A Handful of Beauty Indeed..

Devotional Dub (Tabla Beat Science)

(Un)wordy Progress

About five years back, my mom sent me an email which said '...The comp has been going into beatific raptures of blue again...' among other things. I remember having to look up both 'beatific' and 'raptures'..basically I had to look up almost every 'big' word she used back then (the days of the GRE word list could provide but temporary relief from this phenomenon). I look up fewer words she uses now..yet the frequency is not low and certainly not 0..how will I ever catch up with that fiction-hungry monster? :)

Ансамбль "Берёзка" - 'Прялица' (I don't get it either)

Interesting! Mom taught me some Russian when I was eight...the title translates into Ensemble Beryozka(Birch tree, revered in Russia)- 'Prialitsa' (beloved)..the Pria prefix in Russian shares its roots with the Priya prefix in Sanskrit..amazing and amazing she can still read the language given she learned it at 16 and hasn't touched it since!