Category: excerpts

On queued thoughts, Frida, fortitude, erudites & trauma.

I poured my coffee and opened the day’s delivery—a fresh harvest in my inbox, stacks of printed words, and queued thoughts, itching to be read. Then, many reads later, as usual, I strayed off the beaten path and into the web’s untamed thickets.

This caught my attention.

Maria Popova’s journal is one of my subscribed reads. Brilliant intellect.

In this article, Popova illuminated the inner fortitude Frida possessed to endure incredible suffering and trauma. Maria Popova skillfully revealed Frida’s vulnerability and challenges that tortured her, something I feel was overshadowed in the public eye by her intense creativity and rebellious personality.

The Courage of Vulnerability: Teenage Frida Kahlo’s Moving Letters to Her First Love

Frida.

Today’s excerpt. on onions, pregnancy and being a foreigner.

These are a few sentences that simply stayed…

“Though no longer pregnant, she continues, at times, to mix Rice Krispies and peanuts and onions in a bowl. For being a foreigner Ashima is beginning to realize, is a sort of lifelong pregnancy — a perpetual wait, a constant burden, a continuous feeling out of sorts. It is an ongoing responsibility, a parenthesis in what had once been an ordinary life, only to discover that previous life has vanished, replaced by something more complicated and demanding.”
— Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

I came across this excerpt and felt the need to share…. It spoke volumes…beyond the interesting rice krispies mix! The expression of this insight on life in 3 sentences was a feat.

That being said…a disclaimer I failed to post and do so now.

I don’t sell books, nor do I plug my own. I constantly peruse the net and find things. Read books and find things. If the finds provoke thought &/or emotion? I share. – That is what Erratica is about. No selling, no plugging, no reviews. Just what is interesting sprinkled with a musing or two…Just saying.

6 You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you aren’t troubled, for all this must happen, but the end is not yet. 
7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there will be famines, plagues, and earthquakes in various places. 
8 But all these things are the beginning of birth pains.
9 “Then they will deliver you up to oppression and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name’s sake. 
10 Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another. 
11 Many false prophets will arise and will lead many astray. 
12 Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold. 1
3 But he who endures to the end will be saved.

Matthew 24:6-13 (world english bible)