Round The Table - Discuss

Thank you JAG for this! This might as well be the next obsession I can introduce DS to

 

You are amazing JAG! Thank you

You are such a friend running with me, pushing me to read better....thank you!

 

SN, what a fascinating read it made!

I am only hoping that I will introduce at least to DS What an amazing personality he seemed to have been! Very Fascinating. (BTW the only reason I speak mostly about him, is well he is a little older than DD and at an age where he is interested, can comprehend and take things further on his own. DD is still a baby....in my eyes) Reading about Paul Erdos ability to do the math in seconds a person had lived, I am reminded of DS doing a similar math at a similar age and telling his grandfather "well grandpa, you have lost this many seconds of your life already because of your smoking :hide: I was and am still thankful that he spoke like that at that age! And just yesterday I had a breakthrough of sorts when my most difficult and I hate math teenager was all smiles and actually loved what she did and had an improvement in her grade and promised her a DQ gift card if she just kept up her grades and not actually solve an unresolved problem. Honestly, all I have been trying to tell her, you just have to love to learn, doesn't matter what subject. You are too young to form such hard beliefs about yourself and what you come across. With talks ranging from God knows what to what, finally I seemed to have a small break through! These are the moments that makes it all worthy!

Seriously Uttaraa, thank you for this thread. I am constantly at my wits end wondering in I am doing everything possible to keep the interest of learning in kids. Now at least I know where to turn to, thanks to you and others!

 

Dear Utts,

ah! Anu Garg. I was such a long time subscriber to her "word a day" after reading about the couple in a Smithsonian magazine!

Now now girl, should you make a girl tear up at 5 in the am with these words and you bring such sophistication and understanding to what I might have just babbled. If i have made this much sense to you, it is you Uttaraa and your comprehension of what I have spoken. Now I will remember these words to carry me through when I slip.

You do know my two munchkins are the reason for any learning - doesn't benefit them, doesn't make sense to me :-(

Thank you! You are doing such an amazing job. All I am doing is trying to catch up with all the information that is being shared.

I knew I shouldn't have logged on to this thread first thing after waking (yes, crazy to do that) I should have been in the gym trying to work out and update JAG in the running club. But as I peered through the supposedly clear early morning skies, I shivered noticing a 2F outside temperature on my phone, waddled down, turned the comp on and here I am. Running and sprinting can wait for a day right? I am only glad I came to the thread for and did not go back into that warm bed and am reading at least. Lovely way to start my morning!

 

Thanks JAG. Mmmm...let me see...I watch movies but not very good at remembering much of them later. I also suffer from a lack of curiosity about film world.

You? Literature challenged? Now, I'll believe the cow jumped over the moon!!

 

HI Uttara

You hit the nail on the head.
Ponniyin Selvan is indeed a marvelous piece of literature.

The impact that novel left on me was so tremendous I could not read any other book for more than a year.

Even now, I find other authors writings very pale and lack that finesse and class I find in Sri Kalki Krishnamurthy's works.

Sri Kalki was such a great visionary and so advanced in this thinking on social reformation. His articles and other stories all occupy my bookshelf and I read them all over and over again without getting tired.