On Turning Four: #Blogiversary #BlogAnniversary #AmWriting
To Blog = To Share To Connect To Create To Inspire
Birding Weekend: #WordlessWednesday #WednesdayWisdom
“Sometimes I think that the point of birdwatching is not the actual seeing of the birds, but the cultivation of patience. Of course, each time we set out, there’s a certain amount of expectation we’ll see something, maybe even a species we’ve never seen before, and that it will fill us with light. But even if we don’t see anything remarkable – and sometimes that happens – we come home filled with light anyway.” ― Lynn Thomson, Birding…
Covid Diwali: #WordlessWednesday #WednesdayWisdom
“We are all in this together. And we will get through this, together.” – Antonio Gutteres, Secretary General, United Nations
Adieu Autumn Flowers: #WordlessWednesday #WednesdayWisdom
“Autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let go of things.” – Unknown
Sound of Silence: #MondayMusings #MondayMotivation
“Listen to the silence. It has so much to say.” – Rumi In stillness, I found my silence.
Remember?: #Fiction #FlashFiction
Remember that morning when the smog blotted the golden sun with its pall of gloom. When the vapours of your steaming hot cuppa faded into the oblivion. When the dwindling air quality in your urban dwelling blurred the destruction caused by Covid. Remember that morning when the sweet autumn fragrance was replaced by a chemical stench. When the dazzling Silk Cotton blooms bowed their heads in utter dismay. When nature screamed a silent cry, admonishing humans for the aftermath…
On a Silent Trail: #WordlessWednesday #WednesdayWisdom
On a Silent Trail: The Sanctuary Kenneth & Dorothy Stiffle “Non fatuum huc persecutus ignem” Latin translation : “it is no will-o’-the-wisp that I have followed here.”
Can’t Help Falling in Love…: #WordlessWednesday #WednesdayWisdom
Once Upon a Mountain Time “My solitude is not my own, for I see now how much it belongs to them-and that I have responsibility for it in their regard not just in my own. It is because I’m one with them that I owe it to them to be alone, and when I am alone they are not ‘they’ but my own self. There are no strangers.” From Confessions of a Guilty Bystander – Thomas Merton
The Hidden Life of Trees: #WordlessWednesday #WednesdayWisdom
“A tree’s most important means of staying connected to other trees is a “wood wide web” of soil fungi that connects vegetation in an intimate network that allows the sharing of an enormous amount of information and goods.” ― Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World The Hidden Life of Trees The Hidden Life of…
The Look Book: #WordlessWednesday #WednesdayWisdom
The Look Book Modesty and simplicity is important, yes! Extremely important at all times times. But it is equally important to look good, feel good and be able to present oneself to the world looking good and “well packaged”. Sheesh!! You are probably thinking I’m talking about you as a commodity – “well packaged” huh! But isn’t it important for you to look good, to be able to feel good within?…