| Sunday, 01 September 2024 |
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Good morning [%first_name |Dear Reader%],
Sunday mornings are no different than the rest of the mornings in a week. It’s just that we are in a frame of mind to appreciate their calmness, beauty, and meaning.
“It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.”
Wendell Berry
I am not lying when I say that I’ve become a more conscious connoisseur of Sundays after I started writing First Principles.
And 249 of you responded to my request last week to help figure out which day and time of the week we largely read First Principles. I was holding my breath, because I was afraid of how I would need to change the way I pictured you.
Phew. We are definitely a Sunday morning habit.
I have some good news and some sad news. After a nerve-wrenching 8-day disappearance, I found the mama dog earlier this week (read our last edition if you aren’t caught up with the story yet). She had her litter in a small outdoor shed belonging to the caretakers of a nearby empty lot.
I had gone to feed “Brindle Boy” (as described by reader Jude D’Souza), her son-from-the-last-litter. Unable to find him in his usual spot, I walked around the place whistling my characteristic whistle, the one that both mama and son recognise and respond to.
Suddenly, the flimsy shed made of corrugated metal sheets started shaking violently, as though someone was trying to push it down. I went and peered inside it, and there she was, thrilled to see me and wagging her tail furiously. She wolfed through the food in minutes, obviously hungry. Her few day-old pups were asleep in a faraway corner.
The next day, I saw her running around and playing with Brindle Boy too.
My thanks to the multiple readers who wrote in offering tips and contacts to get the duo sterilised and vaccinated. I’m going to ensure that this time.
The sad news is that Anushka Mukherjee, who originally started with us as a podcast producer before also becoming the books editor for FP Sundays, is leaving us.
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