Author Archives: Ramya Ranganathan

I remember my early stints at trying to work – each a disaster in it’s own way. I was bound in frustration and angst at that time, but now the memories have lost their sting – in fact they make me smile (and I even feel grateful for the path that they subsequently launched meContinueContinue reading “Do You Love Your Work?”

What are the things that get you excited to wake up each morning and start another day, sing another verse, write another chapter in the evolving story of your life? What keeps you going when you start wondering if your life and existence have any meaning at all? What fills you up with the juiceContinueContinue reading “Crafting Realities: Work, Happiness and Meaning – Free Course on edX”

I was listening to an interesting call and the speaker mentioned something about how many of us feel shy or reserved about putting our products and services ‘out there’ and communicating it’s value to others in order to make them aware of it. I realized that this was true for me as well. In factContinueContinue reading “Dancing in The Now”

Had a very interesting discussion yesterday in my sons school PTA. His school has a very interesting format for PTA where we start the day with a circle time for the parents and teachers (no children), and we have a dialogue on a topic that is sent out earlier as ‘home study’. Yesterday’s topic wasContinueContinue reading “Being a Parent”

So last night my son was searching on the internet for a poem on ‘Fats’. They are currently learning about nutrition in school and this was part of his homework – to search for a poem on fats. On an impulse I told him, “hey why search, I’ll write one for you “and within minutesContinueContinue reading “Do you want a Customized Poem ?”

I heard this often before but I am realizing how true it is only now. The more we share, the more we give, the more the Universe fills us up with that which we are sharing and the more we have to share. I realized this with knowledge (as I started my career in teaching,ContinueContinue reading “Invitation to Use Energy Tools as a way of Crafting Your Life”

Something had been bothering me for the last two weeks and while glimpses of sunshine were coming and going, today finally a veil lifted and I saw that what had appeared to be a problem (or catastrophe) in one way had actually opened up a lot of more possibilities for me. And of course itContinueContinue reading “The Thieves that Set Me Free”

This morning I was walking in our stadium which has a row of ponge trees along it’s periphery. More than twenty elegant ponge trees line about half the circumference of the stadium and form a lovely border for the open green expanse in between. I noticed however that while all the other trees were flauntingContinueContinue reading “Do you have to Bloom all the time? What is Your Blooming Season ?”

Exactly two years back, somewhat as a new year’s resolution for 2016 I wrote a poem titled, ‘I’m Choosing Life’. That poem was shared more than any of my other poems and I heard back from several people on how they were inspired to choose more of what was ‘Life’ for them. As it turnsContinueContinue reading “Are You Choosing Life, Choosing Death, or Choosing Neither?”

Last evening I was playing a game of Bluff with some friends (Bluff is a card game where the first person to get rid of all his cards by bluffing his or her way through wins). It was so much fun, we were on a roll trying to bluff one another and I was havingContinueContinue reading “Giving up the Need to be Understood”