New Book

We got a new book this week titled Nectar in a Sieve. This first post is going to elaborate upon the natural disasters or how people are affected in the book. The monsoon comes in the book at around chapter 5-6 or something like that. The monsoon comes in and literally destroys everything. I find it quite interesting that despite the monsoon and the destruction good things can happen. As Ruku and Nathan break the dams around the rice paddy she recalls,

"When the water was all gone, there they were caught in the meshes and among the paddy, shoals of them leaping madly, wet and silver and good to look upon" (Markandaya 44).

Good things happen to us if we keep our faith up and believe that things will turn out for the better. As long as we find things to be grateful for everyday then we find that life is good, and we are blessed. That is what this passage means to me. Life is good.