Front door tree, cool white of Summer

Salvaged book rack 

I love changing a few things when summer finally arrives. We leave doors open during the day, I used to Rome bare foot  in and out feeling very  cool while walking, the leaves rustle in the warm breeze and I don’t want to miss a minute of it.  

 Adding a change of color using hanging mobiles, flowers in bottle or vase etc.etc.which  can help transition the room from one season to the next.  Out with my sunny colourful  pillow covers of winter and spring and in with these cool cream  and white patchwork. I think they add a nice fresh look for the oncoming warm days.

Like I’ve said before, pillow covers are such an easy way to change the look of your room.  I guess I’ve always loved the clean look of navy  blue and white because when I looked through my fabric stash I came up with these favorite fabrics. I made up simple 20 x20'” squares with a zipper for easy on/easy off. A handful of Champa leaves from the front yard and my room feels fresh and cool. Let the sunshine in!

xoxo

I read some psychology .......

 this morning my cup of tea begin with a book on psychology....

Swiss psychiatrist  and psychotherapist  Carl_Jung founded the field of analytical psychology and, along with Sigmund Freud,, was responsible for popularizing the idea that a person’s interior life merited not just attention but dedicated exploration — a notion that has since propelled tens of millions of people into psychotherapy. Freud, who started as Jung’s mentor and later became his rival, generally viewed the unconscious mind as a warehouse for repressed desires, which could then be codified and pathologized and treated. Jung, over time, came to see the psyche as an inherently more spiritual and fluid place, an ocean that could be fished for enlightenment and healing.

The Law of Paradoxical Intent points out the underlying paradox of personal achievement: You can get what you want by knowing that you don’t need it to be happy! It forces you to shift your focus from a desperate intention to a peaceful pursuit. Never send out the energy that you’re willing to wait to be happy — just that you’re willing to wait for the goal. Needing a particular achievement before you can live with peace and joy creates a desperate energy that’s absolute poison to the resonance of success, so be clear about your intentions and fearless in your motivations. Pursue your goals because you want them to enhance an already happy life, not because you’ll be miserable without them.

xoxo

blooms

 I love this crocheted zar for flower vases .it’s very cheap to create .It looks classic .These are some jatropa blooms only blooms these days to charm our front yard.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists. ~Gilbert Chesterton 

xo

Matter ofJoy!!!!!!!!!!!!

A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. ~ Carl_Sandburg

A creative mess is better than tidy idleness. ~Author Unknown

Babies are always more trouble than you thought — and more wonderful. ~ Charles_Osgood

A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase. ~Author Unknown

My true joy in life-being a mom and grandma to a great REHANA!So greatful! 

xo

Photos that speak

Peace begins with a smile.- Mother Teresa

Presentation is everything.- Amanda Clark

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change.   – Buddha

Roads? Where we are going we don’t need roads. –HG Wells 

Life is more fun if you play games.- Roald Dahl

If there is a single lesson that life teaches us it is that wishing doesn’t make it so. Lev Grossman

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.- Arnold Palmer

he earth laughs in flowers. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

all photos are from my family and the flowers are from my front yard ......
xo

E Bronete the real SAINT

Vipin Choudhry 

May issue

It's Vipin Choudhry’s  Reading Week she always made complaint that I am not devoting time reading her writings especially she used to recite poems in front of me repeatedly even on her cell phone and asked to edit them any how this week    I've chosen something a little different from her different modes of writtings……….   As for  the poems she's best known for, Vipin Choudhry also writes (in her own words in hindi)  several  biographies, and translates, including a book on Emily Brontё(under publication). Actually, she used to extract some part of the book she translates and got it published in the prominent Hindi Magazine  aha-zindagi . Vipin  wrote on Emily's  and on her work. Interestingly, as the biography of Maya Anglou she translated is  around 200pp long, her biography of Emily is also just under 250pp. It seems to have been the natural length of her work, the length she was comfortable with. She wrote a book titled  “main roz udit hoti huan” in hindi on Maya Angelou. Prior to it she  wrote an article on her life in  aha-zindagi.Click lallowing links for her work on Maya Maya Angelou.

  HERE, HERE, maya_angelou_, https://www.facebook.com/OaktownWritersCollective

 Recently her article on Emily's lif I published in May 2015.

The method employed in the following pages is of analysis rather than synthesis, through which it is hoped to promote some fresh thoughts on the subject. The following essay is planned to reconstruct Emily Brontё's life story exclusively from documents concurrent with the events. 

I usually read the writings of her sister Charlotte Brontё  and she has been the main source for information about her sister. As I recollect my reading on the family of  Emily ……….from the morning when Branwell appeared in his sister’s room with a box of wooden soldiers & they each chose one, "Emily's was a grave-looking fellow, and we called him 'Gravey'." to weave stories around; to her nervous inquiries to friends as to how Emily behaved in company. Charlotte took the lead in everything from the decision for herself & Emily to go to Brussels to study to the publication of their poetry & novels. Charlotte's poignant letters to W S Williams (reader for her publisher, George Smith) chart the inexorable course of Emily's last illness, "She is a real stoic in illness: she neither seeks nor will accept sympathy. To put any questions, to offer any aid, is to annoy...You must look on and see her do what she is obviously unfit to do, and not dare say a word..." Charlotte wrote the Prefaces & Biographical Notices that set the tone for both Emily &her younger sis Anne's reputations.

 Goggling the  original documents, especially the few letters & diary papers written by Emily, a different picture emerges. Emily certainly didn't enjoy being away from home. Her brief periods at school & as a teacher, ended with a return to Haworth. Spark sees this not as defeat but as Emily creating the conditions she needed to work as she wished. She approved of the scheme to start up a school with her sisters only until she received a legacy from her aunt that meant she didn't need to work. The diary papers Emily wrote on her birthday (to be put away & opened several years later with Anne) are the most important documents we have in discovering what was in Emily's mind. They are full of snippets of information about her daily activities, her pets, what the family are doing as well as plans for the future. They're written in almost a stream of consciousness with little concern for spelling or punctuation,

Aunt has come into the kitchen just now and said Where are your feet Ann Anne answered On the floor Aunt. Papa opened the parlour door and gave Branwell a letter saying Here Branwell read this and show it to your Aunt and Charlotte. The Gondals are discovering the interior of Gaaldine. Sally Mosley is washing in the back kitchen. November 1834

  

It's a snippet of life in the Brontё kitchen with a bit of news about the Gondals (the imaginary people that Emily & Anne wrote a long-running saga about) dropped into the middle. A later diary paper, written in 1845, is full of family news & the tone is of contentment with her lot,

As Vipin searched ….searched and ……….searched   an found that ……Emily as the happiest of the sisters until the last period of her life. She had a real vision of herself as a writer & was able to create a life for herself at Haworth that allowed her time to write.Vipin  believes Emily was a natural celibate. She needed no relationships outside her own family & these completely contented her. She was single-minded about her work & allowed herself no distractions. Her idea of love was a universalised one which may have been unrealistic but which led to the universal declarations of love in Wuthering Heights. Catherine's cry, "I am Heathcliff" is an example of this.

Vipin  sees Emily Brontё as a writer who fulfilled her promise as far as she could. Maybe her mind became unbalanced in her last months &, when she realized that she could not control the tuberculosis that was killing her, she gave in to it. I found this a refreshing way to look at Emily Brontё's life. Vipin  brings a novelist's imagination to trying to understand a woman whose posthumous reputation has overtaken the real life she lived.

 For rest peek into  aha-zindagi.

xo

Missing my Mom-----------Love you mom

This is my second Mother’s Day without my Mom and there is still rarely a day when I don’t think about her and miss her. Few days back  I  listened a concert. Some words from the song Wanting Memories  resonated with me. I thought that you were gone, but now I know you’re with me.

I lost my mom in Jan 2014. There are days that are harder for me than others and Summer  is a difficult season because mom loved it, sitting on her" piddhaa" (a smaller version of khat , to sit on )and "bijanaa" (hand fan)in her hand she used to sit leisurely 
chatting and having relief with the fan in her hand . I do not think we ever get over losing our moms. We go through periods of adjusting to different levels of grief. Grieving has no time period, you have to adjust and grieve at your own pace. I lost my father in 2007 and there are times that the grief is still fresh, but not as sharp as the pain of losing my mom.

God bless all moms

  

http://www.andiesisle.com/amothersdayprayer.html

Mom with her g-daughter

mom knitting squares for blanket

 "Mother's Day is celebrated in over 40 countries worldwide. In the United States in accordance with Regulation congress of 1914 always falls on the second Sunday in May. Poland has been established that will be celebrated on May 26.

 Most countries that have adopted this holiday organizes them just in May.  It is therefore the month of May, in addition to many other important dates and anniversaries, which in itself carries, also a month of the mother.  This is yet another reason to call it the most beautiful month of the year.

 Tradition handling of Mother's Day dates back to ancient Greece.  Along with the blossoming of our ancient ancestors spring approach the celebration of the feast of Mother Nature.  During special festivals, which culminated in the burning of victims brought by the congregation, Folding hold the goddess Rhea, wife of Cronus, mother of the universe and all deities.  In ancient Rome created a custom celebrations of the goddess Cybele, also regarded as the mother of the gods.  This feast was called Hilaria and it lasted three days, from 15 to 18 May.

 The modern Mother's Day carries a lot remains of the Roman Hilariach.  As with many other pagan holidays, Hilaria been "adapted" by the patriarchs of the early church and converted to the Catholic feast of the Mother of God.  As time evolved into the custom of that day to return to his home parish in which this was a baptized, and in this way not only to honor the Mother of God but also his own mother.

 Another look at the history of Mother's Day is the story of the so-called.  "Maternal Sunday," celebrated from around the sixteenth century in England and Scotland.  Every fourth Sunday of Lent for the young and young laborers were primeval forests to their homes to spend the day with their mothers.  Traditionally mothers bring small gifts or special "mother's cake", where a visit to the house was walking the girl.

 In the United States the history of Mother's Day, of course, very happy story, but adoring his mother to the borders of Miss Anna Jarvis of South Virginia.  Two years after her mother's death in 1907, Anna Jarvis and her circle of friends began a campaign to establish an official Mother's Day.  Miss Jarvis, who herself never married and who to the end of his life taking care of his blind sister thought that in this way will make the best tribute that to which he longed after death more than life.  Also argued that mothers are too undervalued, and children often too late to realize the validity of the mothers in your life.  The establishment of Mother's Day was to strengthen the bond between parents and their children, and pay attention to the effort you put in maternal care of their families.  The first Mother's Day, which led Anna Jarvis was honored with a special Mass at which they prayed for all the mothers in the world.  Just four years later, Mother's Day was already well known and adopted the feast. "

xo