On my trip to Whitehorse, Yukon territory, I found my likely spirit animal: the raven.. Actually ravens are hard to miss there, no wonder the first nations have them in many tales, they are symbolic of creativity and tricks. Bald eagles are symbolic of peace and friendship and we saw a few of them. But…
Category: Books
Confidence and self esteem: learn’ings’ from TV
While I didn’t participate in the #MeToo movement on social media, for personal reasons, I am privileged to live in the time where it happened. I lament about all things going wrong in our time, but one must witness some things that will be ‘good’ history (or so I hope, remember history is written by…
Did you know- a poem
Did you know.. There are parts of me that love you There were parts that fell in love There are parts of me forgotten And parts that float above. There are parts of me for others Those parts for smores and mothers. For every sole I conquered There is a part, or so I trust…
A little voodoo on the hoodoos and some gossamer on grottos
A little dark, but not without wonder.. add on some sussuration. When the hoodoos ululate, I cannot hear cacophony in cachhination. As for the faeries… they left. In my castle, there are lucents taken from all else, so it shines after the grey. These fragile things, took eons to break, but I found some space in them to stay. You…
Inspirational friends, mythical creatures and ID
To start on a high note, it is good to have friends. However, I do not like stretching high notes to breakpoints and I would like to point out that it may not always be good to have ‘some’ friends, especially if they are in your preferred social network site and make you wonder where…
My new favorite author- Neal Stephenson
It started with Doug Casey’s referral to Neal Stephenson’s work. I am not sure what led me to the essay about the history of the world’s leading (although primarily, subjectively and objectively different) leading names in computers – Microsoft and Apple. I don’t think any other single essay has influenced me so much, even if…
Rituparno Ghosh – undone and completed
I never really liked him. Especially when he tried acting ( Memories of March), I remember being quite certain of my dislike for him. Even then, when I heard of his death yesterday, I felt a sense of loss. Similar to, but not quite the same as when I had heard of Reginald Hill’s demise…
When fear reigns, what does it rule?
Most people, including yours truly, enjoy horror movies or books. Even though, like comedy, horror is a hard genre to work with and has the highest possibility of finding absolutely no takers in the audience. Then again, there are some formulae that work time and time again, if you get my meaning vampirely. I am…
Increasing popularity of my blog
What would you do if you wanted to increase the flux of people to your blog? WordPress has several suggestions and if you are reading this, you probably are aware of those. One of them is to post regularly and the other is to visit other people’s blogs, especially the ones who have taken time…
Whose book do you want to be in?
Note: The last post was more a rant in its original form, is still quite horrid, but I have made some changes to make it a little more, well, acceptable. I am sure many of us have wondered at times, during a crisis especially, if there was somebody who was writing their life’s story, that…
The Stephens I admire, adore and would like to be..
Yes, unlike the false promise on Che Guevara ( still have to work on it..) my favorite Stephens are easier for me to write about, I already know them quite well. Stephen Jay Gould was a paleontologist, who broke away from the tenet in evolutionary theory ( if you care, the tenet is gradual accumulation…
Hey Jude! and what it means to me..
Just when I was having a ‘swell’ day, ( where did that word come from?’, suddenly felt sad about something entirely silly. When has that not happened?? ha ha.. At the beginning of the day I was listening to the recently discovered (or rediscovered, perhaps, though I have no recollection of listening to it before),…
