#SoCS Aug. 20, 2022

Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “key.” Use it as a noun, a verb, or use it metaphorically. Have fun!The Keys of the Kingdom by A J Cronin was one of my favourite books. I must have read it two or three times. On seeing today’s prompt, I feel like reading it once…

Day 12 of the March SOLSC! #SOL2022

Quite some time ago I read somewhere that people who say they have only one life to live, do not read books 😊. It is true. Good books take us to different worlds inhabited by all types of people. While reading a book we are in that world, with people living their lives there. I…

Day 8 of the March SOLSC! #SOL2022

I have known Ramesh for many years. He is a special educator. A few years ago, he and some of his friends got together and started an organization. Such organisations are called ‘Trusts’. Ramesh and his team named their Trust, Adithya Trust. They are working at the grass root level to help very poor people…

#SoCS Aug. 14, 2021

Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “luck.” Use it any way you’d like. Enjoy! “Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few…

#SoCS Aug. 7, 2021

Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “wee.” Use the word “wee” or find a word that contains it and use it in your post. Have fun! This week something strange happened. I have no explanation for it. My cousin posted a photo of a sunflower with a goldfinch sitting on the top in…

#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…

#SoCS 2021 Daily Prompt – Jan. 16th

Your prompt for #JusJoJan and Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: “first thing.” Start your post with the words, “first thing” and go from there. Bonus points if you end your post with the last thing. Have fun! ‘First things first’ I tell myself as I go about my morning routine. I like to finish them…

Everyday Moments (#SOL- 2020)

27-10-2020 Vijayadashami was celebrated across our country yesterday. It marks the end of Navaratri festival. We usually  go to temples of Goddess Durga during these days. But this year we went only once early in the evening and it was not crowded. Many people celebrate at home. One of the customs is to keep dolls…

#SoCS Oct. 3/2020

 Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “new/old.” Use either or both of the words “new and old” any way you’d like. Bonus points for starting and ending with either one. Have fun! Books are an important and nice part of my life. I do not remember when I have not read books.…

#SoCS Aug. 1/2020

 Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “more.” Start your post with the word “more.” Enjoy! More than anything else I think people all over the world would want coronavirus to just vanish from the face of the earth😊. It would have happened in a movie or in a novel but it does…