Reunited

Sara was not due back here until this coming Monday morning, but she arrived this afternoon almost unannounced, by air (the road down from Leh to Manali being washed out). Took Satya and Violet to the airport to fetch her without telling them where or why we were going for a car ride. What a sweet surprise they got! And I must say I found her quite lovely. She did bring the dried apricots she said were wildly abundant up there – one tiny packet of them. How curiously do deep joy and trivial disappointment commingle in this world.

Tara could hardly believe her eyes when we got home, and hasn’t stopped jumping up and down.

Ajay