This #wordlesswednesday, thanks to my older poppet, I got a bunch of quotes from Pinterest to share. Never done this before here. Well, I’ve been having a bit of a health hiccup and I was not sure if I was up to posting at all. But she graciously volunteered to help out. So thankful to you, Arusha Sinha. 🙂 Arusha wanted me to use the “Teach Peace” quote, but all of them…
Families enjoy spending time with each other, at the Grand Hotel. It’s a perfect staycation when the melt down takes a toll. An excuse to break away from the madness of the city. Or one such thing. The blast is earth shattering. Maligned bodies lie strewn in the rubble. The grandeur razed to ground in just seconds. The rain pelts down like atomic bombs. Nature has unleashed it’s fury. Don’t go exploiting me anymore. That evening the sun appears,…
“”To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” – Audrey Hepburn
“There is no creature among all the Beasts of the world which hath so great and ample demonstration of the power and wisdom of almighty God as the Elephant.” ― Edward Topsell, The Historie of Foure-Footed Beastes The first herd of elephants we sighted at Tarangire, Tanzania. It was a moment of a lifetime Watching this massive herd at Serengeti was nothing short of mesmerising! “They say that somewhere in…
The stage is on fire, as Jackson Maine belts one score after another. The audience is cheering non-stop, gyrating to the glorious moments. The atmosphere is phenomenally charged. Ally is nervous as hell. It’s her first performance ever, to a packed audience of over ten-thousand. Never in her wildest dreams had she thought a chance meeting with Jackson would land her centerstage. Real time. It’s Ally’s turn to go now. She and Jackson step up the…
“The beauty of Africa is not man made, it is natures gift to humanity.” ― Paul Oxton WILD AFRICA I’m so grateful to the universe that we managed to go on our African holiday, last year in October. Little did we know in a few months and in a blink of an eye, safe travel would become a distant dream. Tanzania is a wondrous country in…
The beaches are bustling. It’s business as usual. They were shut for two long years, as the pandemic continued to wreck havoc. Things have begun to ease out. People have slowly, but surely mustered the courage to travel and visit public places. The masks are still intact, not so much the social distancing! The crowds thronging the flea market look radiant. They have survived the onslaught of the virus. While in quarantine they managed to don multiple hats – baker…
“Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through is now like something from the distant past. We’re so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past are no longer in orbit around our minds. There are just too many things we have to think about everyday, too many new things we have to learn. But still, no matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the…
“Because I feel that, in the Heavens above / The angels, whispering to one another, / Can find, among their burning terms of love / None so devotional as that of ‘Mother’” Edgar Allen Poe My mother, Ma, as I’ve aways called her frolics somewhere across the rainbow. In a world which is free of pain and pandemics. Two years back she made her onward journey, transcending the anguish and struggles the Big C had entrusted upon her. But she…
“Trees do not preach learning and precepts. They preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.”― Herman Hesse “One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” ― William Shakespeare “Where flowers bloom so does hope.” – Lady Bird Johnson “Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.” ― Chad Sugg “Only from the heart can you touch the sky.” – Rumi “Trees are poems that…