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Wordy Wednesday# 4 – Tattered

Wordy Wednesday# 4 – Tattered

  this week’s picture prompt Wordy Wednesday 4 #barwowe Basic guidelines: Use the prompt in your posts. Write a minimum of 100 words on the prompt. Tattered   Jude lived in a well turned out home with his beautiful family of four. Life had been good to him. He had worked his way to provide his family with the much-needed, non-negotiable comforts. He had started off as a Fireman, and because of his sheer grit, determination, and diligence; he had…

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7 Things About Nature that Makes You Thankful #ThankfulThursdays

7 Things About Nature that Makes You Thankful #ThankfulThursdays

Post Alert: Slightly longish post. My love for nature had me pouring out to my heart’s content. But I do promise, that you will not regret reading this piece.   I pen these words sitting in the luxurious lap of nature. We are blessed to be living in a condominium which has sprawling lush lawns surrounded by Frangipani, Gulmohar, Palms, Malti creepers, Hibiscus, Jasmine bushes; and so many others. Every winter the landscape morphs into radiant hues, as the ice…

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10 Day “You” Challenge: One Picture of Yourself

10 Day “You” Challenge: One Picture of Yourself

#ALLABOUTME #BLOGCHALLENGE #10DAYYOUCHALLENGE The final day of the Challenge. This picture aptly describes me. My lust for adventure, my quest for happiness and living each moment to the hilt. This adventure is just the tip of the iceberg. There are many more that will follow.     Mayuri http://sirimiri.in This has been such a fun write-thon. Thanks to your impetus and guidance, I’m back to writing sincerely after almost 14 years. Much Gratitude.

Wordy Wednesday # 3 – Early Riser

Wordy Wednesday # 3 – Early Riser

This Week: Sentence Prompts Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder. – Nikita Khrushchev Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet. – Henry David Thoreau Basic guidelines: Use the prompt in your posts. Write a minimum of 100 words on the prompt. 4:45 AM. Freddie Mercury was crooning “I want to Ride my Bicycle”. The enticing, green locales of Aravalis awaited…

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#FridayFotoFiction: #Week8 -“Barren”

#FridayFotoFiction: #Week8 -“Barren”

#FridayFotoFiction: #Week8 BARREN A vacuous air of silence had enveloped Deerwood drive. The benches were lying barren. Not a bird in sight, let alone people. A disaster had befallen upon this lovely clearing. A bunch of cold hearted miscreants had ruthlessly massacred the visitors of this park-octogenarians, children, lovers, joggers, dogs and their walkers and many others. This ironically happened on a bright, sunny day. Now all that remained was a crestfallen, silent and deserted Autumn patch. No gleeful children,…

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10 Day “You” Challenge: 3 Films

10 Day “You” Challenge: 3 Films

  #ALLABOUTME #BLOGCHALLENGE #10DAYYOUCHALLENGE 3 Films This is surely another big challenge to just name 3 favourite films, as the list again is endless. Tough call, but I’ll try to do justices to it. Music & Lyrics: Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore sure did a brilliant job of transporting us into the world of love, romance, comedy, and music with their wonderful renditions and powerful acting. It was a very endearing watch and I have seen it several times and…

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10 Day “You” Challenge: 4 Books

10 Day “You” Challenge: 4 Books

#ALLABOUTME #BLOGCHALLENGE #10DAYYOUCHALLENGE 4 BOOKS The Prophet-Khalil Gibran. This has been my bedside bible for years and years now. I can keep re-visiting this awe-inspiring piece of writing over and over again and learn so much each time. The lessons are a reminder of each aspect of life, be it marriage, love, children, pain, friendship, sorrow and so on so forth. I never cease to stop learning from this incredible book by the Khalil Gibran who died so young, yet…

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Wordy Wednesday # 2 : Back To Basics

Wordy Wednesday # 2 : Back To Basics

This week: phrase prompt Badge of Honour Back to Basics Between a rock and a hard place Born with a silver spoon Use the prompt in your posts. Write a minimum of 100 words on the prompt. She clinked her champagne glass against his and looked at him seductively through her kohl rimmed, smokey eyes. Her tall frame clad in stilettos and a slinky, black shimmery dress towered over his short frame. He was her muse; or was she his?…

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#FridayFotoFiction: Arrive

#FridayFotoFiction: Arrive

  #FridayFotoFiction Arrive The Winter chills were yet to arrive, as Autumn had long extended it’s stay. Long walks with Layika, as the weather romanticised with all and sundry, formed an integral part of her morning ritual. Today the alarm didn’t go off. She had scrambled out of bed, quickly changed and rushed out with Lyaika on the leash, and in a jiffy left the keys hanging outside. As she walked out of her doorsteps inhaling the fragrant morning air, while Lyaika sniffed the dew drizzled grass, a…

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