Month: June 2023
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Ovi Poetry Challenge2
HEART is your inspiration The Ovi are in general, lyrical folk songs expressing love, social irony, and heroic events.Ovi is a syllabic/metre poetry form. In this case, Ovi is from India, originating in the Marathi language. They are written in the following scheme. 4 line stanzas, as few as one stanza and up to as many as you like.…
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Everyday Moments (#SOL-2023)
28-06-2023 It has been raining since the 23rd. Yesterday it was pouring for three hours in the morning and at night too. The days are usually cloudy. Sometimes it only drizzles. People are happy that it is raining, a drizzle or pouring. Sunday evening, we went to see what was happening to our lake. It…
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#SoCS June 24, 2023
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “starts with ‘ab’.” Find a word that starts with “ab” and use it in your post. Enjoy! About to start out my husband stopped and stared at the sky. Dark clouds were floating slowly towards us. We were hoping it would rain and kept our fingers crossed.…
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Everyday Moments (#SOL-2023)
20-06-23 The rains have not started in earnest. It is scary. Our monsoon season usually begins in the first week of June. But we are getting very few rains this year. We depend so much on them. Early today morning there was a stillness in the air. It should have been raining. Today it rained…
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#SoCS June 17, 2023
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “sight/site.” Use one, use them both, use them any way you’d like. Bonus points if you use them both. Have fun! In 2011 my husband attended a conference in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. While reading about the place we came to know that Lothal, one of the Harrapan sites…
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Everyday Moments (#SOL-2023)
14-06-2023 We had very heavy rains on the 10th and 11th and were happy the monsoon season had started. The temperature too went down. But unfortunately, there has been very little rain after the first two days. People are of the opinion the rains on the first two days was the effect of the cyclone…
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#SoCS June 10, 2023
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “the last thing you filled.” Think about the last thing you filled or the contents you filled it with and use one or both of those things as your prompt. Enjoy! We use rock salt in our cooking. And I store it in a ceramic jar. It…
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Everyday Moments (#SOL-2023)
6-06-2023 In the village there was a very old mango tree in our field. Till about 25 years ago paddy was grown there. My father-in-law remembered the tree as always being there. Children through the years enjoyed the delicious fruits. They were wild mangoes which are small and cannot be sliced. We have to suck…
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#SoCS June 3, 2023
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “left alone.” Use it any way you’d like. Have fun! Yesterday we attended the Vaikunta Samaradhane of a neighbour. He passed away last week at the age of 90 on the 22nd of last month. Yesterday was the 13th day after his passing. His family invited friends…
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