A New Triple Eclipse series on Hand
Partha Desikan
The world is about to witness a rare astronomical event - a series of triple eclipses, beginning July 2009. The first in the series of triple eclipses will be a lunar eclipse on July 7, 2009 followed by a solar eclipse on July 22, 2009, and another lunar eclipse on August 6, 2009. 6 more such triple eclipses will happen over the next decade until 2020.

Workplace is supposed to be a highly rational place. Your Human Resources (HR) team may tell you that there is no place for emotions at workplace. All the training programs and coaching sessions may be designed to develop and sharpen your left brain. Be analytical, every poster in your office may shout. Think before you act, your boss may tell you. Your year-end performance appraisal may be designed to give you a higher rating if you got assessed better on all those rational activities. However, you know really well that you are never a 100% rational person. You can never be.

A man sat at a metro station in Washington DC in the rush hour and started playing the violin; it was a cold January morning. He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. Three minutes went by and a middle aged man noticed that there was a musician playing. He slowed down and stopped for a few seconds and then hurried up to meet his schedule. A minute later, the violinist received his first dollar tip from a woman who went after throwing the money in the till. A few minutes later, a man leaned against the wall to listen to him, but then he looked at his watch and started walking again.

Some days ago, I picked up this book titled How to Talk so kids will listen & Listen so kids will talk as there were unanswered questions in my mind about why people respond in a particular manner to me although the intentions were good and straight forward. The answers came searching me from the pages of this book of Faber and Mazlish. I wasn't listening.

I just got curious this morning and picked up the book, ‘Lectures on Homeopathic Materia Medica’. You see we, as a family, have been quite interested in trying homeopathic medicines for our various small ailments. Our general hatred for allopathic treatment led us to try alternative curing methods. We have had reasonable healing effects on us with homeopathic medication. I just got curious this morning and picked up the book that has been lying at home for a while now.

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