of Gratefulness and December

Hello Peeps, I've been gone but have been here all the time:). Hope you have been well too!

It's December calling—a month on a kind of default-setting of summaries, salutations, rumination, hope, gratitude, feeling settled, baking, waking up to the urgency of planning our holiday, questioning my comfort cocoon that built-up in the year and a-note-to-self to tease me out of it in the next visible time-frame. 

December is also the month when my boy-child rounds off another year of being in our life and yes all that benign beauty of Christmas.

As I write this post there are seven other things that I am reminded of, that I need to attend to, that needed to have been started (or closed) yesterday—feeling the sudden rush of the week sliding into it's second-run in the month. WE HAVE YET TO PUT UP THE TREE !! and the birthday party, and  the holiday checklist...!

So as I clicked some random morning frames, I thought of you and many others who so frequently stop by, read, comment or just send me love ('n Likes) that helps me write a few more posts through the year. And so today it is my turn to reciprocate a big THANK YOU and send you a grateful Namaste as I blow you a wish for many islands of calm and Being, amidst the rush of checklists, resolutions and the all-consuming-Doing.

 

  

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Did you miss my article on Huffpost on Diwali DIYs !

Please read : http://www.huffingtonpost.in/homzin/8-ways-to-get-your-home-d_b_8449332.html?utm_hp_ref=india

On my way to Yoga on Diwali day

Trust you had a wonderfully lit Diwali. Have a Year ahead full of lightness & glow!

I ended up spending time with the two boys in my life in one of the most beautiful hotels in luscious Goa. Didn't really click pictures with an intent to post though am sharing some, more to be able to rewind later - for my own self.

Never imagined that simple leaves in an Uruli can create such magic

Beautiful floral Rangolis were created overnight, in every possible open public space that the hotel has. Yes, we were met with such resplendent glory on the Diwali morning

At the Foyer

Beautiful Bliss 

Colors @ home today

Inspired by the undying colors of the roses in my Uruli

My Day in a FRame

Was one of those days - a Sunday, in a timeless sort of rhythm;
my 5-yr old and me, and an inexplicable lethargic spontaneity
waiting to burst into some expression!

The urge almost weighing me down and out of any habitual activity
(dusting, ironing, making breakfast and you know the rest),
"are you crazy to waste away in the mundane today?!!"
on a morning awash in the willfully shaded rooms, with the Sun blazing away beyond my curtains.

I took the colors out (somewhat gingerly)
and everything else that was meant to be,
and with another inexplicable urge made myself a cup-pa Coffee (i am strictly a Tea person)
Decided to give-in to the Day.

some Days are better left unquestioned or simply, just surrendered to.

I feel rested now : Afternoon Sunday, July 5, 2013

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