Akshara
I am akshara -The written letter - and i believe that the pen is mightier
Dear friend
This is my post au courante.
All the others were written long back 2006 through 2008. The last one was probably written in January 2008.
I have just got back my blog frozen in time, a gift from my dear Anto.
Each blog through the process of some editing and rewriting has 2 date6s;its original date of creation and my second rewrite as of March 2014. I was joking to Anto that a decade down the line I would probably want to rewrite them again! But on second thoughts I won't. These are an integral part of who I was and am and deserve to be preserved that way.
Mainly what I have corrected is a certain e.e.cummings like tendency to avoid punctuation and the usage of small instead of capitalized I.Some did not need rewrites at all.Like Mother of Pearl.Digital Demon Doll.Dirty Aesthetic Pigs.
However in some I had to cull bits and pieces that were too self revealing, tone down the bitterness and accusatory tone.Lost the revolutionary bare-all dare-all edge with age I guess. Mellowed to a more forgiving understanding person hopefully.
These were started on roughly July - August 2006 and I wrote sporadically right upto January 2008.
Do I like what I wrote then ? Yes if I leave out some childish bits. I wasn't a mommy then but a spoiled pampered wife and a daughter.It makes a difference. Caring for lives other than your own makes a difference. Specially if they are helpless artless babies.
Being a parent so teaches you to curb the judgement on your own parents.Seeing them love your kids as grandparents makes everything else recede into the background except love happiness and a sense of continuity.
Oh yes! Sorrow makes a difference. And acceptance. These ingredients are not always to be found in my earlier impetuous blogs.But they are mine and I wish to resurrect and preserve a part of me that's in them.
This is my introduction to some early style rapid fire gun shot like candid writing.
Cheerio! If you like it settle down with a cuppa and read some.And raise it to me as a friend when you're done.
;)
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(c) Amrita Valan 2014
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