Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “growth.” Use it any way you’d like. Have fun! A Small seed In the earth Watered daily Its growth every day Happening underground Then one day forcing itself Coming out in search of sunlight With warmth and water the sapling grew And grew to become a beautiful… Continue reading #SoCS May 15, 2021
Author: Lakshmi Bhat
I am a person who believes there is not enough darkness in the world to extinguish the light of a small candle.
We live in a small place in South India. I love reading, blogging, stitching, traveling, photography, listening to people and many other things which make life so very nice and interesting. Blogging is a fun experience, it has brought me into contact with people in different parts of the world and it is good to read about their everyday life. In spite of the differences there is a sameness which is fascinating.
I have learnt and am learning something everyday. I have learnt to write haikus. I enjoy combining the thought and the number of syllables. I have always read books and I was happy to write short fiction. I had thought I would not be able to do so. Stream of Consciousness and photo challenges are fun too.
Yes, there is so much in life that is sad and that hurts us. Many a time I wonder why life is so unfair to so many. We all have problems in life but the problems of many seems unbearable. This makes me feel so helpless. It is not possible to help everyone but we can do our bit, we can do something to help some in whatever way we can. I go to the Home for the Mentally challenged in our campus twice a week. I have been going there since 2011. The members are an important part of my life. I did not go there in 2020. I started going in February but I have not been there for a month now because the number of Covid cases are increasing. There have been so many changes in our life, we will always remember the year 2020.
There have been many challenges in life and we have faced them with a positive approach. Our grandson and granddaughter have made life so much more richer.
Stillness
We are in partial lockdown till the 24th. We hear movement of some vehicles in the mornings. Then it is quiet. The stillness reminds me of last year. The same eerie stillness, unnatural and forced. Then there is the stillness due to the heat before the rains. The weather was very hot one evening last… Continue reading Stillness
Everyday Moments ( #SOL-2021)
11-05-2021 It is 11.30 in the morning and is quite cloudy. It may rain. This year we have started getting pre-monsoon rains. It is such a relief when it rains because the days are very hot. Humidity is very high here. It is also very quiet. We are having lockdown till the 24th. Shops are… Continue reading Everyday Moments ( #SOL-2021)
Eugi’s Weekly Prompt – Paradise – May 6, 2021
Gazing at the peaks At all hours of the day Paradise on earth Majestic Himalayas Inspiring and heart warming. The Himalayan peaks from our hotel room in McLeodGanj, last year.
Yet, there is hope…
A few weeks ago we read in the newspaper that about thousand acres of virgin forest in Swamimalai forest block in Sandur are going to be destroyed for the sake of mining of iron and manganese ore. The deputy conservator of forests warned of all the consequences of the destruction but the government has given… Continue reading Yet, there is hope…
Everyday Moments –(#SOL-2020)
4-04-2021 We are living last year again but fortunately not exactly like last year when there was complete lockdown. Reading about the increasing number of cases in different parts of our country is heart wrenching. There is so much suffering everywhere due to lack of oxygen. And the tragedy is that trees are being cut… Continue reading Everyday Moments –(#SOL-2020)
#SoCS May 1, 2021
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “may.” Use it any way you’d like. Have fun! One telephone call, and that opened the floodgates of memories to rise to the surface. Memories we thought we had forgotten. My mother and I re-lived the past and it was as if the events were happening in… Continue reading #SoCS May 1, 2021
Eugi’s Weekly Prompt – Flutter – April 29, 2021
Fluttering their wings Sunbirds fly from branch to branch Their beaks in flowers Sucking nectar joyfully Both living for each other.
Everyday Moments – (#SOL- 2021)
27-04-2021 The weather is different this year. We are getting pre-monsoon rains in April. Last year they started in May and the year before rains started only in July. Today afternoon it rained for more than an hour. There was wind too and we could see coconut fronds swaying to the beat 😊 From today… Continue reading Everyday Moments – (#SOL- 2021)
Eugi’s Weekly Prompt – Dance – April 22, 2021
Go where the prompt leads you and publish a post on your own blog that responds to the prompt. It can be any variation of the prompt and/or image. Please keep it family friendly. Swaying and dancing Coconut fronds high above. Graceful in motion.
