Welcome back! I’ve been travelling, and the book currently in hand is “Everything is F---ed” by Mark Manson. I liked his earlier book “The Subtle Art of Not getting F---ed” too. The contents are weighing heavily on my mind. PROMPT 119 Imagine two sides/perspectives/characters/mind-sets with the following names: Thinking BrainFeeling Brain Write about how these … Continue reading Reena’s Exploration Challenge #119
Welcome to getting a little more entrenched in the new decade or the new year! Does it already feel stale, or is sparking new hopes within you? As you read these lines, I will be enjoying the opulence of an Indian wedding in a holiday resort. Another couple will enter an uncertain world, feeling certain … Continue reading Reena’s Exploration Challenge #118
Welcome to 2020, and hope things turn out fine despite the geo-political crisis risk that we are living through at the moment! The cover pic for the Exploration Challenge has changed. Some of you may find it a little subdued, watered down. For me, a selfie is symbolic of perspectives, frameworks, focus, backgrounds, merger of … Continue reading Reena’s Exploration Challenge #117
Welcome to the last Exploration Challenge of 2019! It will be good to take a break for the festive season, and restart in January on a new slate. Yes, I would like to change the cover pic. Suggestions are welcome. You can mail pictures (which are free of copyright and do not need accreditation) in … Continue reading Reena’s Exploration Challenge #116
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.George Eliot The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream. Kahlil Gibran This is the story of a … Continue reading When Time Stopped
Welcome to another soul-searching week! PROMPT I will come straight to the point, because the topic cannot be cushioned in flowery words and smart expressions. I choose the poem “Questionnaire” by Wendell Berry as a prompt. It is hard hitting, it is cold, it is dark, it is stark. QUESTIONNAIRE by Wendell Berry How much … Continue reading Reena’s Exploration Challenge #114
I stop in my trackson hearing sounds from beneath"We can't go furtherGoodbye, mate"... and I wonderhow many more steps for me? https://frankjtassone.com/2019/11/16/haikai-challenge-113-11-16-19-fallen-leaves-ochiba-haiku-senryu-haibun-tanka-haiga-renga/
Welcome to yet another brilliant week! I’m still reeling under the magic of multiple responses to multiple prompt words. I’m more than happy to see the creativity that flowed in, encompassing the prompt words, and intermittent spaces being filled up with brilliance. I can’t resist the temptation to repeat it at least once. So, here … Continue reading Reena’s Exploration Challenge #113
TANKA I kept searching for soul-stimulating music pockets of stillness skipped attention-emptiness needed new fillers I lost direction in questioning your maps-but that fulfilling sense of knowing more than you - still keeps me going to the brink insightful are those cynical assertions-which undermine you, yet drive me in the quest for truth to destinations … Continue reading Bits and bytes
concepts of normalneed to change- after a lifelived on borderlines https://frankjtassone.com/2019/11/10/haikai-challenge-112-11-10-19-veterans-day-beaver-moon-haiku-senryu-haibun-tanka-haiga-renga/
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