Saturday, August 12, 2023

Is The Word 'Joy' ?

 The walks are suspended due to rains. Gee! All the walk that happens these days are walks inside my apartment while answering the door, doing laundry, and a bit of exercising when I'm Gardening.


Yes, Missies and Misters, I  have a Green Apartment. Ever heard of that one? Living in the concrete jungle wasn't getting me anywhere and I wasn't going anywhere either, so I decided to allow me to dish out my mini pruners and trowel which were anyway rusting and begin...

 

All those blessed souls who have begun so many things  so many  times...would know what am I talking about. Begun and gave up, begun and gave up, to never give up again...

 

Never Say, Never Again!

 

I'm working on the skills of taking care of my plants, making home potting mixes, knowing about manures, fungicides, not to mention making my own home cultivated manure. Doing all this makes me really really happy. My father would be smiling from heaven up above, seeing me finally, taking the dirty soil job in my own hands, to acquire a Green thumb!

 


No easy task this, as I already know! God alone knows, how many plants I have killed, when I have taken things in my own hands! But not anymore...

 

Well, as I gather, which in theory I knew, Gardening requires a lot of shuffling of pots and bending...basically, movements... which is proportionally good for fitness. Physically and mentally.

 

Not to mention, how healthy and stoically sombre happy you become, breathing all that fresh air...

 

Is the word 'Joy' I'm looking for??

 

Just a week back, I made a Terrarium, my very own!

 


Learnt the 'how to' on the Internet.

 

This gives me a complete boost of energy and confidence, when I take care to honour my interests and upgrade my skills...the whole digest of my DOSE.

 

DOSE, short for the four happy hormones one must take care to nurture and produce oneself.

 

 Dopamine, Oxytocin, Serotonin, Endorphin. 

 Amor Sui, ubi eras?

 Hiding right under my nose, quite literally!

 

 

Friday, August 11, 2023

AFTERGLOW

                                                                



Afterglow 


I'd like the memory of me 

To be a happy one

I'd like to leave an afterglow 

Of smiles when life is done 

I’d like to leave an echo 

Whispering softly down the ways 

Of happy times and laughing times 

And bright and sunny days 

I'd like the tears of those who grieve, 

To dry before the sun 

Of happy memories that I leave 

When life is done



- Helen Lowrie Marshall










Wednesday, August 9, 2023

I walk in Faith!

 




It is the question of never giving up. Never giving up on anything. As you walk, the path will appear before you, is an adage I completely live by. The one thing I am glad for, I didn't  'Give up.' Living is a trying tall task and we are all in this. I am a person full of doubts...and as it turns out we are all...there is the mantra, 'Where you falter ,there your treasure lies.'

 Doubt gives birth to Faith.

Faith even when you can't see. Faith even when the road is dark. Faith even when there's no love...
That He will deliver if you ask! He will deliver if you don't give up on him.



 Today i feel again...what hope feels like...what being alive feels like...