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HEALTH & WELLNESS | WABI SABI PHILOSOPHY

Farzana Contractor

believes in living life true
to her nature. To uphold
her missive – live life
simply, honestly – she
urges us to regain the old
style of stress-free living
like our forefathers did.
Think With Your Heart
When they knew just
how much was enough

Farzana Contractor to be content, happy
and healthy

Here’s to the Rhythm of the Rain…

I let me cry in vain/And let me be alone again…” with, it’s the scent…you agree? That blissful
love standing in my verandah and
smell of earth hanging in the air, especially
A record we would listen to endlessly
watching the rain, raining in the sea,
thick sheets of water. Into the Arabian
Can drive one mad. Its called petrichor. The
foxtrot.
Sea which spreads majestically in front of during the monsoons. Even dance to; the if you are somewhere surrounded by trees.
my home, sweeping into the horizon. It’s Yes, I am rain mad. Crazy about this scent that can calm you and rejuvenate you
a phenomenal sight, the white foamy surf season. I am at my best in these months. I like no other perfume. Plant oils mixed with
lashing at the shore, the palm trees swaying enjoy the rain, I savour every moment of moisture droplets and earthiness, left free
madly in the stormy winds, dancing to the it. Enjoy every experience. From watching into the air, a gift from God. Close your eyes,
rhythm of the falling rain. the rain, to walking in the
I have the strongest urge to rain, being drenched and
run down and do the same. cold, yet feeling warm
Dancing in the rain cleanses within. Driving in the rain,
your soul. cruising past the waterfalls
But I stand there of Mahabaleshwar is another
mesmerised by the tableau in high. Also, like Gene Kelly, I
front and replay a childhood go kicking puddles in the rain
memory. Ishratbhai, my in Panchgani, where I make
eldest brother, piling a set it a point to be every June,
of six 45s on the turntable of for the first showers to inhale
the record changer and gently the best fragrance there is and
clicking the start lever. The watch the dust being washed off
record at the bottom falls, the the leaves. Making little rivulets
tone arm of the record player in the muddy paths. And by the
goes with perfect precision and way, If you are not aware of Gene
touches down on the vinyl record and we Kelly’s Singing in the Rain, immediately go to
hear a crashing crescendo, a mix of thunder YouTube and seek the video! It is so uplifting.
and rain. It’s the rhythm of the rain. “Listen I thank Behram for introducing Gene and
to the rhythm of the falling rain/Telling me just Fred Astaire into my life.
what a fool I’ve been/I wish that it would go and So what’s it about the rain? To begin

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