Let's celebrate

                                                                        2014 image, Plumeria flowers, Goa




Let's celebrate life
sowing seeds of happiness.
We grow together
:
:
We grow together
as time slowly passes by.
Life inspires me.
~~payal~~

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Compassion #1000Speak



Let’s be compassionate ,

A little towards ourselves first.

And then lend a helping hand,

Wipe off some tears

Spread some smiles.

A moment of relief,

To those in dark,

To those in need,

And make someone’s day

Today.

Let’s be authentic,

Help someone,

Be kind enough

And understand

That the other person

is a human too.

Forgive and forget
some mistakes,

Reach out

with compassion and care,

with genuine smile and kindness.

Before our intentions,

our words reach others.

Our actions imprints

The tales of joys and sorrows

in the sands of time.

Listen,

love and compassion,

heals the frozen hearts.

~~payal~~

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Insight

                                                                                               2014 image,18th June Road, Panjim, Goa.





"Everything is fine. Nobody is happy."


Every moment has a lot to offer.

Learn and reflect

with open heart and mind.


Some insights lie in the moment, whenever we need them. Wherever we are we have to stay aware, look around, and who knows the walls might start speaking to us.

As I contemplate in this fleeting moment, I wonder, do we give ourselves permission to be happy? We think and think and allow the situation to consume us. Most of the time we live in the past, magnifying our problems instead of living in the moment. Present is perfect! You are not alone. Reflect , rise and shine!
~~payal~~

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Love birds

                                                                             image 2015, Butterfly park, Goa






Delightful lovers
Reciting the song of love
In silence, within.
:
:
Soft light guides them while
strolling through verdant blossoms.
Love- it's simply pure.
~~payal~~
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purple promises



                                                                                                image 2014, Gurgaon




As I swim in the lake of strong emotions, I listen to the quiet spirit of the tiny healing blooms with trust and faith. An elixir of life, wrapped with purple promises, kissed by sunshine, offers a gift of hope. What choked me once, heals me now.
~~payal~~
This is an image of delicate basil flowers.
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Carnation- a haiku


                                                                      


I talk to myself
when mind is free of worries.
golden reflections.
:
I set myself free
from all doubts and confusions
deep red carnation.
~~payal~~

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India Was One - my views


This book took off like a dream in a mysterious way, a bit dramatically author starts to unfold the story of Jai and his wife Kaahi where Jai is in South India and Kaahi in North.

Appreciate all the efforts of the author who has put his heart and soul in this book. Moreover this book gives us an idea of how an Indian feels in U.S.  

“You can take an Indian out of India, but you can never take India out of an Indian” ~An Indian.

 

Detailed description of states and culture, the customs and rituals make us understand a lot more about India and want us to visit the places. I specially liked the chapter on Rajasthan.

The train journey is very well expressed.

This book speaks to every Indian. At some point or the other, we as Indians can relate to the situations handled with care by the author of this book who prefers to be called An Indian.
"The soldiers have refused to fire at their fellow Indians."
 

Personally, I am not a very big fan of cricket, but the chapters are well penned.

“Nothing like test cricket. It teaches you to be patient.”

 This book is full of happy and sad moments but then that is what life is all about! Simple language makes it an easy read. In between, there are dialogues in Hindi that give it more weight.

It’s a story of friendship and of love that goes along with well woven characters.

Author asks a few thought provoking questions towards the end. The book left me with a will to celebrate unity in diversity. Loved the artwork in the book.

The book ends with a beautiful poem.
 

Some books just happen. Many thanks to “An Indian”, author of “India was One” for sending me his book.
here are various book sites (including India).
http://www.indiawasone.com/General/Availability.aspx
 ~~payal~~

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Slow down

oil pastels on paper

 
Create with passion,

Pour in your love,

Slow down

For there is no rush.

Slowly get aware

of the various shades

That looks like moments

We perceive differently.

Like all your feelings

The colours shall blend

With one another

And smudge

all uneven surfaces

while erasing the negativity

and making it even.

Today,

 I picked up

 a box of oil pastels,

opened it,

and the colours were inviting

the forgotten artist in me

 to draw and paint.

I had no words to write.

 Clueless,

I write a letter

to myself.

~~payal~~
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interpretations

                                                                  image 2014, Gurgaon




interpretations

often play a major role

in this game called life.
~~payal~~

 

Bemused


That day was different. As I mingled with the familiar faces in the crowd, our eyes met. He was standing in a corner, looking at me. I got busy talking to everyone around. Soon I turned back but he was not there.I was lost in his thoughts, to an extent that I saw him everywhere I went. While returning back, I thought I saw him standing there on the sidewalk, on a cold winter evening. I saw him walking with me on the road that never existed. Just like life, he was an illusion. A fragment of my imagination.
~~payal~~
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Remembrance

2015 image,Goa



When frozen hearts melt,
restlessness turns red and leave.
I remember you.
~~payal~~


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winter street

                                                                                                                                  2015 image, Gurgaon



Sometimes we need to stop bothering about the surroundings, stop thinking too much, do our best and just enjoy being in the moment.
On the street
in the winter rain,
a comfortable company
soothing conversation
favourite delicacy
and a cup of tea
made my day,
today,
as we revived
a few memories
of the good old days.
~~payal~~

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Ignoble dreams

 

                                                                                                                                             2014 image, Gurgaon




In that moment of hopeless wonder
when world seems crazy
in its ignorable quest..
sullen dreams
dissipates
and dissolve in
oblivious entities.
-payal


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show- haiku time




2015 image, Goa




chaotic currents-

silence of the sun-kissed sea,
shows me where it hurts.
~~payal~~

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Touch-me-not

                                                                                                                                               2015 image, Goa




Ah! These pretty flowers
hurt-me-not
please-me-not
I so love these
touch-me-nots
~~payal~~

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"Try" - haiku time

                                                     2013 image, Goa




Frozen symphonies
create amusing patterns.
Please try not to judge.
~~payal~~

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Grace

 
                                                                                                                                 image 2015, Goa


"Keep me reasonably sweet; I do not want to be a saint- some of them are so hard to live with- but a sour old person is the crowning work of the devil. Give me the ability to see good things in unexpected places, and talents in unexpected people. And give me Lord the grace to tell them so."~17th century nun's prayer

This is the 17th century nun's prayer that I found on the wall of my favourite place, St. John of God Convent where we went today to meet our friends Sr. Soraya and Sr. Fatima. Sr. Fatima told me that I had missed an exhibition that happened last month in which they exhibited their entire lives through charts and now they have dismantled it and sent it to Daman. She was excited while telling about the way their stall kept them busy and how they had made a tree with leaves of thoughts on them, like "God Loves You.", and asked people to pluck one. Interesting! They always find a way to spread happiness! :)
~~payal~~
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A cup of tea


 
 
Tea leaves were swirling in pool of hot water and milk. Its’ refreshing aroma was inviting. When tea was ready, Sher Singh poured it in an aluminium kettle and started serving it in kulhar to the old men sitting on wooden bench near the tea stall, talking and laughing. Tea added special flavour to the olden days charm and relationships.

 Many college students were drinking their cup of tea, as purity of thoughts sealed in fortress of transparent malleable dreams, while celebrating youth and preparing for future.

 An observer, plucked some moments from celebrations, as tea leaves told the story.
~~payal~~
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Circles


                                                                                                                                                                           2014 image, Goa
 
 
Echoing circles

wake me up from deep slumber

Dreams unlimited.
~~payal~~