Hazy Vision

joy knows not - where support comes from, when hazy vision blurs - hands that hold, underlying mayhem Growing up - a clear vision of what happened then… https://only100words.xyz/2020/11/19/three-line-tales-251/

Over the Top

The prompt reminds me of a female client in the bank where I worked. She was related to a big industrialist family. They prospered with support from the uncles by way of lucrative employment, business opportunities and generous monthly allowances. She would walk in pompously, and plonk her designer handbag on the table. Her ample …

Lucidity

Discomfort often drives me to my grandmother’s place. The complexity of my web of thoughts gets slowly disentangled with the lucidity of the conversation. I’m told there were no life coaches in her times. Just wonder where did she get it all from… https://sammiscribbles.wordpress.com/2020/10/17/weekend-writing-prompt-179-lucid/

What a pandemic

I am a museum full of art, and a deck full of music, but…. Expression will open many sealed boxes, and offend those who are exposed. I shake it all up to see if bitterness can be released. Something is released but evaporates, before I can catch it to identify and destroy. Now, it’s all …

What lies around the corner?

Elizabeth Gilbert famously spoke out battling two horses every morning - Fate, which cannot be controlled Free Will, which can be steered in the right direction Choosing the second horse is a no-brainer, since we have no control on the first. And maybe, the second can manipulate the first. But life shows us different scenarios, …

Neighbour

They used to be friends till they got infected, but did not inform the administration.  They are supposed to be quarantined, but did they step out? I don’t step out and I don’t know, yet they are in the ring of suspicion. What will happen after the crisis ends? Can we be friends again? I …

Reading

Sharing a few thoughts and techniques on Reading .... A busy mind is not a receptive mind. We read in blocks, and a lot is quickly absorbed, because it is anticipated. At times, these preconceived anticipation can interfere with what the author is trying to say. A small exercise to declutter your mind before reading …

Premonitions

Yesterday, a friend lost his father. The parents were in India, while all four children are in other countries. None of them could reach for the funeral. He recounted that on his last visit home in December, his father's parting words were, "Will you come to perform my last rites?" My father-in-law was shifted to …

Transported

The future beckons, however attractive or difficult it seems at this point of time. Yes, we will be free – to drive around, work, meet people, shop, eat out. But the awareness of shackled feet intimidates. The psyche will surely carry imprints from this phase. Uncertainty will loom large, as newer methods of violence and …

Slices of life

Slices of life capture attention for the intensity they can portray. Movies without a storyline become huge commercial successes. Somewhere down the road, we ignored connectors, pieces that bring continuity. Only the soul knows how… https://sammiscribbles.wordpress.com/2020/03/28/weekend-writing-prompt-150-continuity/