Conversations over chai #4
It’s been long since we met. Not sure about you but I do feel that. It’s a Sunday morning and 5:50AM. Feels like I am jet-lagged and I only travelled domestic to reach home last night. My tea is...
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We should always have three friends in our lives-one who walks ahead who we look up to and follow; one who walks beside us, who is with us every step of our journey; and then, one who we reach back...
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“Look up. Your answer is never going to be in the bottom of a glass.” ― Toni Sorenson After a very long time, along with my workout buddy UM, I went on a walk to a nearby forest reserve. On and off,...
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“Every day is a fresh start, a blank canvas to paint upon.” —Craig Sager Thursday Tree Love – 173 You are all not new to the African Tulip Tree. The fiery red blooms of African Tulip tree have made an...
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It was Onam a fortnight ago. A harvest festival of the state of Kerala in India. It’s the only festival in India that goes beyond religion, caste or community. Onam is a state festival which means...
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The things that I see as I walk along the streets — a little flower that blooms in May, a lovely sunset at the end of a day, someone helping a stranger along the way — that’s heaven to me. ~Sam Cooke...
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We only see what we want to see; we only hear what we want to hear. Our belief system is just like a mirror that only shows us what we believe. ~Don Miguel Ruiz Thursday Tree Love – 176 On my way to...
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“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched—they must be felt with the heart.” ~ Hellen Keller Just a few days ago, I was walking in my apartment complex. I had...
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“If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.”― Paulo Coelho I am not working these last few days of the year. I am meeting friends, ex-colleagues and folks I haven’t...
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No matter how hard the past is, you can always begin again. – Buddha Happy 2025 you all! I hope the first week of the year has been decent for you all so far. Like they say, it is just another Sun...
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“When you’ve learned to both see and not see the resemblance, then you see the uniqueness.”― Barbara Katz Rothman, ThursdayTreeLove – 180 Early in the month, my friend UM couldn’t join me for a walk....
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Life is about perspective and how you look at something… ultimately, you have to zoom out. ~ Whitney Wolfe Herd This weekend I went on a run and I was trying to find the same Banyan tree from 4 years...
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“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”– Abraham Lincoln Over the weekend, I stepped out with VT to go watch a few matches of the Bengaluru Open. The Karnataka State Lawn...
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“Whoever is happy will make others happy.” – Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl. ThursdayTreeLove – 183 I spotted another Yellow Tabebuia last week and this is the same tree from March 2023. I love...
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“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” ~ Thomas Jefferson Thursday Tree Love -184 I haven’t been able to write here and publish for over a month. I was just not able to...
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“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”...
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