Tag: Experiences

• Diary entry -A short trip to Dubai

  

  1st October 2022 10.00 p.m.  I’m travelling to Dubai after 4 years and two months to be precise. Dubai is the place I lived in practically all my life and yet, strangely, I am not as excited as I should be. Maybe, it’s because I know I’m going there for just ten days. The more…

  Smitha V

  October 18, 2022

  Experiences, Travel

  #dhaka, #diary, #Dubai, #familytrip, #India, #journey, #life, #mumbai, #nostalgia, #prose, #returninghome, #travelogue, #truth, Experiences

• Book review: The winding road by Miriam Hurdle- A journey of survival

  

  I want to thank Miriam for writing this book which is a real-life account of her battle with cancer in 2008. In the foreword, she says, ” Life is precious and it’s worth fighting for. If I died, my pain went with me, but I would leave pain with my loved ones. My life is…

  Smitha V

  September 20, 2022

  Book Review

  #belief, #bookreview, #cancerstory, #faith, #feelgood, #hospitals, #informative, #inspiration, #life, #newbook, #novella, #survival, #truth, Experiences

• Friday Flowers

  

  It feels like a long time since I wrote a post and since I’m still a little dazed (happily so) after the holidays, I figured I’d kickstart my blog with pictures of flowers I took during my holiday. I should’ve taken many more photographs but I’d been far too busy doing other things like meeting…

  Smitha V

  July 23, 2021

  Experiences

  #blogaweek, #blogger, #fotd, #fridayflowers, #life, Experiences

• Published : Waiting

  

  I’m very happy to say my poem – ‘Waiting’ has been published by Silver Birch Press under the ‘I am waiting series’. Below is the first stanza of the poem. I waited for a callMy alkaline blood curdlingThe pungency burning my insidesI tasted harshness on my tongueAnd bitterness in my skinI was a wisp of…

  Smitha V

  July 17, 2021

  Experiences, Poetry

  #blogaweek, #blogger, #blogging, #death, #healing, #inspiration, #life, #loss, #metaphor, #people, #truth, #waiting, Experiences

• My journey to healing: going away from the familiar

  

  This year we did not celebrate Christmas because of all the losses in the family. On 26th December it was one month since dad passed away and I still felt extremely low. I did art, reading, writing and while it did help me feel better, it was short-term. I had no idea what to do…

  Smitha V

  January 23, 2021

  Experiences, Travel

  #beautifulindia, #dealing with loss, #familyholiday, #goingaway, #healing, #holiday, #India, #madurai, #meenakshitemple, #SouthIndia, #spiritualjourney, #travelogue, Experiences