A Blog About Some Careless expressions from the memory lane
7th of March 2020, we returned from our first and probably the last (at least for a while) holiday trip of the year, and ever since then the dynamics of the world have changed. Had it not been for an overwhelming inflow of texts on a WhatsApp group, screaming for the need of hand sanitizers …
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At this point in time, the quarantine seems like an endless period of restrictions. The number of cases and lonely death rates still continue to rise and there could be nothing more depressing than to watch thousands of families mourn over the loss of their loved ones. Millions of people have lost their jobs and …
The Coronavirus pandemic has required millions of us to self-quarantine and while we are having to deal with such unpredictable tough times, there is still a silver lining that comes along with it. So is this juncture another blessing in disguise?
Sometimes in Tragedy, we find our Lives Purpose. ~ Robert Brault As Australia and many parts of the world still battle the relentless wildfires, this piece of art brought back so many memories. In November 2019, exactly one year after the most devastating campfire in California's history, Jessie Mercer, the 34-year-old art therapist …
It's 2020 and that marks a fresh new decade of huge possibilities. But as we accomplish milestones and take on with new ones, let's appreciate and reach out to those who couldn't. Also as we witness natural disasters and political upheavels in all corners of our world, let kindness and empathy make way for a much more meaningful decade to come.
It was like, we weren't having enough of all the stuff jolting and exhausting us every single day and then there was Anthony Bourdain, just a few days after Kate Spade, getting all the attention on the headlines, shocking his world of fans and followers that he'd built over the years. While I had not …
It is no secret how racism and being judged by the color of your skin is a frustrating issue like some skeleton has just walked out of the closet. I wouldn't say that this is new but it's just got so fueled and disappointingly, similar incidents are on the rise. Some talk about it and some …
It is when you're hitting rock bottom and have nowhere to go, no air to breathe and all you have is suffocation, it is then that you learn to swim, give that another last try ~ to take a leap of faith and rise to the surface. The surface that shows you the ray of light. …
Forgiveness is a BIG word and as easy it is to say and preach about, we all figure out at some point or the other how hard it is to practice in reality. And the irony is, there is a variety to it. We have genuine reasons and some those that are typically lame. Some that …
Its just been two days since officially Spring has been announced and since I am typically not a very Summer person this time of the year (along with Fall) is just so ideal and perfect to me and believe it to be the same for the 'most of ' all of us. For the starters, …
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It was one of those sad and depressing nights when I lay on my hostel bed uncertain and lost, searching for one single bleak of hope. Unseen tears drenched my cotton pillow covers and tired of the suffocation, I slipped into my dreams for that night and days that followed thereafter, was never the same anymore. …
It is not in the knowing alone, but also in the unknown, that allows us to harness our unseen potential and become a sign of the purpose of life. And such can be the manifestation of bliss! ♥ Image by: unsplash-logoGeorge Hiles
Always! There is this voice inside each of us, dormant or super active and somehow it has some of the best advice in store for us. It is completely up to us if we choose to Listen to it or sway it off based on a momentary thought that might just be an excuse blanketing …
Nope, I am no longer a teenager and I am somewhere glad about it and somewhere not. Let's talk about the glad part. Well for starters my teenage life was not all that merry, like how movies and tv commercials used to claim them to be. I am a millennial kid and for those of you who …
They say, "we are built from our situations at different phases of our lives," but the question that provokes me is, " are we becoming what we would like to see ourselves as?" Every time that we look into the mirror of our conscience and see the person we have become or are in the …
"You should start each day with a song in your heart, a gleam in your eye and peace in your soul " ~ Lucy Living your life is not all about calculated risks. Somethings will work and there will be some that won't. It's not always about 'how you want it to be' but mostly …
"I had been waiting long to open the door. And each time that my hand wanted to grab that knob and turn it around, I could feel my fingers go cold. Was it the doorknob after all or was it my self-doubt that confused my circulation and interfered with my years of nurtured self-confidence? I took …
"If you can't fly, then run, if you can't run, then walk, if you can't walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward. - Martin Luther King Jr Because there is no pride in dwelling on the past. Featured Image: Jit De
There are many typical questions that we were asked as kids. I don't know what they ask these days since I don't have much interaction with the gadget smarty little humans and nor do we still have one of our own, 'as yet'. I mean, we have Gibson (our crazy, foodie mutt) but we are …
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Day 8 of Navrtari ~ Goddess Mahagauri Hindus all over and in every corner of the world is spirited with festivity today, to rejoice the eighth incarnation of the gorgeous Hindu Goddess Durga. Ancient legends and mythology narrate fascinating stories of the Hindu Gods and Goddesses. For the 8th incarnation of Goddess Durga's, "Mahagauri" avatar, …
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Day 7 of Navratri ~ "Goddess Kaalratri" India celebrates the seventh day of the most awaited festival of the year, today. The seventh day of the Navratri is dedicated to the fiercest incarnation of Goddess Durga as " Goddess Kaalratri".Her dark complexion, bountiful hair, a shining necklace and four hands -two left hands holding a torch …
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Day 5 of Navratri ~ "Skandamata" "Skandamata" is the fifth avatar of Goddess Durga being celebrated during the rejoicing of Her nine nights of valor and love, in the form of Navratri. Evolving from the stages of Shailaputri (as a daughter), Brahmacharini (as a student, lover & worshiper), Chandraghanta (as a wife), Kushmanda (the creator), She …
Day 3 of Navratri ~ "Chandraghanta" This form of Goddess Durga is worshipped on the third day of the "Navratri"- the grand ceremony of worshiping the Goddess and the victory of good over evil, for 9 nights and 10 days. The "Chandraghanta" - meaning one who has the half moon shaped like a bell, is the …
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Day 2 Of Navratri ~ "Bramacharini" Followed by the Shailputri avatar, "Bramacharini" or the Goddess of Penance, defining the one whose goal is to discover self-existence and the Absolute Reality, is the second avatar of Goddess Durga. This form is worshiped on the second of the "Maha Navratri" (grandeur of the 9 nights and 10 days). Although, there is …
Day 1 Of Navratri ~ "Shailaputri" The most glamourous 9 days of the Indian festival is back, in all its spirit and excitement. The advent of the Autumnal or the "Sharad Navratri" has begun. Though "Navratri", the worship of the Lady Goddess of Power, "Durga" is religiously celebrated 5 times around the year at different …
I wish I could control so many things around me, make so many days look better and happier. The ones that are gone and the ones that may seem to have a chance of turning bad. But I am just a human and even if I want to, with all the cosmic power at my …
There is something so attractive about the whole idea of comfort.Be it a bean bag, a reclining couch, our favorite bed, our comfort food or simply the zone in which we are 'stuck.' Being comfortable in our own nutshell, however, is one of the safest zones we can choose to live. The comfort of a mindset that has …
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Honestly, in a materialistic jazzy world, we can never have enough of anything. We seem to have been brain-wired for 'more' and 'more' and in the pursuit of becoming someone else, have effortlessly transitioned into a mere consumer. Today, almost everything is available on the pulse of a click like never before. But still, we do not …
“It was dark and cold and it just did not seem right. The place was unknown and all the new smells distracted me. But I somehow did not experience excitement and my whole body was shaking with fear. I never knew fear all these days when I was under a roof with my humans around …
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"Whatever will be, will be.. the future's not ours to see.. Que Sera Sera" One of the most popular chart-busters of the 1950's by Doris Day, could not have been more evident as for today. I crisply remember this song being taught back in the cherished school days in our music lesson classes and our …
As a teenager, a thing like "Happy Women's Day" would mean no more than the greeting cards that flooded the stores, flowers being sold at the roundabouts and the TV commercials engaged in happy women propaganda's. And today, the scenario is pretty much still the same but I am with a different perspective of course. …
It is the popular month of February and not because it has the unusual 28 days or the rare 29 days stretch but more because the branding industry has genuinely endorsed this month as diligently as I would want to bake a cake. I mean, from the time I realized myself as a teen, the promotion …
Have you ever sensed the fear of looking back right into your own eyes? I am pretty sure to have come across this strange feeling many times and that is why, when I chanced upon this quote, it had to be part of my "Mindeology". We often remain unhappy and at the same time, sense satisfaction …
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With so much happening around lately or rather more of the things that happen to come to the surface over the recent times, I unwillingly feel, how strangely we are more united and divided in ways, now than ever. It is not that I wish to nag or complain when so much negativity surrounds us …
Okay! So finally I can declare myself as obsessed. But should I be proud of it or term it with its cousin syllable ~'crazy', I really have no clue? All that I know is while I am in the middle of the particular activity, I am so engrossed that the world around me practically doesn't …
This is indeed one popular phrase I heard growing up in India and being a proud Indian. There is so much still unknown to me about the rich heritage and golden mythological past of my country that I surrender not to defend this idea. And it would be also wrong on my part if I …
Interesting! Last Friday, as out on one of our Friday dine out events at an American Diner, we happened to be friends there with a lady aged with experience and insights and so much and more was just being casually discussed over a steaming cup of hot coffee getting cold. It is then when out of the many things, …
Believed to have appeared from the left side of Lord Shiva, Goddess Durga or Parvati attains her ninth embodiment in the form of "Siddhidatri", meaning the giver of supernatural powers. On the 9th and final day of the Navrati festival, the "Siddhidatri" form of the Goddess is worshiped in full spirit and enthusiasm. Being the …
Day 6 of Navrarti - "Katyayani Devi" It is on the 6th day of the Navratri festival - the grand celebration of the evolution of the Hindu Goddess Durga when the worship of "Goddess Katyayani" is observed. According to legends, She was born to a saint called Katyayana and thus was derived her name. The …
Day 4 of Navratri ~ "Kushmanda" The 4th day of the Navratri (the worship of power for 9 holy nights), praises the "Kushmanda" form, of the Hindu Goddess Durga. This name of "Kushmanda" is explained in scriptures and Vedic texts as- 'Ku' meaning a little, 'ushma' meaning warmth or energy and 'anda' referring to as …
When the craze for Autumn Fest has just begun across parts of this diverse world, it is also the beginning of the Festive Fever in India and for Indians all over , staring this 30th Sept. Yay! 🙂 It is 'Mahalaya' today and it is about invoking Mother Goddess Durga,the 'Goddess of power' from Heaven to Earth, …
That time of the year arrives again. Dried, crisp and rustic leaves begin to float in the air and like a surprise, the harshness of the summer sun begins to fade. The devoted mercury in the thermometers can now anticipate some sigh of relief from their routine rise and the transition is yet again a …
As tiny as this little fellow could be, did a Hummingbird ever know how much the world awes him? I guess not. It never needed to know what was the world around it, was thinking. All it did was, relentlessly flapped it's incredible tiny wings to and fro, kept itself above the ground, intrigued to …
18th September 2016; and I feel the breeze of a Sunday evening on my face, just as if it was for the first time in ages and indeed, it was. In the quest to chase boredom, temporary failed attempts for desired outcomes in most areas of my perceived aspirations of ambitious living, I landed up entertained with a couple …
Pic Source: https://unsplash.com/@leeroy As I logged into my computer this morning and opened the browser in search for new things that would interest me and divert my mind from my seemingly 'high aspirations' to find my way back through my career, I came across this picture and it startled me. I cannot explain well enough what …
I never had known before that I had inherited the gardening gene from my mother along with the passion of baking. But now that I have, I am having some hands-on experience with the exciting part of botany which seemed quite boring when I read it in school. For the past few months, I have …
It is typically strange how the mind works. It works in ways that we, ourselves are unaware of and yet we come to believe that everything is in our absolute control. Experiences of the past, that once seemed nothing but an unending trail of hurdles and some selective cherished moments, matures to become a lesson …
The leap of growth and success, is clearly the invaluable and cherished reflection of the enrichment of yourself, within you.♥
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