Welcome to Week 30! 30 is growing up. 30 is the connecting point between the follies of youth, and a dawning of what seems like maturity. With corporate spans turning shorter, 30 starts a reverse count – how many years more to becoming the CEO? Or where do I go from here, if I am … Continue reading Reena’s Exploration Challenge #Week 30
The prompt word this week is CEILINGS PICTURE PROMPT Feel free to write whatever comes to mind – poem, story, free format writing, personal reflections, memoirs, anecdotes -- and link up to this post. LAST WEEK’S ROUND UP Hecblogger at http://playingwithwords.blog/2018/03/16/reverie/ Eugenia at http://amanpan.com/2018/03/16/order-of-the-day/ Michael at http://summerstommy.com/2018/03/18/reenas-exploration-challenge-week-28/ Reena Saxena at https://reinventionsreena.wordpress.com/2018/03/19/the-beauty-of-idleness/
I chose an Erasure poem for the Exploration Challenge this week. In a way, it symbolizes leisure - being creative, but lazy to create, taking time in picking out the right words from a literary piece. We get such a kick in being conflicted we lost leisure no feeling for cultic celebration a-musical … Continue reading The Beauty of Idleness
The Slow Movement never really appealed to me. It effectively means being left behind. Why spend so much time on one activity, when I could do a lot more? It changed when I read a review of Joseph Pieper’s book – Leisure, the Basis of Culture. Perhaps, childhood memories are so vivid for we were … Continue reading Reena’s Exploration Challenge #Week 28
She woke up one fine morning, and the nagging pain had disappeared. It was a tremendous relief. It looked like the new medicine was indeed effective. The week ahead was busy. The physiotherapist called for an appointment, but she terminated the arrangement. The waist belts, hot water bottles, therapy magnets, herbal oils all had to … Continue reading Pain
It’s been a hectic day, and I managed to float through, without getting involved in the Women’s Day celebrations all around. I don’t want to feel and do something that I am supposed to do. And I don’t feel any excitement inside. The glaring truths do not change. Eulogistic greetings are bartered for future complicity … Continue reading Reena’s Exploration Challenge #Week 27
"The fact that I myself, at the moment of painting, do not understand my own pictures, does not mean that these pictures have no meaning; on the contrary, their meaning is so profound, complex, coherent, and involuntary that it escapes the most simple analysis of logical intuition." Salvador Dali imagination recreating inner worlds or … Continue reading Surreal
I came across something called Switchwords – for chanting three times a day, to achieve positive results. It falls in the category of ‘subconscious re-imprinting’, and I am inclined to believe in the power of words. I did not achieve the results I wanted, which was ascribed to ‘my lack of faith’. A closer analysis … Continue reading Reena’s Exploration Challenge #Week 26
In the initial stages of my banking career, I was taught how to tally signatures on a cheque, when in doubt. The cheque is to be held upside down. The strokes and slants show better in the reverse position, and can be compared with the original specimen signature. The technique stuck on in the subconscious. … Continue reading Upside Down
Welcome to Week 25! We have a collage this week, but I am sure it will make the writers think. Feel free to write whatever comes to mind – poem, story, free format writing, personal reflections, memoirs, anecdotes -- and link up to this post. NOTE: There will be no challenge next week, as I … Continue reading Reena’s Exploration Challenge #Week 25
Creative Experiments and More 