Gratitude #19- Kindness

Today’s prompt is another favourite, kindness šŸ’™ Kindness (along with presence) is the best gift we can offer another human being. It can make another person’s day, and might even stay with them for longer! Who knows, with repeated engagement with kindness around oneself, one’s faith in humanity might just be restored or one might…

Book Review: A Velocity of Being- Letters to a Young Reader

This is a book I wish I had while growing up. It would have been such a comfort to my soul! Every child (10 and up I suppose), and adult, who loves to read would enjoy this book as it’s essentially a 300 page ode to the joys of reading and the importance of books…

Gratitude #18- Books

My favourite prompt is here šŸ’™ It’s Day 18 in the ongoing 30 Days of Gratitude challenge, and today’s prompt from Positively Present is Books. For today’s post I’m recycling content from an earlier post on this blog. I’m grateful, today and everyday, for the breathtaking power of books. I’m grateful for the magic that…

Gratitude #17- Seasons

Day 17 of the 30 Days of Gratitude challenge is here, and today’s prompt is seasons. Today’s post is all photos and is dedicated to my little sister! All the pictures are from Australia where my sister is currently working, and where spring is giving way to summer right now! šŸƒ Thank you God for…

Gratitude #16- Magic

It’s Day 16, and today’s prompt is Magic. I know that the prompt ‘books’ is coming soon but the first thing that comes to my mind when I hear magic is ‘books’, so that’s what today’s post is on 🤷 I’m grateful for the magic words weave and the places they transport me to when…

Gratitude #15- Friendship

It’s Day 15 in the ongoing 30 Days of Gratitude challenge, and today’s prompt is friendship. It’s very fitting that today’s prompt is Friendship. After an extremely exhausting last week of the semester that ended today, a colleague invited us to her place this evening and there couldn’t have been a better way to wrap…

Gratitude #14- Time

It’s Day 14 of the ongoing 30 Days of Gratitude challenge by Positively Present, and today’s prompt is Time. Close to 10 years ago (9 years 4 months to be exact) my journey in Psychology began. Today I write this while I’m in the last stage of my PhD, about to submit my thesis in…

Gratitude #13- Colour

It’s Day 13 in the 30 Days of Gratitude challenge, and the prompt for today is Colour. I had a newfound appreciation for the role of colours in our life after reading the delightful book Joyful by Ingrid Lee Fetell last year. Before that my wardrobe and my interiors used to have predominantly monochromatic hues….

Gratitude #12- Beauty

It’s Day 12 in the ongoing 30 Days of Gratitude challenge by Positively Present, and today’s prompt is Beauty. I associate beauty the most with language, particularly the language in classics of English literature like Madame Bovary, Wuthering Heights etc. For this post, keeping the prompt beauty in mind, I have taken portions of an…

Gratitude #11- Freedom

It’s 10 days already in Gratitude November! That went by fast. For Day 11, the prompt is Freedom. I’m grateful for the freedom to live my life the way I want. I’m grateful that my daily life involves activities that give me joy and a sense of authenticity. I’m grateful that my work and my…