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by Reena Daruwalla, guest writer for Nancy Hayssen.com

Unpleasant, negative, unfair, bad things happen to all of us as some or other point in our lives. At times like this, it is easy to feel overwhelmed, upset, distressed and ask that perennial question, “WHY ME?!!” The fact is, it’s not just you, it’s everyone at some or other point; fact is and to coin a phrase, “SHIT HAPPENS!”

It is what you choose to do with this unwanted negativity in your life that makes the difference. Do you proclaim yourself the victim and resign yourself to your fate with whining ill grace or do you choose not to (in the words of Dylan Thomas) “go gentle into that good night” and do you “rage, rage against the dying of the light”? Continue Reading…

by Reena Daruwalla, guest writer for Nancy Hayssen.com

I know that Father’s Day is still some days away (June 15 I believe), but for some reason I am missing papa terribly today. Now, more than 7 years after his passing away, I still think of him and miss him everyday; I still find that most men I have met don’t really measure up to him.

He was gentle, loving, very affectionate, very wise and knowledgeable, and had a rare facility to be able to explain things to me when I was a child and then equally as able to relate to me as a rebellious teen and later as an adult. Continue Reading…

by Reena Daruwalla, guest writer for Nancy Hayssen.com

In a place like India where the economy is so heavily dependent on the rains, sight, sound and smell of the first rain after a long hot, dry, arid, spell is an indescribably uplifting, blissful and joyful sound. Since our sensory experiences are visual, aural, tactile, and taste and smell related, each of our senses can elevate and enhance our mood.

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