Luminous Infinitus

"...bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens Brown paper packages tied up with strings, These are a few of my favorite things." - 'The Sound of Music' The first thing that I did was to watch the rest of 'The Sound of Music' The 'favourite things' song was still afresh in my mind. I'd watched it till Maria stealthily ran away to the abbey. D had said it was the best of movies ! must-watch-should-not-be-missed kind of movie. It is a musical about a wannabe nun being a governess in a Captains house (palace!) gaining the confidence of his 7 kids. It’s a classic. It’s a jolly ride, I’d say – jolly roller coaster musical flow in and out of good times. By the time I finished everyone was awake.. N, reading paper – "They’ve opened a new park near downtown. Let’s go." Me – "Yup..I anyway needed to go to the library." N – “ok. We’ll cook something, take it and eat it from there.” Me – “We’ll eat here and t...

Today’s story Jigs n reels – Joanne Harris The best thing about the stories in the book are the short notes just before the stories – words telling you the inspiration behind each story. The first story “Faith and Hope go shopping” is about 2 elderly ladies who escape from an old age home to fulfill their long-standing-utterly-wild-dreams , i.e to buy ‘Lolita’ and a pair of designer shoes. One’s bound to a wheelchair and the other is blind ! I’m in the 5th story in which a set of classmates from a magic school decide to meet after 25 years. The main protagonist arrives earlier than the rest. She sees her friends arrive one by one – everyone, the hated and the loved alike, she observed had been practicing magic – one had become famous amongst the gliterrati, another had a shop, another was consulting..and so on. She’s afraid because, she is the only one who’s been out of touch and has lost her magic. As she keeps hoping that none would question her about it, the worst thing happens – so...