A Foodie’s Plate: #WordlessWednesday
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” J.R.R. Tolkien
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” J.R.R. Tolkien
“The true essence of hygge is the pursuit of everyday happiness and it’s basically like a hug, just without the physical touch,” Meik Wiking, the author of The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets To Happy Living, and CEO of the Happiness Research Institute in Copenhagen
Whoever said a January would augur new beginnings, got their facts wrong. It wasn’t written in the stars that every January would come carrying with itself a bouquet full of roses, and leave us enchanted. Or was it? I wonder why we have this uncanny, set notion imprinted in our heads that a new year will portend all things good, positive and wonderful. Yes, I get that thing about a fresh new start, new beginnings on a brand new slate….
“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.” —Maya Angelou Memories of a Magical Mother: #WordlessWednesday A year just whizzed by. You made your onward journey to the other side of that magical rainbow not without challenges. It will precisely be a year, on Tuesday, 5 February, 2019. Here’s my little, heart-felt tribute, captured in just…
“Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.” – Daisaku Ikeda MY WORD OF THE YEAR AND ALL THAT JAZZ: You may wonder what’s taken me so long to come up with my Word of the Year (WOTY), while most of you are done and dusted (err not really, rather have begun to work) with…
FabCafe of FabIndia is an eclectic experience in vegan and all things organic and healthy. Catching the dappled sunlight in the cafe, on an autumn morning was the highlight of my day.
“Trees are earth’s endless efforts to speak to the listening heaven.” – Rabindranath Tagore Breaking Dawn: #ThursdayTreeLove On an early morning walk, last month in December, we stumbled upon this surreal tree, that stood out lazily; out-stretching its nimble limbs, embracing the dawn in a warm embrace. The view was priceless to say the least. The tree seemed to be subtly communicating with the heavens above, alluring us with its charm on that cold winter morning. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Linking up with the beautiful Tree Lady, Parul, for #ThursdayTreeLove
“Always take some of the play, fun, freedom and wonder of the weekend into your week & your work” ― Rasheed Ogunlaru Sunshine on my shoulder, a very dear friend Photo Credits: Aarshia, my ten-year-old Got invited for an impromptu lunch plan with the neighbourhood girls, just when the sun was sinking down on me. Oh! what a pick me up. Fun, banter, dancing with two-left-feet and some lip-smacking Punjabi food. Photo Credits: Aarshia, my ten-year-old…
“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn’t supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.” ― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor and Park
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. – Albert Camus