This holiday season I can’t help but chuckle again at a conversation a good friend of mine (let’s call her Devi) and I had earlier this year, comparing notes on our respective upbringings with specific regard to things, stuff, gifts … you know, materialism. She was telling me how her mother had one very principled and very uncompromising refrain: We believe in Simple Living, High Thinking. (And given her mother speaks with a Malayali accent, it goes: Simmbile Living, Hiiiiigh Dinging.) On top of childhood trauma, Devi is still reeling from the fact that her mother stuck to her principles even during kanyadaan, refusing to weigh down her daughter with multiple, overlapping strands of 24-karat gold on her wedding day. Now that’s quite a feat; a desi parent sticking to no-materialism principles at her daughter’s marriage! (more…)
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Simple Living, High Thinking
Posted in childhood memories, culture, humor, psychology, relationships, transculturalism, tagged Joanne Heim, Living Simply on December 23, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Reflections and Revelations 