Today’s excerpt. on onions, pregnancy and being a foreigner.

These are a few sentences that simply stayed…

“Though no longer pregnant, she continues, at times, to mix Rice Krispies and peanuts and onions in a bowl. For being a foreigner Ashima is beginning to realize, is a sort of lifelong pregnancy — a perpetual wait, a constant burden, a continuous feeling out of sorts. It is an ongoing responsibility, a parenthesis in what had once been an ordinary life, only to discover that previous life has vanished, replaced by something more complicated and demanding.”
— Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

I came across this excerpt and felt the need to share…. It spoke volumes…beyond the interesting rice krispies mix! The expression of this insight on life in 3 sentences was a feat.

That being said…a disclaimer I failed to post and do so now.

I don’t sell books, nor do I plug my own. I constantly peruse the net and find things. Read books and find things. If the finds provoke thought &/or emotion? I share. – That is what Erratica is about. No selling, no plugging, no reviews. Just what is interesting sprinkled with a musing or two…Just saying.