The Idea-smithy

My blog’s god-father tags me to post a photograph taken this year with the instructions that it be,
One photo that you have clicked this year that is special to you. Could be anything…aesthetic, technical or personal. Also, put in a short note why it is special.
So here is the memorable photograph of this year. Quite [...]

In the Snake Woman issue that I read, Jessica says:
Maybe that’s what growing up is….realizing the things we do don’t mean anything. Things aren’t right or wrong. They’re just impulses. They just are.
Or perhaps in the grander scheme of things, beyond everyday breaths, in an entire lifetime some things cease to matter. Even within one [...]

Had a thought – a few actually – in the last fortnight, that I haven’t had a chance to put down.
I saw this movie and thought,
I see ghosts too. They hurt me sometimes. They talk to me. They walk around like everyone else. They are the ghosts of my past.
And then perhaps, as with Cole, [...]

There’s nothing more disconcerting than encountering a problem that you thought you’d solved a long time ago. Makes you wonder if when they say that life is cylic, they mean it just keeps going around in circles.

Ever wondered if your own life was nothing but the script for a really bad movie…and wanted to throttle the writer’s neck…till you realised you were holding the pen…and writing in a language you didn’t recognize?

Can you fall in love over and over again?

Or it is just waking up to the same love every morning, albeit with a different face and name?
Who are we really having an affair with? Other people? Or with that one frame that we hold up to the world and give it the name of whoever [...]

Ever met someone who reminds you strongly, sharply of someone else? Even when they don’t look alike, sound alike or seem to have anything in common? What about situations that seem to keep repeating over and over again? We date the same kind of person, our spouses remind us of our teachers, our friends treat [...]