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Three Gifts I Received From the April #AtoZChallenge: Reflections #AtoZChallenge2018

Three Gifts I Received From the April #AtoZChallenge: Reflections #AtoZChallenge2018

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Three Gifts I RECEiVed FROM the april #atoZchallenge This was my second attempt at the month-long, A-Z Challenge and I am so very glad I dived into it headlong, despite the initial hiccups and apprehensions. My posts weren’t scheduled in advance. Till the time of the deadline of the Theme Reveal, I was unsure, whether I wanted to participate or not. Thanks to a variety of discussions with my fellow bloggers at Write Tribe and gentle nudges with clarity and direction from blogger…

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{Z} is for Zen Thoughts: #AtoZChallenge

{Z} is for Zen Thoughts: #AtoZChallenge

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{Z} is for Zen THOUGHTs Do you carry zen thoughts or zen people in your life? I am fortunate to be surrounded by quite a few zen beings. Isn’t that one-of-it’s kind blessing to have? Therefore, zen thoughts come blowing my way more often than not. Sometimes in the form of a statement here and a statement there, an act of kindness, a sign knocking at my door, or an answer “blowing in the wind”, as our dear Bob Dylan…

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{Y} is for You Fill Up My Senses: #AtoZChallenge

{Y} is for You Fill Up My Senses: #AtoZChallenge

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{Y} is FOR You FILL UP MY SENSES It’s Saturday morning and Homi Mistry is wooing Freni with, “You fill up my senses“. Freni is giggling with gay abandon. They have been married for sixty-five  years now. Mistrys are residents of the Dadar Parsi colony. April, every year, they wait with much anticipation for their grandchildren to troop in to their humble home. The children spend a few weeks of their summer vacations with the Mistrys. The children are arriving today….

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{X} is for Xenia, The Flower Girl: #AtoZChallenge

{X} is for Xenia, The Flower Girl: #AtoZChallenge

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{X} is for Xenia, The Flower Girl Xenia, the flower girl lives on a hillock, by the lush, bountiful Swiss countryside with her family; a hard-working husband, Zeus and two-year-old twins, Daisy and Daffodil. Her home is brimming with hospitality. Every weary traveller or passer-by is welcome, to stop by for a simple, warm meal, cooked with love by Xenia. Xenia is known as the flower girl of the village, as she runs a flower stall. In today’s modern language she is…

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{W} is for We Are the World: #AtoZChallenge

{W} is for We Are the World: #AtoZChallenge

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{W} is for We Are the World “In 1985, the music industry and the world came together in an unprecedented outpouring of generosity in response to the tragic famine wreaking havoc in Africa at the time. The biggest names in music ‘checked their egos at the door’ to create what was and still is a worldwide phenomenon. The recording of the original, We Are The World sold more than 7 million records worldwide. The worldwide sale of that record generated…

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{U} is for Uplifting Our Energy: #AtoZChallenge

{U} is for Uplifting Our Energy: #AtoZChallenge

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{U} is for Uplifting Our Energy “Everything is energy and that is all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics.” ~ Albert Einstein* Here’s an interesting April anecdote that has been instrumental in uplifting my energy. I had the good fortune of attending and hosting a Personal Energy Management workshop conducted by my dear…

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{T} is for Thankful for Your Tender Love: #AtoZChallenge

{T} is for Thankful for Your Tender Love: #AtoZChallenge

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{T} is for Thankful for your tender love Ma, this one’s dedicated to you, and your tender love, that I will always be thankful for. You’ve been gone exactly two months, seventeen days. We are ready to wrap up April 2018. Time and tide like they say, wait for none. And as I wistfully look back on our years together, all I want to tell you is how thankful I am for your tender love.

{S} is for Signs: #AtoZChallenge

{S} is for Signs: #AtoZChallenge

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{S} is for Signs “All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready, and if you can read the signs, you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step”  ~ Paulo Coelho, The Zahir Do you watch for the signs strewn across your path? Every day the universe communicates  to us in different languages, through different people or sources, like nature, a song on the radio, a line…

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{R} is for Reminiscing the Yesteryears: #AtoZChallenge

{R} is for Reminiscing the Yesteryears: #AtoZChallenge

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{R} is for Reminiscing the Yesteryears Peals of laughter echo through our fifteenth floor apartment. The kids are building a tent-house that they call a hotel room, with the dining chairs, cushions and bed sheets as props. We are sprawled on the bed reminiscing our yesteryears. Those good old days when we hung out as one big family, made merry, had endless conversations that spilled into the wee hours of the morning, over copious glasses of wine or gin tonic….

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{Q} is for Queer and Quirky: #AtoZChallenge

{Q} is for Queer and Quirky: #AtoZChallenge

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{Q} is for Queer and Quirky Radcliffe is born on the Easter of April 1995, to staunch Catholic parents, in Manila. His hazel eyes, dark curly mane and rosey lips has people marvelling and confusing the little cherub for a girl. His orthodox parents find this very queer and quirky. Radcliffe goes to mass every Sunday with his parents. Unlike his peers who play with cars and aeroplanes, Rady has a penchant for Barbie dolls. Mommy doesn’t know, as he…

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