When your chips are down …
What inspired hope, for me #nature all the way.
When your chips are down …
Sorry for the double post. Was trying out the story feature on the WP app. Fairly interesting. Thank you everyone for the comforting messages. Check out the complete post below. 🤗 Love and light Natasha
Thankful Thursday
The last few days have been awry and gloomy. I’m so glad for this opportunity to count the blessings around me, Thanks Brian for this prompt. I’m thankful: 1. My father and in- laws are safe and sound in this long Covid lockdown. Though my in-laws did get Covid, and their recovery took time but they are fine. Can’t be more grateful for their enduring spirit. Touché, I’m thankful for my Father’s resilience, of staying alone and managing everything on…
Before I Die: WhatDoYouSee | Fiction
Before I Die Written as part of Sadje’s What Do You See? picture prompt. They sit outdoors, huddled in crooked rows; The octogenarians and septuagenarians. They have aged gracefully; The bitter-sweet embrace of a life well lived. One foot closing up on the grave and one smugly here; Some holding on to dear, precious life, Some impatiently waiting to kick the bucket into light.
Celebrating Thay – Thich Nhat Hanh: #WhatDoYouSee
What Did He See? – Celebrating Thay (Written as part of Sadje’s What Do You See? picture prompt.)
Balanced Flow: #WordOfTheYear | #WOTY2022
“Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river.” – Lao Tzu Balance (noun) – “Stability found at the centre of acceptance.”
5 Reasons Why You Should Blog : On Turning 5 | Blogiversary
“Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud.” – Andrew Sullivan
Chop Goes the Weasel – Hair Today Gone Tomorrow
“When a woman decides to cut off all her hair, she discovers something underneath that is liberating. It can be therapeutic because you let go of the idea that you need these superficial extras to feel beautiful.” – Emon Fowler It wasn’t a passing whim or a fleeting fancy I caught on to, when I chose to shave off my head on 11 October, this month.
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Sabr – Perseverance: #WordlessWednesday #WednesdayWisdom
Sabr (Arabic: صَبْرٌ, Perseverance or Persistence) These Bitter gourds (called karela in Hindi) were harvested on Monday morning. The planet continues to reels from the aftermath of the ongoing pandemic. While natures shows us how to constantly endure and bear the fruits of patience. The 12 year-old called these bitter gourds, Mango Karelas as they are actually shaped like raw mangoes. Ha! Ha! This little creeper endured a few storms, and now providing us its fruits of sabr/perseverance. Bitter,…