Portraits

They danced for nearly forty long years. And we loved them every minute. Happy anniversary, mummy & daddy!

You turn 34 today! I’ve known you for seventeen of those years. (I’ve known you half your life! :) We’ve been in love, eight. And I’ve been privileged to share my life with you, and walk with you for nearly, six. I cannot imagine life without you. You love crazy movies; (Which you drag me to.) You can engineer anything out of anything. (rain gutters out of old bisleri bottles,...

Memento Mori and gratitude! That is all…

“I love you, I do – you have my word. You have all my words.” — Lang Leav, Lullabies

(My toast at Nuts’ communion reception on the 3rd of January, 2016 … posted for posterity) Hello! Good Evening to all you warm folks … and a Happy New Year! That gorgeous girl (sorry not this one – that one) over there is my wife of four years :) She is Natanya’s much, older cousin :) Which is how I met Natanya four years ago. I wanted her to be my flower girl, but when I saw her, it was love at first sight and I asked her to marry me instead!...

It’s been two months since we checked you in. Four, since we figured out what was eating you alive. A year and two months, since we started battling it. You’ve been so brave, through it all! Through scans and needles and burning meds Sleepless nights, and broken muscles, and A lost voice, unable to eat, to speak And even though you’re tired, I’m so glad we made it through....

My mother wants me to write for her … You wrote for Daddy, she said. Now write a little something for me too. Such is Mummy. Satisfied with love. So here’s to you Mummy! Happy 60th! Sometimes I think, being a mother is all she ever knows. She had three boys by the time she was twenty eight. Daddy worked two jobs, to feed us. Leaving Mummy to handle three hyperactive boys....

“I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine.” I take thee Abby, to be my wedded wife, to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part … I will love you, and honour you, all the days of my life!

Li’l Princess Natanya!

My mom is a never-ending song in my heart, of comfort, happiness, and being. I may sometimes forget the words … but I always remember the tune – Anon