Epic Observations About Indian...Epics.

In 6 Bad Mental Habits that Sabotage Your Success, the author constructs her advice well. Rather than just saying what you  are doing wrong, which I have seen some authors do and just leave it at that, she gently encourages the reader to be positive in concrete ways. She suggests making an extra effort to focus on what you can do rather than what you can't or what's holding you back. She suggests being less harsh with yourself by talking to yourself like you do your good friends, which is something I learned to do not too long ago. It helps immensely. The author seems to understand that you can't just throw ideas at people and make them figure out how to enact them. It helps to be helpful. The author does this in the way that she points out problems and offers simple, concrete solutions. In Recalibrating the Perfectionist Mind , though it is after a longer description, the author of this article also begins to offer solutions to letting go of perfectionism, such as makin...

Nagini: Naga seem like they're kind of like the snake version of a centaur. There's a lot of really great sculpture that features them. It'd be interesting to do something from the perspective of a Nagini, which is a female Naga. I'm not sure exactly what the premise would be, but so far, the core idea I've been toying with is putting together a tumblr blog for a specific character, surrounding the four main stories with aesthetic posts and other reblogs to make the blog seem more realistic. It seems like their depictions vary between good and evil, and it could be interesting to explore that. Goddess: It would also be interesting to put together a blog from the perspective of a goddess. Vaishno Devi , the goddess of the hills, looks like an interesting character. There's even a comic about her, so maybe I could utilize some of those photos in her tumblr blog. It seems like she's a mother goddess, so maybe she could run an advice blog. There's also T...

"I bet you won't do it." Buddy frowned at Devon. Devon was always taunting him, trying to get him to do things he shouldn't. He hugged too hard, and he even tried to bite him once. Buddy tried to play nice, but it was hard sometimes. Today, Devon was trying to goad Buddy into picking flowers from the house on the end of the street. All the kids on the block were scared of the house on the end of the street. It was dark, with an overgrown garden, and it had a tall wire fence around it to keep people out. It took up the entire end of the cul-de-sac. All of the kids used to just avoid it, but ever since someone had realized they could squeeze through the fence, now all of the kids dared each other to sneak onto the property to ring the doorbell or pick flowers from the garden. "You're just scared." "No I'm not," Buddy replied in his most grown-up voice. "It's just that my Mommy says I can't." "Buddy's scared!...

Rabbit : The foolish and the wise, and the perils of not distinguishing between them. Turtle : One turtle takes advantage of the lack of knowledge found in others. The other turtle is foolish, and cannot stand the mockery of others, and it causes his death. Crane and Crab : Bit dark. Crane eats all the fish, then the crab chops his head off. Yet another trickster tale. Monkey : Crocodile tries to eat the monkey by drowning him in the river. Monkey tells him his heart is in a tree. Crocodile has no heart to give his wife. The monkey is Buddha. Crocodile : The crocodile pretends to be a rock, and the monkey Buddha knows how tall all the rocks are. Crocodiles close their eyes when they open their mouths. Lotus : The ogre carries the monkey Buddha's flowers because the monkey Buddha is the most cleverest. Devadatta is the one that always tries to kill him. Unruly Monks : If you're an unruly deer, you die. If you're a rooster and you don't crow at the right times, yo...

So we're supposed to look through some of the readings. It feels a bit different, flipping ahead. I don't think I've done this before in any other classes. There are a lot of options to consider. I'll probably skip most of the audio and video options, honestly. All the audiobooks I've ever tried to listen to have moved way too slow. That may just be because I'm used to moving through stories a bit more quickly. So I know that ahead of time.  I think one story I'm really looking forward to is Sita, Promila, and Shakuntala . It sounds like it focuses on the women of the story, which is something I'm intrigued by. And the picture is of a cool lady on a horse with a sword, so I like that too. In week 9, I'm a bit torn. Savitri, Damayanti, Sati, and Uttara sounds fascinating, but so does the more in-depth telling of Krishna's life . I do so love stories about women, but backstories are fun too. Either way, it'll be fun to be reading new st...