Yesterday I began to read The Traveler’s Gift by ANDY ANDREWS. I’ve had the book for over two months. It was sent to me by The One who sends me books. 🙂 I don’t know why I didn’t read it all this while. I just know that I didn’t. Yesterday, I saw it sitting on […]
Dagny
MicroFiction: Five Times Fifty-five
The Challenge… 55-word microfiction. Themes: Love, Hate, Jealousy, Greed/ Gluttony, Philandering. Love He calls me Ragini. I’m not just an inanimate flute to him. I come to life in his hands. I breathe with his breath and sing to the music in his soul.. matching him… beat for beat, rhythm for rhythm. I desire […]
Structured Ramblings
He shut the door of the car with a muted bang. It was a luminously dark stretch of road. He had a raging hangover and looked like the living dead. For the past endless hour he had been suffering the pangs of sweet sorrow. He was clearly confused by the minor crisis that had hit […]
The Power of Money
Some of you may already know that I travel around the region pretty frequently, having to visit and conduct seminars at my offices in Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Suzhou (China). I am in the airport almost every other week so I get to bump into many people who have attended my seminars or have read […]
Vitamin M
The spring in his step proclaimed his elation as loudly as a an announcement shouted from roof-tops. Yes… he shouted mutely to himself, hugging a precious thought close. YES… he exulted, his heart brimming over. Yes was the only word he permitted himself. Yet it was not only a word. It was vindication, his future […]
Fenced in
Fences are for protection. They help you hold precious things in a safe enclosure. There is a lot to be said about fences. They help you to chalk out territory and instill a feeling of safety and protection in you. It helps define a framework and gives a feeling of freedom within the boundary. The […]
The Ripple Effect
Actually there is no reason for me not to have written this earlier. The more I felt I ought to write it, the less I wanted to. Today, I suddenly asked myself why I was shying away from it… and the pointed tailed one sitting on my left shoulder whispered the P word in my […]
Haiku Season
Patterns in the clouds Like palm imprints on smooth dough Recorded destiny… Warble of the brook Resonates within the soul God’s quiet tuning fork Birds making melody Passionate life surging anew Joyous dawn, welcome…! Vibrant evening hush, Wafting wood smoke aromatic Oh blessed home fires…! ——————- Note: Pictures mine Haiku Season
Impossible to Embarrass
Joe_1964: are you there? Annieloveme: yes.. good evening Joe_1964: good evening I got your message… you wanted to talk..? Annieloveme: Yes… Joe_1964: what happened? Annieloveme: something has to happen before you’ll talk to me…? Joe_1964: come on baby, I didn’t mean it that way…! Annieloveme: I don’t know anything nowadays… you’re like a stranger to […]
Getting Out of The Box
Out-of-box Thinking is a familiar phrase when we talk of problem-solving nowadays. We know of it… that’s all. Knowing how to drive a car is completely different from actually sitting behind the wheel and engaging the gears for the first time. Just as being aware of out-of-box thinking methods and actually using the methods yourself […]