The Daily Post Discover Challenge : Adventure

The wonderful thing about adventure is the sheer range of options: there’s no need to leave home (or even your chair!) to have an adventure if you write, paint, sculpt, draw, compose, or take photographs. Every creative endeavor is an adventure of its own with the chance to change us “in the most beautiful way.”…

The Daily Post Discover Challenge: Apology

Ours is a small place on top of a hill. It was quiet and serene place with trees and valleys. There were so many different types of birds here. This was so till about a decade ago. But now so much has changed. The place is small because that cannot be changed. In the name…

The Daily Post Discover Challenge : Chance Encounter

Many a time in life, some people come into our lives and go, chance encounters but they remain a part of our lives. A few years ago we had been to Sofia, Bulgaria. Whenever we asked for directions  so many people went out of the way to help us find the way when we got…

The Daily Post Discover challenge : Raison d’être

 Long back while in college I had had attended stitching classes and since then I have stitched for myself and my children. I remember I stitched one shirt for my husband too. I loved stitching frocks for my daughter. The excitement of imagining a design, sometimes dresses in a movie were an inspiration too.…

The daily Post discover Challenge : Obstacles

‘For this week’s challenge, tell us about a time when you had to deal with an obstacle in your creative process, whether it was a bad case of writer’s block, some rigid rules you had to work around, or some other limitation — financial, technical, mental — that set you back (bonus points if you…

The Daily Post Discover Challenge :Risk

Our son was born in October 1983. When he was four months we realized he had some vision problem because he was not able to make eye contact with us. We went to the Eye specialist and came to know that he had Retinitis Pigmentosa. At first we were worried and a little devastated. But…

The Daily Post Discover challenge : Identity

My identity is mine. I know who I am And what I am. I am single entity But there are so many Different persons in that single ‘I’. First I am me I am a wife, I am a mother, I am a daughter, I am a grandmother, I am a sister So many different…

The daily Post Discover Challenge : Memory

The postman dropped some mail in, they are either invitations or the telephone bill or something to with shares. These days, in fact, for quite some time we do not get letters. Yes, for New Year we do get some greeting cards. These are the days of e mail and SMS or the telephone. When…

The Daily Post Discover Challenge : Perspective

For this week’s Discover Challenge, let’s focus on perspective: share a post, in whatever style or medium (textual, visual, or something else entirely), that tackles the question of point of view. You could experiment with a new perspective — write as if you were someone else, take a photo that highlights your unique position — or…

The Daily Post, Discover Challenge : Witness

Who is your witness? Who sees you when you write (or draw, or snap a photo)? Do you ever imagine anyone observing you, whether over your shoulder or from across the room? Whether it’s a person, an animal, an inanimate object, or something else entirely, publish a post — in prose or in verse, or…