When a project at work is about to end, we go looking for another one. To be fair, someone else goes looking for us, and then we comply, or as it happens in most cases, we don't. The phase when this transition occurs is one of the most itchy phases, for me, as I have... Continue Reading →
In Conflict
I'm full of half-written poems hidden inside me which tremble at the sight of day; but they cast soft glows inside me when he warms me up and the glitter from my eyes trickles deep within me and stays there for days adding words to staggered verses I write for him, staying incomplete and inert and still refusing... Continue Reading →
How?
Then Pecola asked a question that had never entered my mind. "How do you do that? I mean, how do you get somebody to love you?" But Frieda was asleep. And I didn't know. - The Bluest Eye; Toni Morrison
Heartbreaker
Disclaimer: This post is a vent. It might not hold true in the morning. Well, some of it at least. There is simply no other way to put this: an unexplained sadness has seized me. What about? Desertion, of some kind. Although, I don't know what it really is, here are a few assumptions. 1.... Continue Reading →
On Reading Quick
The book being The Silver Linings Playbook. In an extraordinary turn of events, the trailer of the movie made me pick up the book. More so because I cannot watch the movie during Ramzan but I can read a book. Teehee. :D amarllyis 1; Movie Abstinence 0. Must say that it's a swift, wonderfully written debut novel.... Continue Reading →
On Reading Winman
Recently, I finished reading When God was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman. That she was an actress too, was something that we found out when we featured a quote from the book on Boohkad's 100 Quotes from 100 Books. That the first half was thoroughly engaging was expressed in my Sprinkled Sentiments post. That I... Continue Reading →
Vaporization
I have a persistent feeling that something which weighed down my world was lifted last night as I lay asleep. In some inexplicable way, it was unlocked, unchained, and let free such that it welled up, watched me sleep, and then determinedly disappeared into the space above this planet. My heart felt free this morning. Daybreak was... Continue Reading →
Sprinkled Sentiments #14
If you have been reading this blog for a long time and you don't know what this is, well...umm...ahem! If you've newly stumbled here, this is my random list of 25 things that I write whenever I feel like it. 350. On my way back home, a recurring thought propped up in my mind -... Continue Reading →
What I brought back from the recent excursion... Hover over the image to control the speed of the slide show.
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