Monthly archives: September, 2016

Rejection Is Not A Dead End

An email containing words of rejection for one of my submitted articles, prompted me to pen my thoughts over it. While extremely disappointed and sad over this event, as I spent my Monday morning pondering about what went wrong, I realized that the sorrow was interfering with my future course of work. Though rejection spelt …

My First True Perception of Light

“Jagged vacance thick with ice”: By happenstance I stumble upon an opal acre, a frosted wheat field forgotten during harvest season. Tamest Winter, what a visionary is She: Her tawny sea, adorned in glassy dew-drop pearls, sways to the melody of my elevated thoughts. Her sunbeams sing across the diamond plain: Nature’s truest complexion is …

Dream and Dare

Dreams are reflection of our imagination. Many a times, when we think about a particular aspect for more than usual, we visualize their occurrence in our dreams. While dreams imagined during our sleep are involuntary activities beyond our control, there are many dreams that we desire and wish for by our own will. Also labelled …

Head Full of Sugar

You uniformly rise from your bed, pleased to not be dead. Like others, you line your body with threads, only there’s sugar in your head. Coffee abound for your daily grind— —as it brews you open the blinds to reveal that yesterday’s well-behind. But sugar and fog plague your mind. How do you remember aeons …

Dear Heavenly Father

Dear Heavenly Father please hear your peoples cries many with salty tears in their eyes Well all have something for which to atone and are thankful for the tender mercy on us you have shown On this Sat. we shall pray for justice and peace and from Satan’s mental bondage we pray for our release …

Let Go

I love you does not mean I own you. It does not mean I’m so afraid to lose you I must control you. I’ll hold you in my heart even as it pains me to watch you wander. I’ll hold you in my arms until you ask me to let go. -Reese Leyva reeseleyva.com

Define Your Own Pace

If we observe our lifestyles closely, we will realize that every life story has its own set of tasks, responsibilities, duties and mannerism. Though our roles and responsibilities may vary with differences in the nature of work, we all are united by the common thread of ‘hard work’. Be it domestic activities pertaining to the …

My Bag of Rice – Things That are True pt7

Sometimes God’s miraculous provision… is rice. The world crashes in.  It’s that moment when we’re at the very end of every resource. Most recently for me, it was this very real situation:  no gas in the tank with meetings all over the city, no food left in the house, no dogfood for the pup, no …