Day

No matter rain or sun they are at "work".
The courtyard of Lady of Ransom awashed in rains.

This year too, the "No Trolling" days are over. Big boats are back into the sea, what is alarming is the lack of interest among the young for fishing job. Lady of Ransom is traditionally a sea-faring folks worship center. Hope the authorities will do something to make this trade attractive once again. Infact the earning potential is much more in this type of trade. Now they are bringing fisher folks from a place called "Kulachal" at Kanyakumari (Tamil Nadu) to fish and operate fishing boats.

Monsoon at lady of ransom

For them, it was business as usual. Selling candles, flowers and lime Juice. But during monsoon business is dull and life a drag.
"Karkidakam" the heaviest of our monsoon months was really wet this year too. The first month of the monsoon was a welcome change from the heat of summer, but a month into the monsoon our body has become supple and tender. Very easy to break a bone or sprain an ankle.
At lady of Ransom, they have this new Hall, with facilities for Adoration, Confession and Slave Offerings. Its spacious and really convenient.

The tooth.

I was twelve when one of my teeth decayed and went dormant. For 20 odd years it did not give me any problems. But two years ago, when I had to live in very cold situation, it started giving me problems. Warm weather, cold weather the pain switched on and off. Today, the dentist extracted that for me. A nostalgic good bye.

Journey

The road is long and lonely....Oh! my spirit, please do not leave me alone.

Vanaka Maasam

The end of May. The month of special reverence of our "Mother". We call this "Vanaka Maasam". Vanakam means revering, maasam is month. Earlier, when life in our place was "still" we celebrated the closing of the revering month with crackers and special feast. But not any more. Only few crackers were heard this month end. We ourselves did not celebrate it.

Times Change.

A scholarly gentleman whom I met today surprised me with an out of the box definition for professionalism. "Its the ability to put the right amount of skill and talent to deal with a situation in the best possible way".

If thats true, are we professionals in dealing with our own life?

:)

Pentecost

Most of the the time we have to stand alone in our life not on podiums or between waring fractions (those are for the ones who are born to lead or for the ones who want to be a "star"), but in our simple day today life. In the way we think, in the way we do ordinary things. The Gift of the spirit is perhaps the greatest of gifts one can have when one choose to walk The Way.

Last Sunday was the Pentecost. At lady of Ransom, the church being dedicated to the Holy Ghost, the feast was special. I stood "out" in the courtyard under the big tree near the school all through the service. Feast days are very crowded at the lady of Ransom.

The man

Psalm 30:
"1(29) I will praise you because you have freed me. Nothing is definitive in this life. The Lord alternates joys and sorrows according to what we need for the development of our faith. We are, at times, surprised: the trials discourage us as if God no longer existed, and when God gives favors, we dare not believe them to be true".