I started this blog back in 2006, I liked the idea of having an online diary. Looking back now on those initial posts.... memories flood my being, working in a special school with amazing children were some of the best days of me life, the surreal choir practices under the blue skies with the colony girls who have become my lifelines now, and all the little happenings in a village at the tip of the Indian Peninsular. Okay, there's no point in being nostalgic now... all that is still going to remain on the blog but in another space. Yeah, I have a new website http://xavierkaren.com/ Do drop by and say Hi...
The title is a line from The Chosen , a TV series about Jesus and his disciples, that has taken me by surprise. Many portrayals of Jesus depict him as a solemn man who walked around preaching and talking to his nondescript bunch of disciples. You couldn't tell one from the other, only Jesus stood out from the rest of the characters and everything else was pretty standard story telling from the bible. But The Chosen is a world far away from the one we've usually seen or heard about Christ. For starters the disciples are wonderfully fleshed out; the impulsive and brash Simon, his dashing brother Andrew, the delightfully odd Mathew who has Asperger's Syndrome, the open minded Nicodemus who really wants to know more about what cannot be explained or understood. And Jesus, just one look at him and you can feel the warmth in his gentle eyes touching you. There's so much depth to the characters that now when anyone talks about Simon or Mathew, the actors who play them pop into