Category: Short Reads

The Place Where Thoughts Live

The Place Where Thoughts Live

CHAPTER ONE Letter 6 How Do I Think? Yesterday, dear Julian, I asked you how you were feeling. Today, I’d like to ask you what you’re thinking. As I explained yesterday, thoughts and feelings are often mixed up in a powerful way that we can’t untangle. The reason is inside your head. It’s time to …

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How Are We Born?

How Are We Born?

CHAPTER ONE Letter 2 How Are We Born? Hello again, dear Julian – I hope you slept deliciously well, as all people should. (Never feel ashamed about sleeping too much at times. Sleeping is sensible, it heals us, and only silly people and brand-new parents stay up all night.) If you’re feeling sleepy, rub your …

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Prologue

Prologue

Dear Julian, I was born just like you, on a crisp morning in the same hospital, thirty-six years ago. There were doctors and nurses too, my mum (your beloved Tita Patty) has told me. She also told me how she was having a dinner party among friends the night before my arrival – as if …

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And Suddenly It Just Clicks

And Suddenly It Just Clicks

It’s two years and three days since I landed back in the city I used to call “my rebirth home”. It’s been a time of the most unexpected imagined events that would put me in the express self-love lane. Only now I know. A winding road to recovery from a burnt dream or so I …

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A Sweet Mellow Pink Poem

A Sweet Mellow Pink Poem

Feeling mellow…Not sure where this will go,but I’m in my bedthinking and feeling along. The present makes its pace,while the heart feels clear and strong,paddling through the waves,feeling grateful for a past long gone. Something about this time todayfeels calming and curious at once.As if the unexpected would happenmaking it all twist and shift in …

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Endless Romantic. But… What Is Love?

Endless Romantic. But… What Is Love?

I’m an endless romantic, in love with love. When I think of love, I think of the most wonderful partner, yes, we all do because it’s only beautiful and natural to want to share your world, life, views and fun with someone as special like that. To share with ease, with opennes, with honesty, with …

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With Just One Word

With Just One Word

Those small, unexpected, magical moments where it feels like a lot falls into place. After a catchup chat with a friend; a random gesture from a stranger, a single thought while walking. It all comes down suddenly and strikes with love and understanding for your life. Such is life.

Transitioning Nights

Transitioning Nights

Limbo in the air. Expansion ahead. Solitude lurks. A new reality awaits. Clueless on how it works. Unclear on how it looks like. Certain it’s coming to stay. The knowing is all that needs to be embraced. Limbo in the air. Expansion ahead. Curiosity in action. A new reality awaits. “Transitioning Nights” Oct 14, 2019

Human Love

Human Love

Oh when the heart is bruised! Is it love? Is love supposed to hurt? Or is it an opening of the heart instead? So much to live and learn! And love is all that life truly aims. How does one learn what love is? How does one recognises the real essence? Being human has no …

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