“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
“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.
“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
“I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.” – Joyce Kilmer
“My sunshine doesn’t come from the skies. It comes from the love that’s in my dogs eyes.” – Author Unknown Cotton, Our Grand Old Lady: #WordlessWednesday Cotton came into our lives eleven years ago, from a dog shelter in Singapore. Ever since she has filled our lives with joy, hope and calm. The day she arrived at our home, we discovered we were having another baby. Who else, but Aarshia, our ten-year-old. Cotton is an impeccable old girl with lady-like grace….
Exploring the Magical Cango Caves: Esha M. Dutta For most visitors, an African safari is probably one of the main reasons for visiting South Africa. For us, though, it was those fascinating travel tales we’d been hearing from our friends in Mauritius, for well over fifteen years, that convinced us to realise our dreams. With the dawn of the New Year, our itchy feet chided us to pack our bags and leave. As soon as the school term ended in…
is blogging worth it? : Damyanti Biswas A huge thanks to Natasha for inviting me to her blog on the week she completes two years on Natasha Musing. Lately, a lot of bloggers have begun to feel a sense of hopelessness at the direction the blogiverse is taking: more paid posts, more reciprocal exchanges of comments and social media sharing, more appearance than reality, more conflict than community. I disagree.