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Vishala

About Me

విశాల

My Interests

inner space. the absolute healing power of the mind. the eternal moment. silence. human intuition. the interconnectedness of life. infinity of possibility.the deepest of dreams.the big picture. family. culture. planes, trains, buses, ferries. travel. the wonders of exploration. friends. tiny sparkles. single flames. lots of red wine.

I'd like to meet:

the real question is "what" i'd like to meet.

Music:

music.

Movies:

Amelie Heavenly Creatures Like Water for Chocolate Three Colors Dolls The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring (amazing film) Red Beard Last Life in the Universe Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself just saw Little Miss Sunshine, that was cute. a bunch of other things i can't remember right now West Side Story The Pianist The Princess and the Warrior + other assorted films by Tom Tykwer ... Sybil, with Sally Field.

Television:

pbs stuff, history channel, food network. old episodes of Are You Being Served? are always appreciated. +VH1 Classic.

Books:

Salman Rushdie- FURY William Golding- Free Fall Marquez- Love in the Time of Cholera Marquez- One Hundred Years of Solitude Julia Alvarez- in the Time of the Butterflies Hesse- Demian Hesse- Strange News from a Distant Star Hesse- Narcisscus and Goldmund Wilde bawdy Balzac Memoirs of a Geisha Kureishi- Intimacy Thomas Hardy- Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy- Return of the Native Catherine Millet- The Sexual Life of Catherine M Gogol-Diary of a Madman & I wanna say Proust, but i've only gone through about half of Swann's Way in the span of half a year. he's mega, though. really really mega. Paramahamsa Yogananda- Autobiography of a Yogi Erik Erikson- Childhood and Society Thrity Umrigar- First Darling of the Morning: Selected Memories of an Indian Childhood Jhumpa Lahiri- The Namesake, which makes me want to go back to about 1972 and kiss my parents a million times on their foreheads as they first get off the plane in this country. How to Massage Your Cat, by Alice Brock. Jean-Dominique Bauby- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Heroes:

anyone with the courage and grace to let go of themselves

My Blog

tribe.

reading can be fun. Telugu alphabet Vowels and vowel diacritics Consonants Conjunct consonants Other symbols     attempt to channel my grandparents. remember those days, dear amma...
Posted by Vishala on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:06:00 PST

Donne (1572-1631)

The Ecstasy Where, like a pillow on a bed,      A pregnant bank well'd up, to rest The violet's reclining head,      Sat we two, one another's best. Our hands w...
Posted by Vishala on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 11:27:00 PST

word.

Word of the DayFriday December 1, 2006 debouch ..dih-BOWCH; -BOOSH.., intransitive verb: --> -->--> wotd="debouch" -->1. To march out (as from a wood, defile, or other narrow or confined spot) into th...
Posted by Vishala on Sat, 02 Dec 2006 05:14:00 PST

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Ich bin, du Ängstlicher. Hörst du mich nicht mit allen meinen Sinnen an dir branden? Meine Gefühle, welche Flügel fanden, umkreisen weiß dein Angesicht. Siehst du nicht meine Seele, wie sie dicht vor ...
Posted by Vishala on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 09:22:00 PST