Life
Ms May. Wodehouse. And a melancholy cup.
As I wait for a friend and sip my excellent coffee at this ...
Ageing
Honest question.
I am constantly told to behave age appropriately. And now, I have started ...
Fun
Baba & baby bear’s day out.
Writing a story together, and then, giggling, dancing, and listening to loud music ...
Empathy
Social media. Icebergs. Elephants. And nuclear bombs.
I realise that the haste in which we bestow the status of a ...
Question
A relaxing pedicure? My foot.
My ex-wife very kindly gifts me a pedicure, and I have a ball, ...
India
Bharat Jodo Yatra: My journey.
A journal chronicling my journey to and participation in the Bharat Jodo Yatra, ...
Parenting
Preparing Baby bear for camp.
We prepare Kymaia for her horse-riding camp, which will be a week away ...
Morality
Monogamy. And cheating.
I lay down my logic about adultery and who exactly may be blamed ...
History
My independence day radio interview.
A historian cancelled an interview on the local radio, and I was pulled ...
Conversation
Baby bear’s sex education.
Little Kymaia reads Yuval Noah Harari's 'Sapiens' and gets stuck at the classification ...
Life
Total Perspective Vortex. And clouds that look like Peppa.
We discover perspective and context from the latest images sent back by a ...
Parenting
The conversation.
Baba bear and Baby bear speak of relationships, choice, divorce, and how air ...
Grief
The more I learn, the less I want to know.
Life is, it would seem, not only far more tragic than you imagine, ...
![Mr Baba: 'Would you like to take off the backpack now that you've been downstairs for like 30 minutes?'
Ms Kym-Kym: 'I like it like this. You should try it. It's very comfortable.'
Mr Baba: [Pulling on his backpack] 'Hmmm, you're right. That's rather snug.'
Ms Kym-Kym: 'Twinning! Yay!'
#LuckiestManAlive #BearFamily](https://scontent-lax3-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/416920031_3373151642830342_6696851954454537274_n.webp?stp=dst-jpg&_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=18de74&_nc_ohc=ZMLmjPdSAEUAX8nnJex&_nc_ht=scontent-lax3-1.cdninstagram.com&edm=ANo9K5cEAAAA&oh=00_AfB0olvUVmnenPKd2wCllMDehg5gzDgAbc4BDsGLqIm6pA&oe=65BA4561)
![Kym: 'Mr Baba, can I tell you something wierd? You can actually get tired from doing nothing!!'
Me: 'It is called boredom.'
Kym: 'Noooo. I mean, like physically tired.'
Me: 'One can get tired and sleepy due to boredom. I remember reading about it somewhere. Let's find out.'
[Some Googling later]
Me: 'It says here that "A new paper published in the journal Nature Communications finds that a part of the brain that is associated with motivation and pleasure - the nucleus accumbens - also can produce sleep. The new findings may explain why we have the tendency to fall asleep in the absence of motivating stimuli, i.e., when bored." Isnt it interesting?'
Kym: 'I already knew that. Why do you need to research things we already know?'
Me: [Finding a subject worth talking about now]: ' Ah well, that's what we'll talk of tomorrow on your morning run. It's very interesting the way science is done and our understanding of the universe is expanded.'
Kym: 'Can we talk of unicorns instead?'
Me: 'Sure. How do you know they exist? That's an interesting question too that you can use the scientific method to answer.'
Kym: 'Do they have to exist for us to talk about them? We can just pretend they do for an hour and have fun.'
Me: [Laughing] 'Yes, sure. We can do that too.'
#BabaBabyConversations #BearFamily #KymAndI](https://scontent-lax3-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/416410840_383105434396466_2267910263456009774_n.webp?stp=dst-jpg&_nc_cat=104&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=18de74&_nc_ohc=LIozs445JFcAX_48wGC&_nc_ht=scontent-lax3-1.cdninstagram.com&edm=ANo9K5cEAAAA&oh=00_AfDQ2qbb0yO_wUmLj_L0ZxF61eDdwlIN-vyrd8GZe_pBMQ&oe=65BAFA57)
