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23 Jul 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Shugawrites
It’s not laziness. It’s survival. I’ve watched brilliant people abandon their dreams not because they stopped believing, but because life demanded something else. Rent had to be paid. A hospital bill landed out of nowhere. A younger sibling n...
23 Jul 2025 3 minute read 0 comments JaynieLea
"You don’t start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it’s good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it." – Octavia E. Butler I can remember my mom getting a new car many years ago and suddenly I became aware of t...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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…...
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...
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....
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...
