Left - The only thing on the Wrong side of Right
Monday, August 18, 2025
Mom's birthday August 18 2025
Monday, August 11, 2025
Hearst Castle
Thursday, August 07, 2025
haiku from Hearst castle
Thursday, January 16, 2025
welcoming 2025
A new day dawns,
As renewed sunshine no.
Here ends the year of Twenty and four,
Its 2025 now, to the fore.
An year of vice voices and votes,
Of rising prices, and of currency notes.
When inflation deflated many an incumbent,
Demagoguery remained ascendent.
Facts and fictions
Now coexist in fractions
Friction gains traction
When we pick our faction.
An year with wars all around,
As hopes for world peace run aground.
We all gazed to witness Gaza razed,
Is motherland dazed, is Ukraine unfazed?
What will the future bring
For whom will the bell ring!
Will we have the strength to condone,
Will we stand united or fall alone!
It was an year of loss and lament,
For silent statesmen, and humble chairmen
Arts' stalwarts and society's stars,
The owners of woh Taj, and Wah Taj!
Will this be the year of AI?
Are we doomed between Aye-Aye and bye-bye?
As it vacillates between elucidate or hallucinate,
Exacerbate or eXterminate!
There is still but hope,
The optimists' eternal trope
For a fresh bloom
Amidst all the gloom.
A new sun is upon us,
May he shine bright
It's the end of the tunnel,
And we see the light.
May we find a fresh resolve
Let our despair dissolve.
Amidst talk of boom and doom
Weave our dreams on hope's loom.
May this year ignite a spark
Dispel the fear of a night dark
May we find roads less traveled
And discover passions unrivaled, unraveled.
May we find common dreams to unite us
May we forge bonds that untie us
May we find unique words to define us
May we break the cages that confine us.
May the start of the new year
Bring a new music to our ear
An wiser mind, and a younger heart
Let's welcome a new start.
Happy 2025!
Thursday, February 17, 2022
Aryan and Meena - rhymes with Nanna
We are going on a drive,
For miles twenty five,
Listening to radio live
into 680 South, we dive!
We stop at red light!
The day is bright.
Meena wants to bite,
Nanna says dont fight!
We traveled too far,
In our mazda car,
We're stuck in a jam,
that's not in a jar.
Sunday, December 26, 2021
Welcoming 2022
It's a day of joy and cheer,
The backend bookend for the year.
When Santa comes in his sleigh with deer
The future adorns a hopeful veneer.
The past fades, in a snap,
those fleeting, ephemeral stories.
Do they empower or do they sap?
those fading humors, horrors and furies.
A new Sun hides, just beyond the veil
with new stakes for every head and tail.
What will you take a chance on?
To feel, to seal or to heal!
So lets mask our fears,
and mend our tears.
Store away our rage,
and restore our courage.
Lets bring out the fireworks
and mark our runups.
Wax poetic on our dreams
while we bury viral rivalries.
Lets engage with another year
A New Year, with a kind ear
with a diverse vision
not endless division.
Lets start something truly new
And welcome 2022!
Tuesday, December 31, 2019
Welcoming 2020
I have lamented multiple times, to same and different people, that the times are moving too fast. I am no Einstein, but as things move faster, time should slow down. But these days, life is moving fast, and so does time. May be I have stopped perceiving time, stopped to stoop and smell the flowers, stopped to marvel at the life around, stopped to revel in nothingness, stopped to ... stop. I miss writing, I miss inspirations, I have become a passive observer of things, and letting life flow through me, rather than taking life for a ride. So, I will try make amends. I will try making resolutions, and try keeping them. And you keep me honest.
My Resolutions:
1. Take time to update the blog - atleast once every 2 weeks (may be every pay day).
2. Connect and Reconnect with friends and extended family.
3. Play tennis atleast once a week - anywhere.
4. Go to gym for 30 minutes atleast twice a week.
5. Learn something new every couple of months [even simple things].
6. Start volunteering.
So, here's to stopping to smell the roses, writing a blog on it, telling my cousins about it, and my new tennis / gym partners, may be learn to grow a rose tree and teaching that to school kids.
BIG GOALS.... Baby steps. Wish me luck.