TITLE: Eden of. SMALL WONDER by Sipra Roy
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I picked up a slice from my childhood memories with images of small wonder.and ecstasy. I grew up in the loving care of joint family with many members in India.
We had neither TV nor even radio in those days. But we were happy with periodical fair, festivals, circus, sports, magic, annual picnic etc. Family itself was a mini-community with variety shows throughout the day .
Besides family and friends ,I enjoyed nature closely. The smell of first rain-soaked earth and the rare view of rainbow always charmed me.
I was obsessed with the Beauty of the sky ,with the dazzling sun, twinkling stars, and wax and wane of the silvery moon! when I was in grade 2, I learnt that the shape of our earth is like an orange and it rotates around the Sun ;I imagined that the earth 'rotates" like a ball; So I wondered then why like topsy turvy the sky didn't come on the ground under our feet? While traveling by train , it surprised me to notice that the moon also traveling with us ;and the outside trees lamp-posts and all other things were running to our opposite ; was it the same & single moon which I could see from everywhere?If it was so, then why my own house or neighborhood became invisible to me when I went far away ? There were such a plethora of wonders to puzzle me !
Anyway through a serpentine course of life now I reached to older adulthood in this land, far away from the land I was born. I met here some other like -minded women of my age with whom I was bonded together under the canopy of DOROT organization which served as an extended family , to share our stories : through the journey of life .Though physical vitality has declined, still, many of us are able and eager to embrace philanthropic activities and thereby making life meaningful by nurturing the art of creativity : it is same as our valley of spirituality.!
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