04 October, 2011

While you are waiting



Goddess Uma


While I met my husband when I was just 21, a lot of my friends who are now entering their 30's are still looking for Mr.Right, and society especially Indian society certainly does not make it easier for them, and nor does facebook, with its pictures and pictures of happy couples, exotic holidays and babies, not everyone can feel sympathetic joy when they are going through unsure times.....
I ache and feel for my friends even though I've been married for some years now, I wish I could do something to assure them that everything will be fine, and they will meet the right person and they will just know it with each passing day of their lives....and so I wanted to share with my woman friends Meadow Linn's blog,
'Savour the Day', I happened to find Meadow's blog while browsing thorugh her mother, Denise Linn's website (I adore her mother for her book 'Sacred Space').

I identify with Meadow on one common ground, how she lives her life in creative colourful celebration, expressing it through her love for food. Check out her recipes and delicious photos to go with them at the end of each post.....

Most of the times, I can be quite the introspective bear, and I balance that side of me as I process my thoughts and emotions and do something creative and useful with my life no matter what is going on in the background :-) be it with my art-practise, cooking a lovely meal, re-arranging the look of my home, a small kind gesture for a friend, any creative act becomes a source of joy and can transform the initial pain or worries into an acceptance of life's mysteries through the path of creative living.

I always say to my friends, no matter even if you have the most loving and healthiest of relationships / marriages you still have to learn to be with yourself, and know who
you are, or else you'll just be lost for at least a decade in playing your different roles of good worker, mother, lover, wife, friend....and then suddenly you'll ask you're self, who is the real me?

Everyone is an artist of life, all my woman friends are great cooks, lovers, sisters, daughters, weaving together the tapestry of life as only a woman can with her intuitive nurturing wisdom that only grows with age.... :-) like a gnarled old tree or fine wine :-)

Marriage has brought with it it's own challenges, and today I read in Dr.Wayne W.Dyer's book, 'You'll see it when you believe it', that, "
We often love someone who represents an undeveloped part of ourselves". Now I'm sure this sentence will mean different things to different persons....

take care lovely ladies, sleeping Goddesses waiting to be awakened :-)

love + light
x

27 September, 2011

Tree spirit


Dreamin'
Originally uploaded by kidrdaso

One day I hope to find my own tree, under whose shade I can just be me :-)
I already do feel close to a rain-tree where my parents' live, its twisted branches are so familiar to me from years of looking at from the window and playing hide and seek as a child around it's trunk....
may there be more trees amongst us
we need our tree-spirit friends

love + light
x

25 September, 2011

Owl


Owl
Originally uploaded by Shailendra Pandey

awww....what a sweet pair!
love owls 4ever!

love + light
x

21 September, 2011

Buddha image from Alchi Monastery, Ladakh



It is my dream to one day visit Alchi Monastery in Ladakh, sigh! I came upon this beautiful image of Sakyamuni Buddha on Buddhist Art News, click here to see more images. On reading the article I was happy to know in advance that photography isn't allowed inside, that way I won't feel disapointed when one fine day I actually do visit Alchi Monastery, I imagine I can always sketch what inspires me... which I find is a much better way to appreciate and assimilate art :-)


love + light
x

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