Every marketer worth his salt should try understanding the needs of an infant.
He can do a bloody ethnographic study if that’s what he wants…
Let’s see what insights he garners
It was downright irresponsible of Dumbledore to leave a 1-year old baby at someone’s doorsteps.
What is the sleep schedule of the baby, does he feed during the night time, what about strays roaming about.
Just washing away his responsibility with ‘Good luck, Harry Potter.’
All theories are thrown out of the window the moment you are trying to make your baby go to sleep!
Any advice from well-meaning but not actively-involved relative has to be discarded without consideration.
It takes an army, still my baby doesn’t sleep. All tricks applied: food, swinging motion, to-and-fro motion, rocking, cooing: 4-7 AM difficult to manage.
Inexperienced me - out of my depths.
We constantly worry, make strenuous efforts to keep the balls juggling in the air - NEVER EVER LET THE BALL DROP.
Only to realise that the balls will keep on juggling sometimes, even without your efforts. Sometimes the act of juggling itself is not that important.
Chill!
Started reading ‘Doctor Sleep’ by Stephen King. I liked ‘The Shining’ - didn’t love it. I promised myself to stay away from the rambling, long-winding writing style that’s King - but here I am.
Killer line:
‘He had come to believe that life was a series of ironic ambushes’.
Low-key disappointed at the line-up at Bangalore Lit Fest this year. We have all the usual suspects (except, surprisingly Mr. Guha) but no dramatic new faces.
Sighs in relief!
Stranger Things Season 5 Vol. 1 is good, quite good - though not as great as Season 1!
That banger twist at the end of Episode 4 - loved it!
- comes into focus as a necessary course of events, even as we find ourselves on the threshold of a bold new life that we had been meant to lead all along.’
The last one: ‘He had said that our lives are steered by uncertainties, many of which are disruptive and daunting; but that if we persevere and remain generous of heart, we may be granted a moment of supreme lucidity - a moment in which all that has happened to us suddenly -