Everyday Moments(#SOL-2021)

29-06-2021 We are having a break from the rains. Last three days were sunny and today it did not rain at all. When it rains everyday we wonder when it will stop and when it does not rain we keep wondering why it is not  raining, human nature 😊. On the 23rd my mother celebrated…

#SoCS June 26, 2021

Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “up/down.” Use one, use them both, but try to put one in your first sentence. Bonus points if you use the other in your last sentence. Have fun! The slope behind our house had a well worn foot path and we used to see people walking up…

Eugi’s Weekly Prompt – Happiness – June 24, 2021

Outside our windowSunlight streaming through the leavesFlying flowers they lookedTwo butterflies swaying gracefully Sunlight streaming through the leavesBring light to usTwo butterflies swaying gracefullyAdd beauty and happiness to life. Dancing in pairsButterflies fluttering across flowersLooking like moving flowersNature’s perfection Butterflies fluttering across flowersSeems like a ritual danceNature’s perfectionOutside our window. The pantoum is a poem…

Everyday Moments(#SOL-2021)

22-06-2021 Since yesterday we are having a break from rains. It had been raining for nearly ten days. There are a lot of problems when the rains come but without them, we cannot imagine what could happen. Number of cororna cases are coming down but we are reading about Delta variant then about the third…

Contrasts

People have always fascinated me. They remind me of Miss Marple. Agatha Christie is one of my favourite authors 😊. She maintains that in spite of  differences, people are similar . One person resembles the next in some way or other. Many a time when we meet a person, it so happens that they remind…

A Photo a Week Challenge: Preparations

IN A NEW POST CREATED FOR THIS CHALLENGE, SHARE A PHOTO OR TWO (OR THREE…) OF PREPARATIONS. We have a jackfruit tree in our garden. Usually we get about twenty fruits. We use raw jackfruits in different dishes. The ripe ones are usually sweet and we make many some dishes with the arils and from…

Everyday Moments(#SOL- 2021)

14-06-2021 On the 14th evening it was raining heavily and we felt it was the right time to eat something fried. My mother cut the cabbage and I made pakodas. It was tasty. We were also feeling very relieved because we had lived two days without electricity 😃. It has been raining since 10th and…

#SoCS June 12, 2021

Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “drive.” Use it any way you’d like. Have fun! Recently I was reading a commentary on The Gita by Swami Ranganathananda. I wanted to see what was written about ego. I read that among animals only humans have ego. If any other animal had an ego, we…

Everyday Moments-(#SOL-2021)

8-06-2021 On the 3rd we read in the newspapers that Southwest monsoon had touched Kerala, the state to our south. We would get rains within a week. We were surprised when it rained heavily on the 3rd and 4th. How could we get the rains so soon? We learnt that it was due to a…

Birds around us.

The pantoum is a poem of any length, composed of four-line stanzas in which the second and fourth lines of each stanza serve as the first and third lines of the next stanza. The last line of a pantoum is often the same as the first. I read about this form of poetry in one…