Why Be Kind? | Kindness | Word of the Year
“I have found that it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folks that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love” – J.R.R Tolkien, in his acclaimed book The Hobbit.
The Long Weekend – Getaway – Part I
“Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.” Bill Watterson
6 Months of Balanced Flow: Word of the Year 2022
“I am rooted, but I flow.” – Virginia Woolf Six Months of “Balanced Flow”
Balanced Flow: #WordOfTheYear | #WOTY2022
“Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river.” – Lao Tzu Balance (noun) – “Stability found at the centre of acceptance.”
5 Reasons Why You Should Blog : On Turning 5 | Blogiversary
“Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud.” – Andrew Sullivan
I am This. I am: #Poem #Poetry
Hello my dear Amigos in blogsphere! Sorry I have been awol. I just have been taking time to be. I had no choice but to return today, as my blogiversary is around the corner. Yes, we turn 5 on 6th December. But, having said that; yes, I have missed not being in my cosy den too! Watch out for this space for a quiet celebratory post this time, just by me.
Good News: #WordlessWednesday #WednesdayWisdom
Ann Frank’s story is such a wonderful reminder in these tough times, to hold on to hope. To believe in the goodness within us and that of one another. The world is going through tough, turbulent times. There is mass unrest, lives being lost, political friction, pandemic woes, mental health issues on a rise, devastations and despair. Yet there are instances of hope. And today I choose to share a few hopeful instances that have added meaning to…
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…
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…
Love in the times of Corona: #WordlessWednesday #WednesdayWisdom #YeahWriteNonFiction
Redefining Love in the times of corona The other day I was on Twitter after a longish hiatus. I was thoroughly amused by this tweet by @sarahfarooqui20 Here’s what she said: “Some one should write Love in the Times of Corona. A poignant tale of love and longing in a masked world, embittered with social distance.” Most of us have read or heard of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s masterpiece, “Love in the times of Cholera.” Inspired by Sarah Farooqui’s quote I…