Within You: #WordlessWednesday #WednesdayWisdom #Pre-Barathon
“Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at anytime and be yourself” – Herman Hesse in Siddhartha
Save Our Environment: #WordlessWednesday #WorldEnvironmentDay2020
“Let’s take individual steps to save our environment. It’s the only one we have, and will ever have.” My Rant from 6th June, 2020: Here’s a little rant/or appeal I wrote in response to a blogger friend, Shilpa’s Facebook post, when the life of the elephant in Kerela was nipped away, along with it’s foetus. My heart goes out to all the elephants and also other species in the wild, and otherwise who are relentlessly tortured, traumatised and…
Garden Love: #ThursdayTreeLove
“”To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” – Audrey Hepburn
African Elephants | African Adventures: #WordlessWednesday #WednesdayWisdom
“There is no creature among all the Beasts of the world which hath so great and ample demonstration of the power and wisdom of almighty God as the Elephant.” ― Edward Topsell, The Historie of Foure-Footed Beastes The first herd of elephants we sighted at Tarangire, Tanzania. It was a moment of a lifetime Watching this massive herd at Serengeti was nothing short of mesmerising! “They say that somewhere in…
Wild Africa – African Adventures: #WordlessWednesday #WednesdayWisdom
“The beauty of Africa is not man made, it is natures gift to humanity.” ― Paul Oxton WILD AFRICA I’m so grateful to the universe that we managed to go on our African holiday, last year in October. Little did we know in a few months and in a blink of an eye, safe travel would become a distant dream. Tanzania is a wondrous country in…
Speeches with the Skies & Trees: #WordlessWednesday #WednesdayWisdom
“Trees do not preach learning and precepts. They preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.”― Herman Hesse “One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” ― William Shakespeare “Where flowers bloom so does hope.” – Lady Bird Johnson “Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.” ― Chad Sugg “Only from the heart can you touch the sky.” – Rumi “Trees are poems that…
Farm to Table: #WordlessWednesday #WednesdayWisdom
“Let things taste the way they are.” – Alice Waters, chef, author, and owner of Chez Panisse FARM TO TABLE We live in an apartment, but fortunately for us we have balconies and a terrace space that has given us the wonderful option to grow our own farm to table produce. Herbs like basil, mint, parsley, oregano and others like lettuce, kale, pak choy, celery, spinach, fenugreek, rocket leaves, tomatoes, lime etc. Especially when they are in…
Palacio do Deao, a Charming Mansion in Goa: #WordlessWednesday #WednesdayWisdom
“We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through, our purpose is to observe, learn, grow and love. And then we return home.” – Australian Aboriginal Proverb Palacio do Deao, a Charming Mansion in Goa I had the good fortune of travelling to Goa, February this year; just before Covid-19 reared its ugly head in India. These are a few snippets from Palaciao do Deao (Dean’s palace), an 18th…
Wilderness and Lockdown Skies – Part African Adventures: #WordlessWednesday
Wilderness and Lockdown Skies – Part African Adventures I re-visited Africa; East Africa to be precise while living a lockdown life. My city skies these days remind me of the skies in the African wilderness. A pure shade of azure and the air as crisp and clean as it could ever be. These are a few vignettes from Serengeti National Park, when we were there last…
Be Like a Tree: #ThursdayTreeLove #MondayMotivation
“Be like a tree. Stay grounded, keep growing and know when to let go.” tinybuddha.com It’s spring in our part of the world. While there is a riot of colours bedecking the outdoors, there are innumerable trees busy shedding and letting go. The new shoots are slowly but surely sprouting. These pictures where taken about two weeks back, before the lockdown. Now going on car drives is a distant dream, for sometime at least. Though the first picture…