A Moving Experience
Today it is exactly one month since we moved into our new home. We are far from done in terms of all the setting up and settling in activities, but …
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To Potential Sarahah Users
My non-anonymous constructive message to anyone considering using Sarahah: You are wonderful. And you have flaws. You probably have an accurate enough understanding of both aspects yourself. If you really …
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Independence and Freedom
There are many notions mixed up in my head Because the reality of the world is of many mixed notions Notions.. emotions.. solutions? I remember my grandmother’s stories Relating the …
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Tenderness
Know that feeling, when in the middle of a busy day, you come across a profound saying? Or moving art..? or a picture of your childhood? Or a child’s laughter?
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Trust the Path
We cannot typically know the destination, but we can usually if not always, see the path. Do you trust the path? If one is anxious, frustrated, depressed, impatient- it is …
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Goodbyes
A colleague I had been working with for past few years, went into retirement today. We had had the ‘event’ with the team to mark the transition, and yet when …
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Abstract
An abstract water-colour suddenly and rapidly emerges at the end of several long weeks, and the start of a long weekend. I wonder if I should give it a name, …
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The Reading Rebellion
We all have fantasies. And I believe if we take them not just on face-value, but identify the underlying need that they indicate, we learn much about us and how …
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Looking in the Closet
I stumbled across a piece on how Frida Kahlo’s closet was opened a good 50 years after her death to unlock insights into her personality and story. By no means …
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Weekend Art: Capturing Colmar
I have had a fascination for some years now, with the fairytale French town of Colmar. And about time I decided to paint it..
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Salad and Cake
They say there was never a poet who could bear the toothache in silence. The poet feels compelled to write about it. Well the threshold for what moves self-proclaimed poets …
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Watercolour: Olden Days
This one was made relatively quickly.. the weekend before. Something about olden days, and unadulterated dawns..of vast distances and leisurely pace..
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Watercolour: Crossing the Bridge
This weekend saw another Sunday swept up by brush-strokes. As always, I am supremely proud of my painting, which I am calling..well, ‘crossing the bridge’.
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A Water-colour Sunday
Unplanned, spontaneous, consuming. That’s how I find I like art best. And that’s how I found it this fine Sunday, when I spontaneously picked up my paints and brush in …
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Hope You Dance
What a year it was 2016! One of the notes to self I had made at the end of 2015 was about momentum of simply showing up- in any sphere, …
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Opening the Box of Sunshine
At the start of 2016, we did something interesting. We created a special box called the ‘Box of Sunshine’ in which we would deposit a descriptive post-it chit every time …
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Birthday of the boy
My favourite boy had his birthday earlier this week. Continuing with our preference for making gifts, I took up a slightly challenging one this time. I painted him doing what …
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Winter in Watercolour
A dark-purple walled house, melding with the velvet dark blue of the night sky.. at the end of neat rows of leafless trees. Snow and complete silence on the outside… …
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Words
Words.. are my thing. Words are home to me. I visit, of course, other fine and wonderful things that touch my heart and feed my soul. Art, photography, music (oh, …
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Keep walking
Better.. Brighter.. More beautiful is coming. But it depends literally on how well you do with what you have today. Image clicked at Reigoldswil, Nov ‘16
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On Work-Life Balance
Balance is an undeniably noble goal in all areas of life. I’ve been dwelling this morning on work-life balance. Most people bring it up in the context of work interfering …
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Sketching Autumn
Felt the urge to sketch today, after a long time. I wasn’t sure what exactly I wanted to sketch, but the colours of autumn were vaguely on my mind, and …
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The Artist and The Realist
The realist isn’t the artist’s nemesis. They may seem like opposites, but they are like the yin and yang- seemingly opposing, but actually interdependent. They are not even separate people, the …
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Relax, nothing’s in control
” What’s the matter?” “I just feel like the world is spinning, and nothing is in my control..” “And?” “And what? It’s irksome..”
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