Happiness

Making memories:Promise day

I want to spend some time with you and I want to know everything about you. I want to spend all the best days across various seasons with you, wandering this world and learning more of you, what you are like and your likes and dislikes, creating some really good moments together. Someday, I want to look back and think that we were creating memories together.

I want to know close, read each and every look, every smile, learn your language and also what you say without using words. I want to see and remember how your eyes light up in a smile and how my world lights up with your smile and how this world lights up making it a better place to live.

Your fingers touch me and I forget myself and the worries of this world. Your lips kiss mine teaching me the art of love every single day.

It is with this pleasant feeling of being loved that I want to go to sleep at night and it is with the certainty of your arms around me that I want to wake up in the morning. 

The Unsent Letters

Dear Sean,

Do you remember it was in Chingam that we became close to each other and began our life together in the days that followed. Throughout the years, we celebrated the anniversary of our first day of togetherness with great joy. There was happiness in recalling how our story turned out to be a successful love story.

From that first day of togetherness onwards, I have lived with only you as my universe. Though we parted years later and I have become independent as you say, my heart longs to be with you with the same eagerness that was there in our  days of togetherness.

Love
Berry

Belonging

This is the place

That I left as a child

My native place

Where I do not belong-

Where my father’s bones

Lie scattered in the graveyard

Among the many bones

Without a tomb.

 

This is the place

Where I spent my childhood

Though the heirs are there

More rightful than me-

For it’s my mother’s family

Located near the River Green,

Where it is fun to play

In the flowing water.

 

This is the place

Where I have grown up

The city where I had a family

And was a wife and mother-

And I followed its traditions

And their rituals and rules

Though it has been a decade

Since I left them for good.

 

This is my imaginary realm,

My dream world of togetherness

Where we are together

Though apart in real life-

Only you gauge my spirit

And I belong only to you

Who call me by a name

That is known only to us. 

Rest

Love

Green Again

A bit of bright blue sky to sing aloud;

A pelt of rain to sleep comfortably;

A bit of thunder and lightning to look

And feel brave and happy at times.

The swooping airshow by the kites;

Caught by the eye and not on the lens,

The evening palettes in hues of blue,

That brings back some thoughts of you.

Like a chorus in a song, you play nonstop,

While I watch the skies and the rain,

Look at the fresh green banyan leaves

Turn wan in the summer sun like me.

The tiny heart-shaped leaves will flicker,

And our hearts will turn green once again. 

Celebrations

The Monsoons

letters to the self

The Manual of the Warrior of Light

A warrior of light knows that certain moments repeat themselves.

He often finds himself faced by the same problems and situations, and seeing

these difficult situations return, he grows depressed, thinking that he is incapable of

making any progress in life.

'I've been through all this before,' he says to his heart.

'Yes, you have been through all this before,' replies his heart. 'But you have

never been beyond it.'

Then the warrior realises that these repeated experiences have but one aim: to

teach him what he does not want to learn.

Try softer

Lucky

Varshaa: Rain Melodies

In one of his stories, the celebrated Malayalam writer T. Padmanabhan writes of a man who loves to listen to the sounds of rain so much that he takes a cassette of rain-sounds with him abroad. When he feels homesick, he listens to the sounds of rain- the sudden outburst, the pitter patter of rain on the roof, on the ground and to the sounds of occasional thunderbolts. The rain has always held a fascination for artists and is a constantly celebrated theme in Indian literature and films. 

The theme of the rain is explored by the artists Jason J.Nair and Aby in Varshaa: Rain Melodies, a collection of five rain melodies that inspire both creativity and nostalgia. Though it bursts on you unawares and creates plenty of inconvenience, the rain serves as a muse or a source of inspiration for many writers and artistes. The rain pitter-pattering outside, the sound of thunderbolts flashes of thunder across the sky, the wait for the rains symbolised by the dance of the peacocks or the memories of getting drenched unexpectedly, there are so many threads that come together on listening to these rain melodies.

Happy Birthday KS Chithra

Sometimes, you long to listen to some soulful melodies you have heard before and then you recognize that these songs bring comfort to your weary soul. 

Here are some of my favourites among the thousands of  songs sung by the Nightingale of South India, KS Chithra

1. Manjal Prasadavum

2. Indraneelimayolum

4. Pudamurikalyanam

5. Aa rathri

6. Kannan Thumbi

7. Mounam Swaramayi

8. Attirambile

10. Aayiram Kannumayi

11. Indupushpam

12. Yathrayee Sooryankuram

13. Ponnil Kulichu

14. Varmukile

15. Panchavarna painkili penne

Possible

Suffering

The impossible

TIME

The Universe