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The diyas know their purpose without instruction—
place them at the threshold and they light,
their small, specific, oil-fed determination
holding back the generous October night.
Diwali is not just light against the darkness—
it is the choosing of the...
Holi is the color thrown without permission—
the blue that finds the white, the red that claims the air,
the permission to be joyful past the usual—
to love out loud, to laugh beyond the care.
The color says: today...
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Love is not a long word—
it is the shortest sentence,
one breath,
and the rest is evidence.
The moon knows my name—
I have called it often enough.
It does not answer,
but it stays.
The tree does not fight the wind—
it bends with the full body,
and when the wind has passed,
it stands again.
The rain fell
and I remembered you—
not a complicated remembering,
just: you. The rain. The window.
The sunrise asks for nothing.
It simply rises
and gives its gold
to whoever is standing there.
The heart speaks quietly—
not to compete with the noise,
but to the one
who has learned to be still.
You planted a seed in the third grade
that I did not know was a seed—
a question, a comment, a pointing to the window
to show me where the answer might proceed.
I carried it without knowing for years...
Your hands were always chalk-stained at the fingertips—
the occupational mark of the opened world,
of the knowledge given without measure or accounting,
of the word written on the board and unfurled.
Those chalk-stained hands opened more doors
than a...
You explained it a hundred times and did not sigh—
or if you sighed, you kept the sigh internal—
you found the hundred-and-first way to say the thing
with patience that felt almost supernatural.
That patience was the lesson behind...
There was a version of me that I didn't believe in—
the capable one, the one who could be more—
and you believed in it before I did,
held the door open while I found the door.
You didn't accept...
My favorite teacher had a specific quality—
she treated us as people, not as age,
she asked our opinions as if they mattered
and listened to the answer from the page.
She taught the subject but she taught it through...
The chain of teaching runs through the centuries—
from the one who learned to the one who goes to teach,
each link formed in a classroom or a moment,
each link extending what the chain can reach.
My teacher was...
Diwali is the night we reclaim the dark—
with diyas on every sill and step,
with the particular smell of oil and wick
and the old prayers collectively kept.
The children run with sparklers in the night,
making fire-signatures against...
Holi: the festival that forgets itself—
that forgets the formality and rank,
that throws its color at the usually untouchable
and laughs at the protocol it sank.
For one day the elder is the target
of the nephew's entirely aimed...
The moon is sighted and the news travels fast—
house to house, street to street, phone to phone—
Eid has arrived, the fast is over,
and no one should be celebrating alone.
The sewaiyan in the morning,
the new clothes...
Christmas morning is its own kind of quiet—
the early dark, the tree, the anticipation,
the children up before the parents would prefer
in the particular, irreplaceable elation.
The gifts are not the thing—or not primarily—
the thing is the...
Nine nights of dancing in the deity's circle—
the garba that spins the devotion into art,
the ghaghra chania whirling in the lamplight,
the music that moves the feet before the heart.
Navratri is not only celebration—
it is the...
The fields went gold before Baisakhi arrived—
the wheat announcing what the date confirmed—
and the farmer who had waited through the winter
received the harvest that the patience earned.
Bhangra in the courtyard, dhol in the morning—
the whole...
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