They speak of names, like they are friends – those names I have only heard of; never read. I am told, the craft in front is not what it is supposed to be; they don’t tell me I can’t neither do they say I can. Classic or clown, who can tell.
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The transient moment when one conversation is over, and I wait for the next, searching for eyes that might accidentally meet mine, that transient moment surrounded by faces – smiling, welcoming, I understand what alone means for three seconds. I go off to find the next.
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“I don’t know how I could not come to send my CV,” said a dear friend, in a recent conversation we had. She shared how she had come across a job that caught her eye, but did not send her resume, and just like that the deadline passed. I had been lurking in the same…
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There are days when I listen to the words coming out of my mouth as closely as I can, after the words have left me, materializing into sounds. What do the words mean, where do they lead me? Sometimes guilt takes over, a little ounce of arrogance speaking; but time is so that it shall…
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If you’re a 90s kid that grew up in Kathmandu Valley, chances are we share a vivid memory of St. Valentine’s Day. ‘Ah, hai…hami sano huda valentines day ma snow pareko thiyo!’ (Yeah, when we were little, there was snow fall on valentine’s day!). Each year as February approaches, so does this little memory hidden…
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Have you met someone just like you, not by age, or by style, nor by choice, or by chance, but word by word. Word by word, to come to light, to discover the rough edges of the sentences and the pauses in between. Word by word, to realize how you’re just the same. Word by word…
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The Wordcastle 