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A discarded book from the library, this has been on my shelf for years. It‘s a thoroughly immersive story from India. Sarika, a teenager and accomplished singer, falls in love with her music teacher, her guru. It is a story of music, of the passion and spirituality of Indian music, of jealousy, of a variety of societal pressures, and a dash of politics. The writing brought a vivid sense of place and I‘m missing it already.

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Last night I started reading the tagged book. As I was immersed in it, the bells from the church next door to me started ringing. I have no idea why. There was no one there to ring the bells. That inspired me to get off the couch and go out for a walk. The snow was falling gently (for some reason you can‘t see it in the photo) and there was absolute silence as I walked through the village. The bells, the silence, the book...all divine.