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Matter of Origin

In elementary school algebra we are taught about the X and Y axes and that their intersect is called 'The Origin'.  It is where two zeroes meet.  0,0.  Everything else is in relation to these two heroes.  You always want to be in the top right quadrant and not the bottom left.  Most management types you learn later in life build their whole careers on painting pictures based on this elementary concept when selling something. So it is with life.  You experience life as it happens on this planet and chart those experiences as being in one of the four quadrants.  I do.  Gives me something to do. So this trip to India was a good use case to chart I thought. For someone whose origins have shifted (me) in terms of life spent living equal parts in India (the first half) and post interval the second half in the self-proclaimed most powerful nation on earth (USA) which I dearly love, it was a difficult exercise to put each memo...