Perspective

We were sitting in the waiting room at the hospital. We got talking. She had come from a different part of our state. Her brother’s wife was being operated on. They had been there for nearly two weeks. She appeared to belong to a lower-income group. She told me that they had spent a lot…

The Daily Prompt: Yellow

There are a lot of yellow flowers blooming now. ” Sunny and cheerful Yellow flowers bring brightness Wherever they are. ” The Daily Prompt: Yellow

Spring Back ( Slice of Life)

A few months ago the land behind our home had been cleared of all vegetation. This land belongs to builders. The trees have been razed to the ground many times in the last few years. But these builders have not yet started building anything. It is the same story everywhere. In the name of development…

RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #133 #Flow&Tear

Acts of violence Killing people needlessly Why do these happen? Tears of innocent people Flowing heedlessly today. RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #133 #Flow&Tear

The Daily Post Photo Challenge : Graceful

For this week’s challenge, share something that says “graceful” to you: from a couple dancing a smooth tango or a skyscraper soaring with ease above the skyline, to a leaf that dropped just so atop a moss-covered rock. You can focus on people, animals, architecture, or objects — or go for an abstract shot where…

The small store (Slice of Life)

The small store; for our grocery, vegetables, fruits. Similar small shops for clothes or for shoes or for books and so many other things. They have  been an integral part of our life for so many years. Ours is a small place and we have been buying whatever we need from the same shops, across…

The Daily Post Discover challenge : Transcript

For this week’s challenge, we ask that you, too, take something ephemeral and non-digital and bring it to your blog for all of us to enjoy and reflect on. Of course, not all of us have access to a collection of century-old journals. So let’s define “transcribing” as broadly as possible: you could share an…

RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #132 Flame&Kiss

Shimmering gold flame Kissing the quiet waters Sun saying goodbye.   RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #132 Flame&Kiss

TIME

We are in the year 2017. Seventeen years have passed since we stepped into the 21st century. It had seemed as if we were stepping into a different world because we were moving into a new millennium. Life in the new ‘era’ was not all that different, but different enough to make it interesting. Ups…

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Old and New

This week the topic is Old and New.  You can have old and new objects in the same photo.  Or you can have at least one photo of a very old item and one photo of a very new item in your photo.  What I am looking for is great contrast.  Use your imagination if you want for this…