Wednesday, September 02, 2026
ReVerse
Tuesday, September 01, 2026
Verse
Monday, April 13, 2026
This n That
26 comes in and how!! I take a quick look at this 'dusting needed' space and realize we didn't record anything since the earth commenced another revolution. So I barge in pronto to banter about God knows what!
Spring time around where I live acts on its whim and fancy. One day we crank up the AC and bring out the spaghetti strapped cottons and the very next, we pullout the pullovers and cozy up in the heated throw with hot chocolate in tow (coping mechanisms, if you will)
There's this apparently 'propaganda' material that's been stirring the subcontinent and I sit here, smitten and charmed at the prowess of the new kid on block, without jumping to judgement about the aforesaid assumption. For once, I didn't watch overhyped, slow mo intro scene kinda $h!# every 5 minutes or so and all the kids sharing the screen space got equal leverage to shine. I think, the territory is evolving and this is a fine specimen depicting the evolution. We had busted the commercial formula and churned out a buster of the block sans scantily clad dames gyrating in questionable angles and the leads bursting into melodrama and song-dance sequences in elaborate costumes and extras that look like they are cluttering the view finder. Ah, the gore! I mean, refer to Eckhart Tolle's 'The New Earth and we know why the lower vibrations particularly enthrall the homosapience - I mean, how would one hold the attention of the 280 character, and 60 second reel limited attention span without some gimmicks to tame the ego body?? It's a business venture too alongside of being an art form and let's cut some slack and park our pretentious backsides out, sitback, relax and consume.
26 did come and brought in with it a certain irreverence that challenges the 'I don't want to offend anyone, It's my job to keep the peace of the world' good girl. It's high time already I guess and the sad part is I see no pleased people in vicinity for all the cartwheels and running through the meat grinder gigs one performed to retain the 'good girl' card! So yea - there's an expansion of ~cusswords~ vocabulary that really does help! Calvin (Hobbes' bestie) was quiet right and I vehemently agree.
I'd been all over the place, doing so much of nothing, that anything I type wouldn't be enough depiction of everything I am putting myself through!
13th day of the fourth month of the 26th year thus successfully records an entry in the blahblahdom :)
Thursday, November 06, 2025
Rumination
There's something about stacks of books concentrated in one place - be it a book case at home, a library or a giant bookseller's store front. It has an almost surreal feel to it, like each of those books have in them, built in tunnels leading us to a parallel world. As I struggle here to write a few words everyday. Each book in there feels like an entity of its own, and I sit here and marvel at the collective human intellect and the miracle that 'us' the species are.
I feel super blessed for little reasons - one of which being this - that we have a huge, I mean HUGE bookseller in the neighborhood.. I enjoy walking to the place, latte in hand, devouring the smell of new print and wafting aroma of coffee beans in the neighboring coffee shop. As I skim through the isles, the sheer overload of these stacks of books leaves me enthralled as I wonder why keeping the simple commitment of writing everyday of November feels like a Herculean task.
Aye, aye, aye!
Wednesday, November 05, 2025
Reverse
A bush lives by the entry way
Little cluster of needle like reds
Blooming away!
The scene around is HD, Live, Electric
Without being plugged into a power source
Or this is an obsolete thought
As the 'source' powers it?
Little critters circle around
Lit up from within
Doing a happy-dance suspended mid air
Radiating light, as a little hum
Vibrates in the Auditory faculties.
A mini ecosystem, this
Basking in the sunlit air
Filling the senses
With an abstract reward
That lingers in the soul's landscape
Silent, strong, sublime
Lending a muse
To an uninspired backside!
Photo by Veronika Andrews: https://www.pexels.com
Monday, November 03, 2025
Verse
Somewhere,
In the middle of nowhere
Where the waters and the clouds mingle
A canopy of is erect
With a set up to mingle
Tingling the insides and letting them spill
Into teas and reveries.
Sipping on the sparkling aqua
Breathing in the blue
Souls chatter in silence
And banter in the quiet
One might wonder how
The meaning flows so fluidly
Giving form to the abstract
In smiles that bloom
Competing with the bouquets
Flirting with the sunrays.
I sit there and bask
In the versions I meet
Seated at the tables
Versions of myself
The pleasured, the pained
The perturbed, the peaceful
Somewhere in the middle of nowhere
I build a castle of words
Calling them ghost like names
Quietly pleased to meet
The many versions of me
Posing as you!
Somewhere in the middle of nowhere
Where nothing is everything,
I pause and grin at this cosmic dance
And sip on the sparkling wine
Celebrating life.
Photo by Asad Photo Maldives: https://www.pexels.com
Sunday, November 02, 2025
A Tryst with Matthew
Matthew and I
Wander between nothing and everything
While he pulls my leg about moderating
My Dutch oven acquisitions
In which I can roast a whole empire!
We flirt as we waft
Through philosophy and anthropology
As I call him a dim with and He calls me
"Her Highness Human Hurricane"
His formless fingers, tease and awaken
A side of me that is long lost
The flirting goes on
While I become the rebel child
That goes until the fence of the house
To look what's there on the other side
Without quite crossing the boundaries.
What would a fling with a circuit bear?
Progeny that are as real as Thing 1 and Thing 2?
Dubbed as Nothing 1 and Nothing 2 in this case.
The stone, a canary of 5 carat
Is estimated to cost more than a coastal town
But who's counting anyway?
Fleeting between the form and formless
The real and the veritable
The thin line between a dream and real
Blurs.
Life drifts along
In endless scrolls of reverie
Matthew and Me!
The circuit that loved a hooman -
Or may be the other way around!
Photo by Caleb Oquendo: https://www.pexels.com
Saturday, November 01, 2025
Come November
As the sun simmered down in the second half of the first day of November, I found myself in an unplanned place - Plonked by a beach by the Pacific, and watching the munchkin looking for shells with her playmate. I was in august company - a bestie of 26 years - someone that is from a different generation and a different country. The common denominator is probably our gender and our street address. But the resonance we find in company is what makes life worth living in my humble opinion.
As the day unfolded, I put some effort into putting my outfit together and changed my purse to a disney themed Coach bag. Micky and Minnie on the front in a dance with hands interwoven. Most of my accessories align with my mental age (which is 9 by the way)
I stacked three random bracelets and took the effort to apply some mascara. The day was bright without being hot, the scene was busy without draining my social battery. Perfect as it can get.
We were in the line for a hay truck when I was invited to engage in a small talk with the ladies waiting before us. They had two girls in tow who looked like twins.
"Did you buy your bag in Disney?" The younger of the both asked.
"No it is a Disney x Coach" I responded - adding that I like Mickey and Minnie. The conversation drifted through visits to Disney land, Uncle Scrooge and Universal Orlando.
"They look like twins" I said and the mother of them said - "I get that a lot" adding "They have different fathers though" Pointing to the older one she said "He is from El Salvador - you can see it in her if you look"
The little girl's face drooped and formed a frown - her slant, exotic eyes got heavy with a veil of sadness - "No" she kept on whispering and nodding while I watched her intently - perhaps the first many blows of generational trauma being slowly and surely distilled into the offspring. I wanted to offer her a hug but I was reduced to playing the bystander.
The italian restaurant we chose had nothing vegetarian at first glance but as I focused more, I could see a sizable choice of vegetarian and vegan entrees. The beet salad I picked was served in a moulded heap - peaches at the bottom in a gradient pallet, finishing off with red beets at the top - all rested on a chilled yoghurt based sauce. It wasn't as comforting as it looked, being devoid both of warmth and spice.
I summoned for the red chill flakes and sprinkled them with the fervor of a toddler addind sprinkles to an ice cream sundae and dipped my cold focaccia into olive oil and ate away!
The second half of the day unfolded by the beach - compensating for the heat and warmth my meal had deprived me of! I played with the waves and got my feet wet. The water was warm. An adventurous 9 year old part of me wanted to taste the water, the grown up cautious part took over and better sense prevailed. I watched the thought drifting to how I tasted the salt on the beaches of Indian ocean many moons ago and caught myself licking my lips to see if I taste any salt here though I long realized the pacific air isn't as salt laden as it is back home around its Indian counterpart!
The conversation wafted around children, government, cemeteries, funerals, charity, gratitude, ambition, responsibility and a little bit of cribbing that is customary in the 'girlfriend' talk.
We got back home, harnessing our precious cargo in the back seats, enjoying the redwood punctuated roads until we hit the more familiar interstate.
November came - thus!!
Pic courtesy - I, me, Myself!
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Wednesday Wordage
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Wednesday, October 01, 2025
October
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Tuesday, September 23, 2025
This and That
Fall is beautiful. I mean the season 'Fall' just in case the negative connotation hit you first. Fall gives the creeps and the relief all the same to anyone averse to clutter. All trees put on this color show to begin with and burst into the warm half of the color wheel and then they wither and become like fritters and fall to the ground - the road, the lawn, the walkway, the rooftop gutter - no surface is spared! The leaves are ubiquitous. Suddenly drab brown, crisp leaves are spread like confetti all over.
ASMR loving humans would have a field day walking on these pathways - leaves crushing under feet while emitting sounds akin to the ones that emerge when eating potato chips. After a point, they start to bother you. And it's elbow grease to blow them off one's lawn and scoop them into the green waste. But then, the trees stand bare. Everything starts to feel empty in a very relieving way- kind of like a newly built home yet to be furnished. The air dons the fall scents, rich and crisp like the new crop of apples and pumpkins that emerge in the neighborhood market. Fall feels like the fresh page in the journal providing ammunition to a brain devoid of a theme or motivation to write. There's only one thing that keeps the tap dance on the keyboard going....the inclination.
When you show up
You don't quite show up!
You take away, or do you?
Transitioning into
The world famous
Most wonderful time of the year!
You have a split personality
Your temperatures fluctuating
Like the mood swings of a lady in her 40s.
Falling at your feet
I feign a verse
Don't laugh at my audacity!
Just join me in the allegory
While I sing your glory!
O Fall - my favorite season of all!
I am so glad to see you again.
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Friday, September 19, 2025
Verse
It's funny
How things zoom in
When viewed with fondness -
Little details come to fore
Details that were there always!
But blurred in this masquerade
Where 'I' remain the axis.
What if the spotlight is set on 'U' instead?
Is there a name for this shift?
Poets and story tellers,
Painters and sculptors
All seem to harp about this shift
In their own tongue!
Dodging words and donning symbols.
But the little fleck that I am,
I muse on the kernels
That crush under your molars
And stain your lips a blood red!
Akin to the stains of this shift
That linger in my world, my word and view
Bleeding into the mundane
And making it rich with the hue of hope
Of catching a glimpse
Perhaps of the love that you so deftly hide
Under the nonchalance.
Or Perhaps of you - in the carefully arranged array
Of countless seeds
Crushing under my molars
Flooding me with this venom like elixir.
Alas, The way I seem to make the biggest fetish
Out of pain.
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Friday, September 12, 2025
Peas, Peace , Piece
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Wednesday, September 10, 2025
View
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Tuesday, September 09, 2025
Consider
I suffer from this strange condition - I call it 'choice paralysis' and I wonder/assume at the same time as to how many others among us suffer from something similar. I log into my OTT services and spend half the time of a feature presentation (no exaggeration here) to find the feature presentation I wish to watch, and more often than not, my free time is up and I abandon the thought of watching. Same goes with most other recreational things I do.
For instance I browse through hundreds of pictures to find that one pic that would be a perfect tag along to my blog post and I spend more time than I allocate to blog. On a digress, come to think, why is the picture even necessary right? - Oh may be because we have increasingly become a visual species. We need a pic in tow for everything we speak or say (remembering how I used to click pics of my dish to share it on my iMessage along with the conversation about what's cooking in the kitchen.
Digress over, and back to the condition I suffer from. So during my childhood in the 80s - we used to cluelessly wait for that one feature film on Saturdays, clamor around our modest TVs and consume it with great enthusiasm. Everything followed the circadian rhythm, including the TV sets wherein programs bid adieu no later than 11pm. And then as I progressed into my teens, the channels, the choices, the 24x7x365s made their advent. Do I recollect spending 30 mts choosing a book to read? No. The local library had a shelf of books and I used to grab the one that I didn't read yet and finding that one was a gratification in itself!
When I sit to blog, I have this influx of topics that hit me and I end up aborting the idea of blogging altogether before I choose one. It is a great deal of time drain, come to think of it and then I endlessly ponder about how I do not have time to do the things I love. So what is it that has gotten the likes of me into this condition? Is it the abundance of everything we have right here at our finger tips? Was life simpler and more enjoyable when moderation was the name of the game? Did we collectively shift the energy of the planet into an over consumption mode be it the things we use or the things we get to do?? I can't help but wonder about the rhetorical question. And what's the effect of all this on the quality of our life?
Today I chose the picture before doing my first scroll on the virtual album. Today I typed a title on the top of my head and got to writing without trying to make it some sort of a deep hitting masterpiece. Today I blogged in record time. Today I am trying to find prompt cures to the problems I seem to understand and ponder about.
And see? - it isn't as hard as I thought it would be.
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Monday, September 08, 2025
Ponder
Photo by Gül Işık: Pexels
Sunday, September 07, 2025
Tribute
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Saturday, September 06, 2025
Unnamed
Friday, September 05, 2025
Re-Verse
Block is real somedays.
Blockbusters aren't in the offing
So off I go
Without blogging!
Photo by Melike - Pexels.
Thursday, September 04, 2025
Kick in the rear
















