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Blog site changed to: www.shishursevay.wordpress.com

www.shishursevay.wordpress.com For a while the Typepad site was blocked, and even after days and days of working with Typepad support we could not get it to work. This was probably due to government blocking, as there were news reports of... Continue reading

Posted Aug 19, 2011 at Shishur Sevay

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Blog continues at www.shishursevay.wordpress.com

Find us at http://shishursevay.wordpress.com/ For a while I could not get into typepad, in spite of days of working with the typepad team. I could see posts but could not write or change. The final conclusion was that the government... Continue reading

Posted Jun 13, 2011 at Shishur Sevay

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Charlene, You got it! I haven't heard of this at the other missionary schools, but who knows really? So much goes on, everwhere, that no one knows about until the questions are asked. And parents are very cowed by school administrators and teachers. Kolkata: The City of Egg Shells! thanks for listening.

Commented May 5, 2011 on Cleanliness is Next to Godliness at Shishur Sevay

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Cleanliness is Next to Godliness

I'm here in NYC, at the home of my older daughter, her husband, and my new granddaughter. But my mind keeps going back to India. I can honestly say that nothing I've seen or experienced in India over the last... Continue reading

Posted May 5, 2011 at Shishur Sevay

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Children On Their Own

My previous blog asked the question of , "Another word for Orphan is _____?" I've had lots of good suggestions, but none that spoke to the experience of their solitary existence, their un-rootedness. None seemed to be what they might... Continue reading

Posted Apr 24, 2011 at Shishur Sevay

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Another Word for Orphan is _____BLANK_______.

Words, names, labels... I'm working on a brochure for Shishur Sevay, with a deadline of one week. I need to get it done and out. I'm slow because I keep getting lost in pictures, and memories. "My kids are sooooo... Continue reading

Posted Apr 16, 2011 at Shishur Sevay

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Making Peace at the End of the Lane

We have brokered peace in the neighborhood. We still want to move, but it will not happen quickly. We simply don't have the money. But we do have peace for now, and it's been a process involving the neighbors and... Continue reading

Posted Mar 31, 2011 at Shishur Sevay

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Just Another Day...

The girls are getting ready to go to sleep. The TV is off, lights out, and they have closed the door to my office so I won't hear them whispering. The classroom cleaning team is almost finished and soon they... Continue reading

Posted Mar 15, 2011 at Shishur Sevay

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Succession Planning - The Elephant in the Room

The "elephant in the room" is an expression describing when something is so obvious, but no one wants to talk about it. So they talk about it, pretending it is not there. The elephant, the most obvious problem and challenge... Continue reading

Posted Mar 13, 2011 at Shishur Sevay

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The Girls Discover the Internet

This is a moment I worried about, when the girls discovered the internet and You Tube. Now I have to make sure access is controlled. It hasn't been, as teachers use it for teaching. But now the girls have figured... Continue reading

Posted Mar 6, 2011 at Shishur Sevay

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Remembering the Essence of Our Work

In the midst of all the problems of the neighborhood, finding a new home, we cannot allow ourselves to be distracted from why Shishur Sevay exists. We are here for the children, our children, for their education, their safety, their... Continue reading

Posted Mar 4, 2011 at Shishur Sevay

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Finding our way through this challenge of where we will live...

Yesterday people came to look at the house. They liked it and they will bring the rest of the family tomorrow. The ones who came to look were four Punjabi men, two generations -- nice people I would want to... Continue reading

Posted Mar 1, 2011 at Shishur Sevay

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Mar 1, 2011

Shishur Sevay at the End of the Lane

It has been hard explaining exactly what is the trouble, and why we have to move, but we can still stay in the general neighborhood. So I made a picture. When I was a kid I spent hours and hours... Continue reading

Posted Feb 26, 2011 at Shishur Sevay

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When my younger daughter was little she used to assess me as to whether I had been a good mother or not for that day. The assessment tended to be weighted towards the end of the day, so if I... Continue reading

Posted Feb 22, 2011 at Shishur Sevay

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Facing the Necessity of Moving

"OK," I say to myself, "But how do I do this?" Where do I start? Do we find a place to live first or sell the house first? Breaking down the process to individual parts, or challenges, I see the... Continue reading

Posted Feb 21, 2011 at Shishur Sevay

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The Aftermath of Goondas at the Gates

Before the night after Saraswati Puja, the night of the "Barbarians at the Gates" more aptly here, the "Goonda's at the Gates" life was already challenging -- just the work of raising 12 children with different needs, schooling, nurturing, guiding,... Continue reading

Posted Feb 15, 2011 at Shishur Sevay

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Barbarians at the Gate: 10th February 2011

It is always a struggle as to how much to reveal about the harsh realities of life here. Tonight was another riot at our gate; the police responded eventually. No, we are not safe here. I don't know what the... Continue reading

Posted Feb 10, 2011 at Shishur Sevay

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A Trip to the Science Fair at BITM

Shishur Sevay enjoys a wonderful relationship with the Birla Industrial and Technological Museum (BITM). We happened to go there one day, loved it, and have been back several times since. I don't know how to reference past posts but I... Continue reading

Posted Jan 16, 2011 at Shishur Sevay

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"If you don't like your mother, you can always go to the Mall for another one."

It has to have been more than ten years ago. The words are still with me, "If you don't like your mother you can always go to the Mall for another one." My daughter and I still "joke" about it.... Continue reading

Posted Jan 7, 2011 at Shishur Sevay

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Christmas in the Park

Our Christmas here is a secular one, and it is a lot of fun because the girls have no expectations. It's just a chance to celebrate, and to take part in another part of Indian culture. (As I write this... Continue reading

Posted Dec 25, 2010 at Shishur Sevay

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Why SHOULD Orphans be Poor?

"Well, none of our donors are going to pay this much to feed orphans! They won't pay for orphans to eat what a wealthy child would eat!" Sitting and talking with us was a man connected with several funding groups,... Continue reading

Posted Nov 28, 2010 at Shishur Sevay

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"Madam! The Girls are Nervous! You must meet with them in the next few days!!!"

The teacher was responding to my question as to whether she had marked and scored the practice examinations she had just given to the girls. No she had not. She had marked mistakes but had not scored the papers. Why?... Continue reading

Posted Nov 25, 2010 at Shishur Sevay

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There are No Simple Days

Today is Children's Day. We spent it in the country. We went to visit a home for children with disabilities started by a friend here. She has spent her life in the area of social services. The children are sent... Continue reading

Posted Nov 14, 2010 at Shishur Sevay

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Sometimes I am Humbled by My Girls.

Jumping right into the subject, this afternoon a teacher told me about an interraction she had the day before with one of the girls. "Aunty, every night I pray to God. I don't want anything for myself. I just pray... Continue reading

Posted Nov 12, 2010 at Shishur Sevay

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