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Balance | Pretindia
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The cookies tasted pretty good. I gave a batch to my grandparents on Christmas Eve, after joining a number of my family members that afternoon at a megachurch in Dallas called Watermark. The place was so crowded that we were seated in the West Community Room, which was the overflow from the 300-seat Chapel, which was the overflow from the 2,100-seat Worship Center. Service at which the same verses were read in Greek and English and French.). It was a pleasure to reconnect to a familiar ritual and aesthet...
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Friendship and Other Sources of Hope | Pretindia
https://jasonhinojosa.wordpress.com/2010/11/09/friendship-and-other-sources-of-hope
Friendship and Other Sources of Hope. About two weeks ago, I noticed the scent of cardamom in the air. I was finally overcoming a sinus infection, feeling sudden strength as my illness passed, and witnessing the end of the Durga Puja holiday. Were then dismantled in slow stages, and the once-crowded streets became quiet and familiar again. And the magical, impossible, cool, and evocative scent of cardamom moved in the air unseen and inexplicable throughout the city. Rob flew to Kolkata from Hong Kong via...