean-Luc Godard — When I was in high school I performed in every single school play that I could possibly audition for. In every ro
View fullsize August 22, 2014: “You know Purandaradasa searched for God all over the world. And then he didn’t even know it when God came and stood, right in front of him. I thought all that was possible in earlier ages. Treta. Dwaapara... God’s
View fullsize September 16, 2014: “Generally, change in our society is incremental, I think. Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.” -Ruth Bader Ginsburg — This picture was taken at a moment of profound change in my life, tho
View fullsize December 1994: “I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.” -Mohandas (Mahatma) Karamchand Gandhi — 19 years ago, I was outside Ridgeview Middle School durin