who’d a thunk it – my writing with neices leads me back to mapping roots and routes …

“my nostalgia for the rural is so unexplained by my actual life experiences…or on second thoughts maybe not unexplainable at all… while some may locate my yearning/nostalgia in roots in kakaraparru – it may be that the smells of burning wood and mud huts is actually taking me back to rural Africa…? or the rural Thai and Indonesian habitats that were still tucked in the backyards of urbanity of Bangkok, Jakarta, Bandung and even in the touristiness of Bali back in the late 60s and 70s”

Thus far I have been fairly cautious about blogging (I know its a strange thing to say when I have like a million blogs and million pictures and videos and email exchanges all in googlable distance on the internet…) because privacy is a concern for me (laugh away… but where in my facebook, twitter or website do you see something really really pvt – okay – maybe occasionally there are slips – oh okay – there are LOTS of slips;-)).

But it is interesting how twittering and facebooking have become more a sort of mentoring/advising activity of late.

This last week blogging has taken off in a new direction for me when after overcoming my initial hesitation, I followed up on my neice P’s suggestion that we have a blog to continue conversations begun under the header of Atlanta reunion… I went ACK no googlable pvt family stuff please. But then I relented and “Radha ki Betiyaan” – i.e. me and all my neices (thanks to K for the suggestion of blog name) now are privately blogging …

As someone who researches online/offline intersections – I find this sudden personal turn in my blogging activity to be fairly educational as well…

we live and we learn, eh?