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Thank You and Farewell Ozzy - A Tribute.

23 Jul 2025 3 minute read 1 comment rah

It must have been some time in 1984 when my uncle, only a bit more than two years older than me, was to change my life forever. Sometime before then he had discovered heavy metal and he lent me some of his records. He introduced me to many of my favo...

You cannot Draw Water from a Rock.

22 Jul 2025 2 minute read 0 comments JaynieLea

“It is quite clear that between love and understanding there is a very close link...He who loves understands, and he who understands loves. One who feels understood feels loved, and one who feels loved feels sure of being understood.” - Paul Tourni...

The Beauty in your Details

21 Jul 2025 6 minute read 4 comments JaynieLea

Paintings are magical things really and though I have always loved art, I have developed a really deep and rich connection to it in the last few years, so I decided to use a close up photo of the oil paint strokes on a painting my late mom did for m...

Hot Potato - Cold Potato!

20 Jul 2025 3 minute read 0 comments JaynieLea

I do not believe that you have to spend a lot of money to eat well: it is hard to beat a plain old baked potato. - Laurie Colwin Pretty much everyone on my life says that I should have been Irish because of my unending love for potatoes! Like r...

Putting the shoe on the other foot.

18 Jul 2025 3 minute read 0 comments JaynieLea

If I go out into my garden right now, I could pick literally endless points and positions to go stand and every single one of them is going to offer me a completely different view. Angles, perspectives and sights that no other position will give me…...

What Shapes Us: Upbringing, Surroundings, or Self?

17 Jul 2025 3 minute read 1 comment Bhatt_G

It is said that we become like the company we keep, but it has been seen many times that there are people who live among such people but still they turn out to be completely different like you can see the lotus flower, it is in the mud yet it is so b...

How to Unf*ck Your Life Using Calculations

17 Jul 2025 12 minute read 0 comments DrPraze

When a baby reaches for a shiny glass on a table, it’s not because it knows anything. It doesn’t know danger. It doesn’t know manners. It doesn’t even know what a “cup” is. It’s reaching because there’s a void—a mystery it’s compelled to fill....

Petrichor and my Inner Child

17 Jul 2025 2 minute read 0 comments JaynieLea

  Whenever it rains, and its earthy scent - the petrichor - hits my senses, memories come flashing and I go back in time. - Shon Mehta I love my garden after the rain. There is something absolutely magical about inhaling the smell of wet earth as...

Certain adverbials of time

16 Jul 2025 1 minute read 0 comments espacioreal

  are nothing but compadritosthat insult—with naive eloquence—the necessary, unavoidable diligenceof life: tomorrow, later, then,as if the sea could wait,as if that movie could wait,as if the rain, the bread, the shrewd kiss,Mozart, Chekhov, Diego's...

Take the Leap and Embrace Your Fear to Succeed

16 Jul 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeoPuentes.me

The difference between successful entrepreneurs and those who falter lies not in having a brilliant idea or abundant resources, but in **passion**. Passion is the driving force that keeps you going when obstacles seem insurmountable. Fear, often seen...