Two years ago, I fractured my foot and was laid low for a month. That helped me read up on financial planning and substantially clean up my finances. Very helpful, that was :-)
On Dec 29, 2016 10:41 AM, "Udhay Shankar N" <ud...@pobox.com> wrote: > I got reminded of this message [1] from an earlier conversation recently. > To quote Ramu from then (are you still reading silk, Ramu?) > > <quote> > I read voluminously, but my most vivid reading experience was during a > summer vacation at my family's Kottayam (Kerala) rubber plantation, > surrounded by bucolic country cousins whom I couldn't talk to, and didn't > want to. The only thing to read in the house was a tattered volume of > Shakespeare. It had 'Twelfth Night', 'All's Well That Ends Well' and 'The > Taming Of The Shrew'. With illustrations. I was ten. I read that damned > book for all it was worth. Over those two miserable months, I wore it down > to a shadow. It was my only escape from a place I wanted to flee. I milked > it dry, made Shakespearan mega-movies in my head; can still spout entire > passages. Nothing that I've read since has been as rich and hallucinatory. > It wasn't the book so much as what my imagination desperately did with it > (I might have squeezed as much out of the Kottayam telephone directory). > That mildewed book supplied my entire vacation. > </quote> > > I got reminded of this watching my daughter write during a few days spent > mostly offline, when she didn't have TV or the net to distract her. > > Any stories the list can share about similar things happening during > enforced downtime? > > Udhay > > [1] > https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/silk-list/conversations/messages/3455 > > -- > > ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com)) >
