Chase the Stories
For as long as I can remember, arts, crafts, gardening, sewing, baking, writing – all things creative – have held a kind of magic and innocence to me. I enjoy creating. Who doesn’t love the glint of light reflected off the shiny red handles of the metal scissors used in grade school? The smell of…
When in my 30s, I felt so tired. Tired of adapting and surrendering. Tired of trying to fit in, tired of complying and of trying to please. I’m me… I said, so why is there a need to appease?! At one point, I didn’t even realize, but I had given up thinking about the world….
മുറ്റം നിറയെ മരങ്ങളും ചെടികളും. ചാമ്പ, വാഴ, വടുകപ്പുളി, വേപ്പ്, തുടങ്ങി പനിനീർ, നാലുമണി, പത്തുമണി, ഡാലിയ എന്നിവയാൽ നിറഞ്ഞു നിൽക്കുന്ന മുറ്റം. മുൻപിൽ മതിലിനോട് ചേർന്ന് നിൽക്കുന്ന കുളം. അതിൽ നിറയെ ആമ്പലും ചെറിയ മീനുകളും, പിന്നെ ഇലകൾക്കടിയിൽ പതുങ്ങിയിരിക്കുന്ന തവളകളും. ചെറുതാണെങ്കിലും കാണാൻ നല്ല ഭംഗിയുള്ള കുളം. ചുറ്റും പച്ചപ്പുല്ലുകൾ പരവതാനി വിരിച്ച പോലെ വളർന്നു നിൽക്കുന്നു. ചേമ്പ് വർഗ്ഗത്തിൽ പെട്ട ചെടികൾ മുറ്റത്തിൻ്റെ ഒരു വശത്തായി വാസമുറപ്പിച്ചിരുന്നു. കരിങ്കല്ലുകൊണ്ട് പണികഴിപ്പിച്ച മതിൽ. ഗേറ്റിനു…
For those of you who don’t know, I work in a library. We have all genres of books carefully filed, but, hidden against the back wall of our fiction section, are the shelves of paperbacks. When I’m looking for something to read, I always migrate back there. I have always been and will always be…
If I had to imagine the shape of our imperfect love story, it would be a spiral. You know the ones that start from a single point and roam around in many little circles, round and round till your head spins. It’s funny how it all begins from one tiny interaction, one sudden eye contact,…
I like to believe that inside each human being is a balance, one side for everything painful, and one side for everything good, the winning side is the side which becomes the glasses you look to the world through, making you the person you are, and controlling your thoughts. In our lives there are so…
I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an architect building a house. They know how many rooms are going to be in the house, what kind of roof they’re going to have, where the wires are going to run, what kind…
I’ve come a long way….. …..From the fulfilling coziness of my Mother’s lap, to feeling lost amid the whole wide world. From learning from my Father to take tiny footsteps, to speeding past fast lanes…alone. From warm and comforting lullabies, to unsettling and painful renditions. From expressing colorful dreams in crayons, to venting heartbreaks in…
The world is filled with possibilities. It was made that way. You live and move and have your being in a special state of open-endedness. Like most freedoms, your choices are hedged in by parameters set outside of you, but creativity and self-expression can grow strong and beautiful on the trellis, that is our universe….
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Love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are far away… and this shows that the space around you is beginning to grow vast…. be happy about your growth, in which of course you can’t take anyone with you, and be gentle with…
An ingenious code is hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci. A desperate race through the cathedrals and castles of Europe. An astonishing truth concealed for centuries…unveiled at last. While in Paris, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is awakened by a phone call in the dead of the night. The elderly curator of the Louvre…
The human mind is very intriguingly complicated. It has a tremendous capacity to reach out far and wide, but at the same time not able to get the grasp of things so close at many times. Be it the relationship among the family members, colleagues or anyone in the social milieu, there is a pattern…
Phobia means, an extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something. Athazagoraphobia is the fear of being forgotten or ignored and fear of forgetting. Many specific phobias can be traced back to a specific triggering event, usually a traumatic experience at some point of life. It is believed that heredity, genetics, and brain chemistry…
I knew that she loved me but I also knew that she deserved someone better than me in every aspect. So I lied to her..that I never ever imagined to be in love with her..and thus the story ended before it even got started… Just some outpour of thoughts in intricately woven words. Expressions from lovers of imagination and…
A wise man sat in the audience and cracked a joke. Everybody laughs like crazy. After a moment, he cracked the same joke again. This time, fewer people laughed. He cracked the same joke again and again. When there is no laughter in the crowd, he smiled and said: “You can’t laugh at the same joke…
Just some outpour of thoughts in intricately woven words. Expressions from lovers of imagination and their love for writing. Writings that shake and wake you, make you think, stir your soul, leave an imprint. Just some mellifluous bits- their wordbytes. Wanna be a wordmate? Connect with us and transform your thoughts into words…If you’re interested in contributing contents…
I threaded their words – piece by piece, trying to connect the loopholes to sew a fabric of remedy. I gather the massive piles of conflicts; to soak them in a basin of comprehensive detergents, letting the stains of redundant mistakes be washed away from the ruins of veracity, but they vanish. Was their existence…
The best kind of people are the ones that come into your life and make you see sun where you once saw clouds. The people that believe in you so much, you start to believe in you too. The people that love you simply for being you. The once in a lifetime kind of people….
A novel about holding on, letting go, and learning to love again. Meaningful, moving and magical – the classic bestselling love story. Everyone needs a guardian angel. Some people wait their whole lives to find their soul mates. But not Holly and Gerry. Childhood sweethearts, they could finish each other’s sentences and even when they…
