To invaluable friendship.

Dark, scrawny, awkward, timid — aren’t characteristics that make for a lasting first impression, of this lad that I chanced to meet a few days into college. Yet, I was drawn by an aura of intrigue, to this boy — from Aundipatty a village in Tamil Nadu whose acquaintance gained…

Siren Of The Arabian Sea

Every hour, she opens the door-(19°04′22″ N, 72°52′57″ E)

To them who come with dreams.

Some do keep up with her ever-changing pace,

While some are left panting and breathless on the floor.

Thank you to a place

My nights with family go well when I pick flowers from our terrace plants first thing in the morning. Mother likes to…

Thank you to things

It is customary to thank people not things. After all, what does it matter if one doesn’t extend gratitude to the inanimate, not that they feel anything! But if gratitude is about how being grateful helps one’s own state of being then it shouldn’t matter that things won’t respond with a…

Aha! Just what I was thinking about the whole day!

Waking up late today morning and rushing to the Amethyst Cafe to meet my SNU friends, the whole morning was fun. From there, I directly went to my relatives house to attend a family function scheduled tomorrow. I desperately wanted to continue the DRG writing streak but the…

Gratitude 1

Colors

The Frangipanis have stopped blooming. My stone urn was empty for a while. Then I noticed them. Bright yellow and calling out to me. Don’t know what they are called. And then another bush of candy-floss pink, and a few of them sitting proudly on the ground. The pastel yellow-white hues in my urn are now a riot of colors. Some go, others come. No vacuum in nature. Or in life.

A beautiful soul makes me not guilty

As I sit down to write today’s gratitude note, I sheepishly look at an empty ice cream bowl next to me. Yes, I broke my New Year’s resolution already.

But I am not even guilty.