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How Grief can help us find our purpose.
This coaching case left a deep impact on me for two reasons. — The person I was coaching was my relative and the funeral we both were at of a common relative, which offered both of us the needed pause and perspective. This common relative was a 27-year-old girl whose life was cut short by…
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Healing through Bougainvillea.
This plant is as old as my grief and today it is in full bloom, laden with flowers so much so that I find it difficult to attempt to prune the over long stems that are penetrating the walls and boundaries, for every branch is blooming with flowers . Many years ago, almost a decade…
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I sat in my Silence
I sat in my silence As I stood here, deeply reflecting under my Copper Pod tree, sharing with you the wisdom it bestowed upon me, besides the poetry which I have already cited above. Wisdom from My Copper Pod tree; —As the leaves falls, how easy it is to let go, and embrace the reality…
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Resilience learnt from an abandoned water body.
This water body is few of the last leftover ponds in Hyderabad, which is not yet replaced by a concrete jungle of skyscrapers. Ironically it is the climate crisis that the government has never been so serious about revitalizing water bodies yet given their hardwired approach full of complacency and apathy, this is taking time…
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Finding Peace in Nature’s Resilience
It is one of those beautiful days of a winter season when everything seems to be aligned in a moderate way, the sun does not hurt, is more inviting and the environment is filled with sounds and songs of the birds. Who knows among these flying creatures are even those birds who may have migrated…