A day just ended, a year began. And the year ushers in an era. Read the post shared with friends at midnight on 18-19th November, and celebrate an impending birth.
Farewell to 66 years of navigating this lifetime. I do believe each of these years, even the most troubled ones, was worth something significant. I will remember each one with unique and special emotions that I'll be writing or speaking about.
Welcome to another Tabula Rasa as I open the first page of Era 666.
Wish me luck so when I hit the vertical flip of 66 I'll look back and say yeah, this one was the game changer, so flip me again now 
The first words I write on the fresh page of course are Project Hearthfire. The hearthfire is essentially a heart-fire. Hearts come together to light it so hands can warm themselves on it, and their owners find nourishment from it. So here's the emblem for today - my warmest of warm hearts. Emerging through the fog. May all hearts fill with peace, may all hearts be healed as they heal.
Today a new baby is conceived and announced - Project Hearthfire's Healing Hub. It will take a village, indeed a city to bring it into the world. Details coming soon!
Happy Birthday to me and Happy Birth to this little wonder that I pray will grow into a beautiful and powerful place and space of nurture.
I am sharing a few words from my creative partner, film maker Ritwik Goswami, that offer context and background information on the wounds that have kindled this major step towards healing, on how the seed for the Healing Hub, just came to be sown without a warning. That seed had been forming wordlessly through the stress of the battle he describes and then at this liminal zone in space-time, announced its existence.
"Project Hearthfire : From Ritwik Goswami
Mayalakshmi Rao resides in the beating heart of the City of Joy; her residence a testament to a hundred year history of the evolution of the city all around.
Marked by stately high ceilings, robust walls and formidable beams, the apartment spells regal - much the same way as Mayalakshmi’s Royal being, her towering stature, astute words, her time-agnostic mane, and her kind eyes do.
And just like her apartment, that has stood its ground in what is now one of the most expensive areas of the city; against greedy promoters, or local goons; thereby asserting itself as a significant marker of the last century, in the rapidly evolving skyline and timeline of the city;
Mayalakshmi too has had to, and is still strongly fighting an ever-more vicious, perilous fight against her vile, diabolical neighbours, who have found the devices to keep challenging her very existence inside her own house, that she was born to, that she’s spent all her life in.
Maya’s life is a microcosmic allegory of the macrocosm represented by the house she resides in. And Project Hearthfire will be an aid to enable both to keep fighting with dignity."
Also don't forget to watch this
