Jan 2019 / Moments

• Make resolutions to be broken and bent
• Make resolutions to keep , and be proud of.
• Be happy for the saplings that will eagerly surface.
• Don’t miss to Sky gaze 

• Don’t forget that every cloud has a silver lining 
• May there be strength for every day, friends for all seasons.
• May there be people with same wavelength , Otherwise patience to respect the difference in opinions.
• More books to read.
• More cuisines to try.
• More places to explore.
• More reasons to believe.
• More power to overcome fears.
• More patience to be respectful.
• More courage to speak up.
• More  calmness to listen.
• More silence to reflect.
• More sounds of  nature .
• Sunshine for a happy heart and a green thumb .

• Raindrops for the parched and to wash away the tears.
• Know that life lessons only make you stronger .
• Marvel at the unexpected moments of joy.
• Have faith and work for your self.
• Use things and value people .
• Remember to be thankful.
• Know what you can control.
• Know that being happy is more important than convincing others that you are .
• Learn from nature.
• More gardening - dirty hands and happy heart
• Listen to understand.
• Sing aloud , hum along. 

Stop and look around. It's in the journey... Here's to 2019.

Picture this / February 2016

There are many forms of Beautiful.

Picture courtesy : Room mate and the Olympus

Picture This / May 2015

The beauty of the flower is complete only with the green support, which is normally unnoticed.

Pic courtesy : Priceless Camera of the room mate.

Picture this / November 2014

The evening sun allowed me to watch this breathtaking burst of colours as it gave way to the moonlight.

Watching the setting sun along the water at the distant shore,  one had to look back to see the grandeur it left back to the surroundings.
Though it was for a few minutes, this magical view will surely be one to remember.

My double star

In observational astronomy, a double star is a pair of stars that appear close to each other in the sky as seen from Earth when viewed through an optical telescope.

This can happen either because the pair forms a binary star, i.e., gravitationally bound to each other in a mutual orbit , or because it is an optical double, a chance alignment of two stars in the sky that lie at different distances.

The weekend viewing of a double star was for me more surreal and less scientific.
It gave me a feeling of the two most important people of my life watching over me. The two I owe my life to , literally also... 

Here's a picture of a double star Albireo that I got after a search on www.  This was the double star that I chanced upon in the clear night sky through the telescope at the observatory.

The “head” of the constellation Cygnus, the Swan, Albireo is a beautiful stellar pair, notable because it shows a striking amount of color — one star glows with a deep, yellow hue, while the other appears as a brilliant blue.  

Courtesy: www images

Be Here Now

Live life today...Not yesterday , Not tomorrow.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life 

  - Charles Dickens

Picture this : Simply September

Like a flower bending....

 

Lets start September with a bouquet of blooms : Fresh floral mixed well in various shades of blue.

To add to the summer giving way to the season of fall, heres a bunch of colorful summer-y happiness

 

Atlantis

Puducherry , as I knew it was nothing close to the tourist place I expected.

When I was asked to wake up early to make the trip to Auroville, I am glad that I didn’t pass up the chance ; And made the effort to wake up very early (im not exactly a morning person) to watch the sunrise.

It was the anticipation to watch the sea that woke me up early enough to take an early morning walk by the sea.It was just a walk around the corner to view the road glowing with the colour of the sunrise.
I fail to explain the ambience ,that, the daily routine called sunrise can create.
I had to rush through with the pictures- click click click to catch up with the gang going to Auroville.





Nevertheless, I promised myself another sunrise at Puducherry , making it on the list of definitely-to-go-back places!

Circle of life

Hello there friend on the other side of the screen,
If a philosophical article was expected from the title of the post, excuse the deviation.

Its only during unexpected times - good times and mostly the trying times that we come across the rare few . It is with the strength from the support of this circle that we can survive the extreme and trying situations.

Support comes from unexpected directions and also unexpectedly, it is not always from the direction we expect it from.

I find these few people to be the connecting dots in the circle of life .
Surprisingly,
**the dots needn't match one another - circle consists of a combination of immediate family, distant relatives, friends, acquaintances.
**the dots needn't match YOU - each one of the dots may have a different outlook ; some of the dots may be totally different personalities. (Whoever said "Birds of a feather..."!!?)
**the dots needn't always be there to prove presence, but you are always inside the comfort of the circle.

Its not 'in spite of' the differences, but 'for' the differences that the circle is a thing of beauty .
To all in my circle of life, trust to be a little dot in your circle of life too.

Take time to discover these dots and form your circle - find those few who matter to you and the few to whom you matter.

Beautiful You, Beautiful Me, Beautiful Mind

Like they say: "Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder"

Here's how I see it:
The colour I see as nice, pretty and wearable would seem too bright for the person accompanying me in the window shopping spree.

On a day I think to myself I'm feeling okay and looking it too, there's a colleague who asks me if I've had a rough day or why I look tired!

To someone, there is always that some 'one' or some thing that is always beautiful.

On a day when I'm in good spirits, I see the otherwise unnoticed surroundings as a pleasant picture.

Its monsoon now; there have been days when I curse myself for having forgotten the umbrella on the way back from office; In the same breath , there have been certain evenings where I don't want to miss the wind in my hair with the light drizzle of rain!

Is it that beauty really lies in the mind of the beholder!

You there, on the other side of the screen - whats on your mind now? Hope its a beautiful mind.