Life Update
Monsoon has finally kickstarted here and that has translated into me spending a lot more time indoors. Interestingly, being indoors has helped me extend a greater sense of awareness towards mindful/slow moments at home. I am planning to share images of some of these moments on Instagram (and the blog too perhaps).
Being indoors was also just what I needed to get back to posting about style/fashion on the blog again. I hadn’t realized it, but more than a year had passed since I last posted about style/fashion on the blog. Every time I’ve tried to, I felt a sense of resistance. During these past few months, I gravitated more towards writing about mindfulness and travel. For the most part, my approach has been to extend acceptance towards this, and slowly, that resistance has eased. Getting back to it all has felt great.
New On The Blog
The Intersectionality Of Mindfulness, Self-care, Sustainable Living, And Ethical Living
A short essay on why I see self-care, sustainable living, and ethical living as components of a mindful life.
First Purchase Of 2020
A short essay about my first purchase of the year; an elegant yet simple white Kurta from FabIndia.
From The Archive
Injustice: The Systems That Beget It And Where To Find Hope
Thoughts on the injustice that surrounds us, the systems that beget it, and where we can find hope.
A Deeper Understanding of Travel
After avoiding air-travel for a year, I share the lessons I learned along with images from my most recent trip to Chennai.
Album Of The Month
I first discovered Jack Johnson when a friend of mine recommended his music to me back in the early 2000s. ‘Brushfire Fairytales’ is one of my favorite albums of his. I’m not entirely sure why, but it always reminds me of monsoon. Maybe it is the album art or perhaps the fact that I first heard the album during monsoon. As I’ve often done over the years, I’ve been revisiting this album through the monsoon season.
Key tracks:
1. Inaudible Memories
2. Losing Hope
3. Flake
Book Of The Month
Reading about the lives of interesting and inspiring people and their experiences and lessons is definitely one of my favorite kind of reading to do. One of the people I’ve looked up to for a long time has been our former President and pioneer scientist, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. I’d been meaning to read his book, “Learning how to fly: Lessons for the youth” for a while. In the book he walks us through his journey over multiple decades, sharing lessons on creativity, leadership, learning, healing, empathy, and more.
“stop seeking in others, what you hold within. learn to love, but start with yourself.”
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