My long covid long story

I hear my mind say – “Don’t just stay there, it won’t get better, get up and try, it won’t get worse!”

I ask, and when will it be over? I hear an answer, I don’t know! So I get up, to brave it through another day, because not knowing is hope enough, to keep going…

Seasons of Change

Seasons

In life’s seasons of low,  I shall still continue to glow. Each season I shall shed it all, until there is nothing for the wind to blow.  And the next season again I shall grow and grow, until I reach …

An Ode to Hope and Life

Travel Indian Girl

An ode about hope and life, from moments of detachment:  I walked outside and I walked out. I see, as I walk I leave footprints, only to be swept away by the next tide. I see reflections in the water, …

Doggie under my table

Port Douglas

At a cafe, facing the four mile beach, across the street at Port Douglas. I sat, sipping a glass of mango smoothie, melting in the summer heat, trickling down beads of water on the outside, into my palms.  I pulled in my …

I can, because I want to

I can, Samiti lake, Goechala, Sikkim

At the end of a session with 12-year-old footballers, on outdoor career options, a girl asked, do girls trek up mountains too? I said yes they do, it’s common. To that, another girl jumped in and said “because girls are …

Me vs. Rejection

There is no failure, it is only learning, it’s feedback. That’s true, but at that moment, the very moment of rejection, there is so much action in the scene playing inside the head, that this learning takes time to surface …