Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Stairs, Steps, Ladders

This week’s topic is Stairs, Steps, Ladders.  The different ways humans have discovered to move up and down to get from one floor to one another.  Stairs, ladder, escalators help us out in so many ways.  Not everyone is a rock climber and these methods help us have a more convent life.  Have fun with this…

The Daily Post Photo Challenge : Narrow

This week, let’s keep things narrow (but not narrow-minded!): share a photo with your take on the theme. You could focus on a slender object, or shoot an image where your field of vision is restricted. Alleyways and half-open doors, seesaws and water slides, spaghetti and electric cords… the world is full of narrow things.…

The Daily Post Discover Challenge : Shared Journeys

For this week’s Discover challenge, tell us about one of your shared journeys. It could be an actual journey — a road trip with your friends, your honeymoon, a walk in the woods with your parents. But you might also choose a less physical journey, from adopting an animal with your partner to finishing a…

The Daily Prompt : Sanctuary

A house becomes a home When there is peace and harmony Within its four walls. It then become a sanctuary, A safe harbor, Against all odds Of the outside And the inside world. People living in that home Are individuals, With their own way of thinking. But there is understanding, There is space for everyone.…

The Daily Post Photo Challenge : Cherry on the top

This week, share an image of a finishing touch from your own life. Maybe it’s a photo of the blooming rose bush that’s the centerpiece of your garden, or a shot of the sunset that was a perfect end to a wonderful day. Perhaps it’s a snapshot of the glowing grin on your daughter’s face after she achieves a…

The Daily Prompt : Clock

The hands of the clock Keep moving on, Reminding us of the words, ‘Time and tide wait for none’. Some look at the clock And say there is no time, To do all that we want to do. Others say what to do with time? What do we do to pass time? That is a…

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Tracks – trains, rail tracks, etc.

This week’s topic is Tracks – trains, rail tracks anything to do with tracks The Railway station in Kannur. Not far from our home. ( During the monsoons the tree on the right has been covered by a creeper and looks like a mammoth:) ) In London . Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Tracks – trains, rail tracks,…

The Daily Post Discover Challenge: The Things that we leave behind

This week, create a post about something you’ve left behind. What is your existence like without it? What is its existence like without you? What does revisiting it make you feel? What does the future hold for it? Will you ever look back at it again? These words took me back in time to those days that we…

Mirror mirror…

Mirror mirror… I am reading this very interesting book by Jorge Luis Borges called ‘On Writing’. It is a collection of his essays. I loved these lines from the essay, ‘Ultra Manifesto’, “Two aesthetics exist: the passive aesthetic of mirrors and the active aesthetic of prisms. Guided by the former, art turns into a copy…

The Daily Prompt : Unpredictable

Human beings are so different And in many ways so similar. One reminds us of another, And their way of functioning Seems predictable. But there is the unpredictable Which makes each individual Different from the other. It is the unpredictable Which surprises us And keeps on surprising us. It is the unpredictable That leads to…