Category: ManjulasMysore

Reflective space

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What is it?

An opportunity to meet to share your thoughts with other young adults (and one or two who are just young at heart)

Our monthly meeting is a way to connect and share with other open minded people ….

Reflect on what’s happening in the world, consider what the future holds, support each other, share the mistakes we’ve made and lessons we’re learned, be more active and less passive.

…and stroke a dog (Lucie) and a cat (Billet-Doux). If you’re lucky, there maybe cake.

Interested?

Check the links on this page for more information.

https://meandmycycle.com/2024/07/17/whats-to-talk-about/

https://meandmycycle.com/2023/09/11/who-we-are-and-what-we-do/

Send an email to Stephen with any questions. He’s on tours@mycycle.co

Join the WhatsApp group. https://chat.whatsapp.com/CReQUVWoPWNJlybLbPsFTi to get notice about future meetings.

We’re part of Manjula’s Mysore everything we do is in her name and memory

which provides ….

– a monthly reflective space

– individual meetings and smaller focus groups, (on request)

– access to Manjula’s library

– opportunity to suggest innovations and help implement them

Mysore Bed and Breakfast and mycycle tours.

from Stephen

The not-so-young one.

Manjula is still with us, even though her beautiful spirit has gone to find a new host.

Reflecting Again and again

Blossoming

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When will it fulfil its destiny?

The flower would appear each year at this time, carefully nurtured by MAnjula.

Eagerly anticipated, she’d predict what night it would blossom only to fold in on itself by the morning.

A short intense appearance not unlike MAnjula who dramatically changed my life.

The aroma even reaches into the house
I know I know the old git is an unwelcome distraction from the beautiful pair below…

It’s all no accident as she radiated the sun herself, through her smile, her presence every inch of her being. Two queens together.

What’s to talk about?

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Whatever you want.

Reflective space is Our monthly meeting of young adults to discuss anything of interest.

What a wonderful group of people, with a wide range of experience and interests.

Our special guest was Sarvesh visiting from Australia.

We discussed education, medicine, culture and much more.

We ‘d reconvened after a gap of two months due to me being pre-occupied with school summer holiday and my own holiday to Europe.

Next month our special guest is Maria. We want find out about her and what she does so we expect it will cover women’s empowerment and support for children, as she has experience in those fields.

Meetings will now be held each month.

If you want to join a future meeting write to Stephen at tours@mycycle.co

Off she goes

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I often joke about our very own version of ‘Driving Miss Daisy’ Hollywood movie with in our case the old white guy driving the beautiful MAnjula on her ‘rounding.’

Well she’s off to be rejuvenated.

What colour will be revealed in March?

Guests become friends

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We would often say how lucky we are to have found each other and shared our home with a constant stream of new friends arriving at our door.

We had visitors yesterday.

A lovely family who first came to stay with us ten years ago with their young daughters.

What a lovely surprise.


B C Shetty and Mamatha
Dhrithi and Diya

Dhrithi and Diya have now grown to be strong clever young women, a real credit to their parents and themselves. At ages 15 and 17 they’ve been home schooled.

Fantastic and a great example how the women in India are seriously getting their act together.

Wonderful positive shared memories of MAnjula and our friends

The family are from Karkala and work full time for their NGO Kadike Trust and promote udupisaree

In August 2013

Blah blah blah

Two more Godfather cards were given out.

Guests’ wishes and memories of MAnjula

I can’t believe it

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Goats surf the net to find scrumptious garden.

One or two we can tolerate. But a whole bunch aka tribe, trip or flock munching on Manjula’s garden is a bite too far.

I don’t know how they found the garden or got inside. Maybe they did find it on the net or the two that found it last week, passed the message on.

They were chased out of town (ok the garden) with my big stick and shrill whistle. They conveniently led me straight to the owners.

Who knows how the ‘farmer’ can stop it happening. I’ll use the same aversion therapy if it happens again but I’ll complain to the council/Corporation. Their neighbours know this and have passed it on. Any more problems and they may have to shift them.

Next Meeting .

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Reflective Space

Last Friday. 5 for 6 at Mysore Bed and Breakfast 29th September.

Share your thoughts, experiences and insights.

This is an open meeting for young adults and the young at heart. Meeting itself 6-8, beforehand for drinks, cake, browse the library.

Any questions or suggestions contact Stephen.

The ‘closed’ membership group is likely to start in the new year.

Please check our previous announcement for more details.

New thing… learning.

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I shared this joke as I’m currently working out how to help children think (creatively, divergently and critically) as part of my new thing. (Contemplating working with kaveri’s school, if they’ll have me) I’m looking into Kohlberg’s Stages Of Moral Development after starting to read this book ….

Postscript

I’ve also been reading Ken Robinson’s books. Great insights about how our education systems are designed for the Industrial Revolution preparing children to slot into jobs that will not exist. So we need to help them to have the competencies associated with adaptability, effective communication and developing relationships. I agree but there seems to be an added problem in achieving that. We don’t help them to think for themselves, to be innovative, we suppress it and expect them to know their place. That is an even older approach, it’s medieval and wrong.