Sabine and Griffins

I am zapped. The book is awesome but its beauty lies in its art....amazing. How did I manage to miss it for so long. It completes itself in three marvelously creative books, that captivate you with their style and obviously the mystery.
Sabine and Griffins by Nick Bantock, is book written on personally created stationary by two artists Sabine and Griffins. It has postcards and letter s, the concept is new and the art is stunning. It is a book just right for my yet to be created library in the home of my dreams. Perfect.

ok...now let me describe it further. The first book begins with Sabine’s postcard to Griffins. Since childhood, Sabine has had visions of one man’s drawings as though she were looking through his eyes while he was working and then when she was in her late 20’s she found that the artist was Griffin. And so starts this amazing correspondence. Who is Sabine? Is she real or a figment of artistic imagination. They soon realize that they are madly in love, but mysterious circumstances prohibit their meeting. Are they corresponding through time? Can they ever meet? The trilogy completes the story. One more addition to my library. Fantastic.

stressed out doing nothing

There is a sudden lull in my work and it's quite disconcerting. My schedule is totally disrupted by doing nothing. Somehow I always thought that nothingness is a sublime state; it's what is prescribed as the antidote to our stressful lives, but here I am feeling like jumping out of my skin and restlessness is pervading my being. Not good.
Wonder if this is what happens when people retire. Thankfully I have chosen a career that has no retirement age only Alzheimer’s can strike me down. But what about those professions that end with a certain age? Nothingness is not easy to deal with. It needs prodigious control or you totally slip out of hand.
I am dealing with my stress in the only way I know by writing. Its not contagious so don’t worry while reading these wandering thoughts. I have finally thought out my book and will try and use this time for constructive work.

Comfort reads

Flashbacks....that’s what I am doing now. My reading is going reverse gear as I re-read the classics and enjoy the books that I had long digested. Reading the old favorites is like gorging on comfort food- totally relaxing. For a change, I know what will happen on the next page, heck I even know what will happen in the end and I am not examining the writing style....its total relaxation. And once I get in this mood it’s very hard to get a new book and stick through with it. So my list includes:
1. P G Wodehouse (not the Jeeves ones)
2. Kidnapped
3. Jane Eyre (my old favorite)
There is nothing more to write about them....

The messenger

Everyday, as I cross the Juhu circle, there is a man standing on the divider. He doesn’t beg nor is he waiting to crossover. He just stands in between that mad rush hour traffic holding a plain white banner. The words are not well calligraphed, the style is hasty but the words are arresting: Follow your religion. Love everybody.
The words make you stop and think before you rush ahead.
A simple message a great idea.