My last post was about getting rid of one's ego. This is something I have been trying to do as part of my personal growth. When I read about Mahatma Gandhi's attempt to do that and some little bit of Buddhist philosophy, it has been a goal of mine. I feel that when one's ego is no longer important, one is truly able to see the Godliness in all human beings and in all creation.

Why do I need to feel appreciated?
Why do I feel the need to be valued?
Why do I feel the need to be validated?
Why do I feel the need to be thought of highly?
It is my ego, my ego that doesn't let go.


May I learn the lesson of egolessness in this life.

Another Tag

Hiphop Grandmom tagged me.

I had already seen this tag a while back on somebody else’s blog, before I was tagged with it and thought it looked interesting.

Here are some of my favourite literary characters…

Jo or Josephine from Louisa M Alcott’s ‘Little Women’ series, particularly in 'Little Men'. She is my all time favourite I think, I identified so much with her and so wanted to be like her too.

Anne from the ‘Anne of Green Gable’ series by L.M. Montgomery,

Jane from Jane Eyre,

Pollyanna, though she’s got bad press in the US now—too goody-goody,

Heidi—how I loved Heidi;

The witches from the Discworld series

Just too many characters from the Harry Potter series,

Frodo and Gandalf—Tolkien

Jane Austen’s sensible heroines (I’m an absolute sucker for sensible heroines)

Gerald Durrell—he’s not a fictional hero of course, but was a person I truly admired and along with him I add James Herriot.

As you can see, most of my favourite characters are women! I always loved strong women, who didn’t let circumstances get them down and whose characters grew and expanded through their experiences.
I forgot to add Kunti Devi from Mahabharatha.
This tag I want Beks to do as also Geeta A J.

More pictures

These are pictures of chillies that grow in the backyard. They are very small-less than an inch long-but very hot. They are called 'kandari' in Malayalam. These chillies are the ones that grow easiest.
Incidentally, we rarely use the ripe ones.

Ok, at last, as my very own computer is back in action, here are some pictures that I took....

This guy came into school, when we were going to start singing! He was a beautiful green and as we watched his tail started turning colour. But we had to chase him out before he completely turned colour.

This beautiful spider is just outside our mosquito netting and I don't have the heart to kill it, because it's so beautiful--a brilliant yellow, with black stripes--and makes a really intricate web. It's position just outside the netting is a terrific hunting ground--all those insects and mosquitoes trying to fly in!

Summer was beautiful and fun-filled for me. Some pictures here.....

It's strange, posts I expected views on like the one about Mr. Beattie and the more recent post, where I expected some views, got no comments but the tag about some aspects of me, got so many comments. I truly found that strange.
On another note, I had got some pictures on my phone particularly of a lovely green chameleon; but I am unable to post because my regular computer is not working and to upload pictures on another computer means I have to go through the hassle of installing my phone and so on on another computer. Will post that picture as soon as I can.