Anushka's first travel trip

The day is July 5, 2012. Today you left for New York after a quick at-home anniversary+advance birthday party.
Anushka, your mom is really amazing, because of the way she kept her cool in the last few day of leaving. I know, because I noticed myself saying many provocative things to her for which she would normally take up cudgels. It shows how she can and does keep the bigger picture in mind
You spoke to me on the phone from the Denver airport, from where you were to take the connecting flight to New York. You were missing me very much. And you were in tears even later when you spoke to me from New York. How I wish you weren't! I tried telling you to just let go and make the best of the trip and try enjoy yourself
Later I got involved watching a movie and never thought much until 2 hours later. Then I was hit by the pangs of separation. I knew then exactly how your felt. Both me and your mom hope that you will be OK once you go to Mysore. This will be your first time in Mysore, the memory of which you are likely to carry. Hope it turns out well. Maybe you will recall a bit from the last time, or maybe not. But if you do, or to the extent you do, you will experience perhaps your first major change of perspective, looking at the same things from a baby's view and then a child's.

And so concludeth this note on the diary.