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Writer, fitness enthusiast, nature lover, home diva, spiritual Buddhist with a streak of crazy.
5 Lessons 2020 Has Taught Me: #TuesdayMotivation #MondayMusings

5 Lessons 2020 Has Taught Me: #TuesdayMotivation #MondayMusings

Lessons From 2020   “Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next. We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our data banks and dead ideas, our dead rivers and smoky skies behind us. Or we can walk through lightly, with little luggage, ready to imagine another…

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Gratitude Multiplies Good Fortune: #WordlessWednesday #WednesdayWisdom

Gratitude Multiplies Good Fortune: #WordlessWednesday #WednesdayWisdom

“Complaining erases good fortune while having a sense of appreciation increases good fortune. Rather than spew grievances, you should transform yourself. Then you will find the way forward!” Daisaku Ikeda, President, Soka Gakkai Buddhism

48 Things I’m Grateful For: #MondayBlogs

48 Things I’m Grateful For: #MondayBlogs

“The more grateful I am, the more beauty I see.” – Mary Davis

On Turning Four: #Blogiversary #BlogAnniversary #AmWriting

On Turning Four: #Blogiversary #BlogAnniversary #AmWriting

To Blog = To Share To Connect To Create To Inspire  

Birding Weekend: #WordlessWednesday #WednesdayWisdom

Birding Weekend: #WordlessWednesday #WednesdayWisdom

    “Sometimes I think that the point of birdwatching is not the actual seeing of the birds, but the cultivation of patience. Of course, each time we set out, there’s a certain amount of expectation we’ll see something, maybe even a species we’ve never seen before, and that it will fill us with light. But even if we don’t see anything remarkable – and sometimes that happens – we come home filled with light anyway.” ― Lynn Thomson, Birding…

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Covid Diwali: #WordlessWednesday #WednesdayWisdom

Covid Diwali: #WordlessWednesday #WednesdayWisdom

“We are all in this together. And we will get through this, together.” – Antonio Gutteres, Secretary General, United Nations   

Adieu Autumn Flowers: #WordlessWednesday #WednesdayWisdom

Adieu Autumn Flowers: #WordlessWednesday #WednesdayWisdom

  “Autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let go of things.” – Unknown  

Sound of Silence: #MondayMusings #MondayMotivation

Sound of Silence: #MondayMusings #MondayMotivation

“Listen to the silence. It has so much to say.”  – Rumi  In stillness, I found my silence. 

Remember?: #Fiction #FlashFiction

Remember?: #Fiction #FlashFiction

Remember that morning when the smog blotted the golden sun with its pall of gloom. When the vapours of your steaming hot cuppa faded into the oblivion. When the dwindling air quality in your urban dwelling blurred the destruction caused by Covid.   Remember that morning when the sweet autumn fragrance was replaced by a chemical stench. When the dazzling Silk Cotton blooms bowed their heads in utter dismay. When nature screamed a silent cry, admonishing humans for the aftermath…

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On a Silent Trail: #WordlessWednesday #WednesdayWisdom

On a Silent Trail: #WordlessWednesday #WednesdayWisdom

  On a Silent Trail: The Sanctuary Kenneth & Dorothy Stiffle “Non fatuum huc persecutus ignem”  Latin translation : “it is no will-o’-the-wisp that I have followed here.”