I still vividly remember your amazing Arangetram performance & it motivated me to have my daughter complete hers. As for the Dean, he clearly exposed his ignorance big time!!!
Thank you for sharing that--I didn't know! Regarding the dean, I'm guessing he was assessing whether I was thick-skinned enough for the program. Still, I doubt that that sort of comment would be acceptable these days! Thanks so much for listening/reading!
This, right here: "Moving through that discomfort, though, I realized that that call actually did befit the form—because it was a call for me to remember who I am and to say what I truly want to say." Love. :)
I am honored and so happy this resonated, Surabhi! It always surprises me how different threads of one's life come together to make a poem. Thank you so much for your note!
I still vividly remember your amazing Arangetram performance & it motivated me to have my daughter complete hers. As for the Dean, he clearly exposed his ignorance big time!!!
Thank you for sharing that--I didn't know! Regarding the dean, I'm guessing he was assessing whether I was thick-skinned enough for the program. Still, I doubt that that sort of comment would be acceptable these days! Thanks so much for listening/reading!
This, right here: "Moving through that discomfort, though, I realized that that call actually did befit the form—because it was a call for me to remember who I am and to say what I truly want to say." Love. :)
Wish it weren't so hard to hold on to that conviction in the face of "attack"!
So, so lovely. I love ghazal poetry. The form is itself evocative.
Thank you, Celeste! You're just so kind!
Another interesting essay and poem. Wow! That dean!!! I think I’d have been completely thrown by such a remark. I’m impressed that you were not.
Truthfully, I almost was. I remember how those moments after the comment sort of swelled open, and I could just as easily taken another path!
Love this. That dean--ugh!
Yes, it took me by surprise! Thanks so much for your note, Barbara!
Thank you Dheepa for writing another powerful and heartfelt piece.
Kudos! I know I will be listening to this more than once to relish it fully.
I particularly loved your lines, "It is more than show, more than story, more than a human being on a stage, true dance." You are a great storyteller.
I am honored and so happy this resonated, Surabhi! It always surprises me how different threads of one's life come together to make a poem. Thank you so much for your note!