Welcome back! Complexity is a lot like freedom – everybody knows what it is, but cannot tell. The author of this quote was not talking of writers and poets. For they sure can tell. PROMPT #168 Well, there are more terms and conditions in this prompt than any other episode of the Exploration Challenge. Enjoy … More Reena’s Exploration Challenge #168
I woke up in 2021… To a world more complex than it has been Where fear separates, not unites Where a hurriedly put together remedy to unprecedented ailments divides people into camps Where Presidents incite violence Where claustrophobia causes relationship breakdowns Where some pine for company, and others pray for solitude Where people are fleeced … More Where ….
Welcome to much-awaited 2021! Wish you all a very Happy New Year, brimming with creativity and more freedom than you had in the year that passed away! +1 is always good. 2020+1 seems better. I hope we are able to say Thank You, 2021 — You were the best. Well, we go ahead with the … More Reena’s Exploration Challenge #167
Welcome to the last Exploration Challenge of 2020! Yes, we will take a two week break, while your creativity flows in directions other than blogging. PROMPT #166 I’m employing a reverse strategy for the last prompt in this year. Here are two short pieces for the prompt. inkblots mutate to form pictures, alphabets, stories I … More Reena’s Exploration Challenge #166
vigour and fervour hands that clasp mine hold promises for a future Relaxed, I roam around waiting to be called back there is no sound… I come back to the cosy place an unfamiliar iron grip Rings alarms – it is too late I’m placed under house arrest a public speech, new promises there they … More Tightening grips
Welcome to winding up routines for 2020! We have got three more weeks to go. Time does not really wind up, but gives us these calendar breaks to reflect back and assess, analyse and plan ahead. What impacted our lives in 2020? A teeny weeny virus, and this will remain in collective memory for a … More Reena’s Exploration Challenge #165
Welcome to the last month of 2020! We’ve all hoped it ends soon, and I hope all of us are ending it on a note of hope. I throw open a question, before netizens take a break for the holidays. How can we change the format of this Challenge in 2021? I intend to continue … More Reena’s Exploration Challenge #164
I skip the news updates on Corona horrors and vaccine developments, except for the economic impact. I am not afraid of death. Yet, I think I’ve seen death closely than ever before – lurking in eyes, expressions, behaviour patterns, ostracisation of people considered unsafe ….making me fear it will continue as an obsessive compulsive disorder … More Death by Excess
Welcome back to explore the innermost recesses of our mind! PROMPT #163 We are getting ready for a re-lockdown here, after a sharp spike in the number of Covid cases. Here’s a video depicting a let’s interpretation of life in lockdown. https://aeon.co/videos/lean-into-loneliness-like-it-is-holding-you-a-poetic-reflection-on-life-in-lockdown Take us into your inner world., and let us see how you view … More Reena’s Exploration Challenge #163
He remembers a sense of unease in company right from childhood. He would be full of enthusiasm for a new experience, but find himself at the other end of strange looks. There was something that others could not relate to, and preferred staying away. He attached no great value to relationships – he was so … More In a place I (don’t) wanna be
