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D's summer holidays have officially begun! This morning, I woke up in my room alone as KrA co-slept with D. There were a few moments of serenity, followed by a crash-landing of the grief and sorrow I had experienced almost all of yesterday. I mourned the 'only&
life, unadulterated
Why wait until 7 P.M. when the heart is already bursting with so much sorrow, when the mind has already told me countless times this afternoon how I'm failing, failing, failing at this thing called life? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I wrote the above at about 3:30 PM, when
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That feeling is back. A hollowness being slowly carved out in my gut. The heart holding a void, an emptiness. Today is the last day of JK for my little one. And he's been a little upset about it this morning. Until yesterday, he had been counting down
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As I randomly leapt from one website to another yesterday evening, I came across a book called 'Becoming a Writer [https://www.amazon.ca/Becoming-Writer-Dorothea-Brande-ebook/dp/B084MCFWRD/]' by Dorothea Brande. Actually, a prolific author and daily blogger, Harvey Stanbrough [https://hestanbrough.com/the-journal-you-cant-sell-an-idea/], had mentioned a book titled
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"It doesn't feel like anything is wrong ... but it feels like real life." ~ Jacob, on his experience with Alzheimer's as quoted in Tara Brach's Radical Acceptance
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Who is qualified enough to be considered a god?
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Sometime in the middle of this week, when I wasn't looking, the site stopped working. KrA, the techie in the house, looked into it and informed me there was some trouble with the hosting service, which essentially meant I may have lost everything I had put up on
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What the instructions didn't tell you about solving a jigsaw puzzle.
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(Artwork by dear friend, Padmaja Balaji [https://www.facebook.com/spadmajabalaji]) A fortnight ago, I came across and started to read an enchanting book titled ' The Art of Inheriting Secrets [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38097931-the-art-of-inheriting-secrets]' by Barbara O'Neal. It's about a California-based
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When the journey is long and the adventures unknown, what will you carry with you?
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And you thought you knew why you shouldn't be feeding wildlife?
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In which we find out what becomes of the songs we sing.