#SoCS Nov. 26, 2022

Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “on your/my plate.” Use it any way you’d like. Have fun! Navaratri festival was observed in October. Goddess Durga is worshipped for nine days. There are many temples to the Goddess in and around our town. We decided to go to some of them and offer our…

#SoCS Oct. 1,2022

Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “me.” Find a word that starts with “me” or use the word “me” as the theme of your post. Have fun! Memories are strange and fascinating. We tend to remember what we should forget and forget so many details in life which would have been nice to…

#SoCS Sept. 24, 2022

Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “home.” Use it as a noun, a verb, an adjective, or an adverb. Enjoy! I am reading two fascinating books about the past. One is The Ivory Throne: Chronicles of the House of Travancore by Manu S Pillai and the other is To The Letter-A celebration of…

#SoCS Sept. 3, 2022

Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “start with why.” Begin your post with the word “why.” Have fun! Why is it that we always remember some people or incidents and forget many other details? And two people involved in the same incident have different memories later on. I asked myself the question when…

SoCS Aug. 27, 2022

Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “board/bored.” Use one, or use them both for bonus points. Enjoy! Some years ago, my mother told me about a board game her grandmother loved to play. On reading Linda’s prompt, I asked my mother about it. She remembered and narrated to me her memories. My mother…

#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…

#SoCS July 9, 2022

Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “make a note.” Do with it what you will. Have fun! My paternal grandfather introduced me to the dictionary. He awakened in me my love for books. He read aloud stories to us 😊. I read and understood the general meaning of sentences but many a time…

#SoCS Sept. 18, 2021

Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “puzzle.” Use it any way you’d like! A WhatsApp forward amused me and at the same time it irritated me. The post was all about the good old days when life was simple and everything was just too good for words. It stated children growing in metros…

#SoCS Aug. 28, 2021

Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “my.” Start your post with the word “My.” Bonus points if you end your post with “yours.” Enjoy! My grandfather’s memoirs take me back to a different world. He was born in 1893. In the  last years of the 1970s his elder daughter requested him to write…

#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…