I have always felt that the Monday blahs weren’t real. A few hit songs about how Mondays are depressing stayed within the public consciousness and took root. Thus, many people hate Mondays. And, yes Sundays and Mondays are supposedly the days of the week people for the most […]
Last night I kept dreaming of the number 43. It kept going on and on in my mind. The 43 boomed and glared. It was vivid. Yet, that was one of my least vivid dreams. Night after night I’ve been having vivid dreams. Wild dreams, bordering on lucid. […]
Have you seen the movie Holes? It’s funny. If you are in the right mood. But there are many life lessons in it that can apply to this day and age. There’s one scene and one line that stays in everyone’s head. The little girl tells her grandpa […]
She really wished she had access to fairy dust that she could sprinkle everywhere making people bend to her wishes. Well, and making people happy as well. She could easily dream of skipping around the neighborhood sprinkling good will. Instead, she was trapped in this bathroom sipping on […]
I’m typically ok with gray and nuance. But I also thrive on data. I like making informed decisions. But this year, informed decisions have been hard to come by. And, this year data really mattered. Matters. And, it’s like the world is just saying “too bad”. Data is […]
Dream, dream, dream Give in to to the breaking seams Practice what I preach My mind has been breached Doubt, chaos, and curiosity It all feels like grand monstrosity Evil can be banal Swimming in a pitted canal Heart racing Bracing Standing on a fiercely moving windmill Can’t […]
I am a very messy person. I try to neaten up every week and within minutes, I clutter things up again. I like a good mess. Not a bad mess, mind you. Sometimes, the mess is just too messy and you startle yourself into some kind of cleaning […]
My mom loved election day. She loved voting. She truly cared and felt her vote counted. Or that she wanted it to count. Had she still been alive for this election, I know she would have stood happily in those lines. Election day often fell on her birthday […]
This year has been an exercise in turning the sound down. Ignoring the noise. This much-needed exercise for me has been at the personal, professional, and societal level. Earlier this year, a dear friend tried to calm me down by telling me to ignore a particular person who […]
I recently recalled a tense situation from over five years back. It was a room filled with people who didn’t want to be there and a woman who was gruff and angry spilling her anger over everyone. I remember telling myself repeatedly that the situation would eventually end. […]
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