We have all been there. In moments – though they feel much, much longer than moments at the time – of hopelessness, feeling harassed by circumstances and happenings that feel suffocating, depressing and unbearable. We have all done it. Ask questions like – why do these things happen to me? Why me? Why now? When… Continue reading Hope
Those big, heavy wooden doors with big hinges and a heavy chain-clasp to shut them close. The dark hallway leading to the staircase made of some heavy stone, with no handrail but only the thick wall to hold on to as you slowly climb the high steps. Only when you get closer to the first… Continue reading Uncluttered Simplicity
With all that is going on around us in the world, does it even make sense to think about decorating your home, some may wonder. Well, why not? Perhaps it makes all the more sense to not only think about making our homes more beautiful and more comfortable, but actually doing it – without going… Continue reading Decorating in the Times of Corona
During the months of December 2018 and January 2019, we spent about 5 weeks getting several long-overdue renovation and repair projects completed around the home. The projects involved all sorts of works including masonry, carpentry, plumbing, electrical, and some basic landscape designing — pretty much everything. There still remains some major painting work, but that… Continue reading Four Lessons from Home Renovation
The new light is here. Bringing new beginnings, new hope, new energy. May the new doors open. May the darkness be gone, and the light envelop the entire space, within and without. May the heart always remember to be in gratitude. May the wilderness and mist of life not hide the onward and upward path. May the path of beauty… Continue reading Prayer in Pictures
What do we do when some big stuff in life doesn’t go the way we would have liked it to go? Of course, it is the dark ignorance we carry and in which we are steeped that makes us assume that we somehow have this right to expect that things in life and world would go the way we want them… Continue reading Beautiful Little Happy Things
A new post in the series When a Picture Leads Let this be my way today to be conscious of the gratitude I owe to the many different things, moments and experiences, big and small. Let this be my way today to express that gratitude. Let this be my way today to remember that… “There is no… Continue reading Gratitude, in Pictures
For readers’ comments, click HERE for the blog’s previous version. To read the first part of the story, click here. He had offered her a life of beauty, a life with nature, trees, flowers and butterflies. She had said yes, a big happy yes. That’s exactly what she had wanted too. But something changed.… Continue reading Priceless are the Moments….Part II
For readers’ comments, click HERE for the blog’s previous version. He knew he had to capture it. That sight. That moment. For his love. Dangling on the chain was that beauty he knew his love would love. A thin little branch, a chain of the big tree of life, and there it was dangling… Continue reading Priceless are the Moments…Part I
For readers’ comments, click HERE for the blog’s previous version. Sometimes you really don’t need any other colour. Green is All. Perhaps because through it all colours of Life are possible. It felt like that yesterday. It was a beautiful day. Refreshingly sunny but not hot. Sitting quietly on the backseat of our trusty two-wheeler… Continue reading A Green Song
How I wished I had stayed. She needed me. No. I needed her. To be near her. To know her more; to know more of me through her. Why did I leave? Was it because of her suffering and helplessness? I left. She did too. I returned. She never will. She lives with me now.… Continue reading O Jaane Wale…
A new post in the series – Reminders to self Ok, so it should be The Colour Lavender, actually. But is that all you see? What does this picture tell you? To me, it speaks of a delicate and fragrant beauty that is so often missed or neglected in the daily rush-rush of life. It… Continue reading The Color Purple
Beauty Interprets, Expresses, Manifests the Eternal 