Author: Reena Saxena

This week Reena invites us to consider a few quotes as our starting point. I chose this one;

“There was rarely an obvious branching point in a person’s life. People changed slowly, over time. You didn’t take one step, then find yourself in a completely new location. You first took a little step off the path to avoid some rocks. For a while, you walked alongside the path, but then you wandered out a little way to step on softer soil. Then you stopped paying attention as you drifted farther and farther away. Finally, you found yourself in the wrong city, wondering why the signs on the roadway hadn’t led you better.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Emperor’s Soul

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From where we start to where we end

The journey in never a straight line, clearly defined

Every little thing that happens plays a part

Small missteps, detours and failed shortcuts

Reena’s Xploration Challenge #276

Various AI tools for writing
For my lazy brain, are inviting
Will they take forever
Leave the brain lackluster
The very thought is terrorizing

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When the sage Ved-Vyasa (“the one who classified the Vedas”), decided to compose the story of the battle between the Kauravas and the Pandavas for the throne of Hastinapur, the longest-known epic poem of ancient India.

The great-grandfather Brahma, the creator of the universe, told Shree Ganesh (God of intellect and wisdom. Also as the god of beginnings, Shree Ganesh is honored at the start of rites and ceremonies in Hindu culture ) to write down the stanzas recited by Vyasa.

Ganapati agreed to write only if Vyasa would never pause in his recitation. Vyasa also imposed the condition that Ganapati must take time to understand what was said before writing because he will not be allowed to rewrite.

Ganapati agreed…

“There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I’m born to leave.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

Wandering,

in the midst,

eclipsed amongst crowds,

feel safe among unknowns,

a point that revolves back,

an afternoon,

long forgotten,

in summer’s blisterik* heat,

momentous euphoria,

casting its wings,

on parched souls.

Emptiness,

stark naked,

in wholesome fields,

daylight captures,

moonlit night,

riding on,

fireflies wings,

solitary dreams,

held together,

in web of,

gossamer light.

55 words

blisterik* :- my invented word, which means scorching.

Linking it to writephoto challenge hosted by KL Caley, the above photo is the prompt and also OLN at dVerse.

Na Po Wri Mo day 21 guidelines :-

Choose an abstract noun from the list below, and…

Our challenge was to choose among an assortment of quotes for writing inspiration. I chose the one below.

“There was rarely an obvious branching point in a person’s life. People changed slowly, over time. You didn’t take one step, then find yourself in a completely new location. You first took a little step off the path to avoid some rocks. For a while, you walked alongside the path, but then you wandered out a little way to step on softer soil. Then you stopped paying attention as you drifted farther and farther away. Finally, you found yourself in the wrong city, wondering why the signs on the roadway hadn’t led you better.”
―Brandon Sanderson,The Emperor’s Soul

Guilda turned off the radio and sighed. When, or more importantly how, had the World gotten turned upside down?
Was she just too old to understand what progress looked like? Were…

Inspired by Reena’s Exploration Challenge #277 – Inspiring Quote
& Moonwashed Weekly Prompt #139 – Serene

“We all want to break our orbits, float like a satellite gone wild in space, run the risk of disintegration. We all want to take our lives in our own hands and hurl them out among the stars.”
― David Bottoms

at times serene 
self-discovery can also be 
an adventure 
and one, mostly tumultuous  

once the pieces have split apart 
and been put back together 
in necessary 0rder 
life becomes more than survival 
     then  
         we are really alive 

In 1680, the French 17th-century philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal had his Penseés (Thoughts) published, and since he died in 1672, this was assembled posthumously.  It is a collection of some 800 to 1,000 notes and manuscript fragments on theology and philosophy, expressing his religious beliefs.  Pascal explored the contradictions of human nature in psychological, social, metaphysical and theological terms, while defining the human condition using three words: boredom, inconstancy and anxiety.  Mankind emerges from Pascal’s analysis as a wretched and desolate creature within an impersonal universe, but hope is still there as anyone can be transformed through faith in God’s grace.

In this work Pascal wrote, “The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.”  Pascal probably meant that truth and reason not only come from what we see and hear, but also from what we feel in our heart.  Since this was in French, it is difficult to know…