by Prasanta | Mar 21, 2019 | Faith, Five Minute Friday, Home, Hope, Identity
I stare at the honey-colored wood floors beneath my feet. My eyes travel up to the walls, the painted walls of a pleasing forest green. I didn’t paint these walls. I walk outdoors, bundled up in layers of clothing, making sure to wear gloves and a hat. The gray...
by Prasanta | Dec 18, 2018 | Beauty, Christmas, creative nonfiction, Faith, Five Minute Friday, Hope, Journey, Nature, Pain, Purpose, soul, Stillness, Wonder, Writing, writing journey
Verb. Adverb. Noun. Adjective. Conjunction. This word “still”. I am here still. I am walking still. I am breathing still. I am thinking still. I am living still. Still the sun shines. Still she smiles. Be still. The leaves have fallen; still hope remains. In...
by Prasanta | Nov 16, 2018 | Five Minute Friday, Grief, Journey, Life, Loneliness, Walking
A lone leaf flutters in the tree, a lasting remnant of wind and rain storms passing through. Late November sandwiched in the middle. Gray, brown, unnoticed season. Slow walk after rain, on glistening road. Slosh through soggy grass, wet leaves sticking together. How...
by Prasanta | Nov 12, 2018 | Creation, Five Minute Friday, grace, Hope, Poetry, Promises, Seasons, Walking
I said to the gem surviving beneath the season’s first sheath of ice and snow, “you are my favorite” because the world walked by and did not notice you . I stopped and noticed your tenacity insistence to live and not die buried under indifference of snow and...
by Prasanta | Sep 8, 2018 | Five Minute Friday, Journey, Rainy Days
A Shift With Rain A long wind brushes its fingers through the trees in a stretched whisper. On occasion, it moves angrily, and other times, it shakes and howls at the windowpanes. The long whispers flutter sweetly, softly, welcoming the listener into the...
by Prasanta | Jun 9, 2018 | Children, Dreams, Five Minute Friday, Journey, Summer
“fly” is the right word for me this week as my eldest boarded a plane for the poorest country in the western hemisphere to spend a month working in a remote area on the top of a mountain a one hour drive up and down each day to the health...
by Prasanta | May 31, 2018 | Five Minute Friday, Humility, Kindness, Writing
i will tell you now how pausing is kindness. pausing is the white space, white space around words. pausing is the margins on a page, a space created around words. pausing is the comma. it is catching one’s breath at the end of a...
by Prasanta | Apr 7, 2018 | Five Minute Friday, God's Faithfulness, God's love, God's promises, God's Protection, grace, Grief, Journey, surrender, Thankfulness, Time
Too much emptiness facing me, like an abyss. I’m staring into a black hole. It aches, friend. I’m not quite sure what to do, sometimes. I wish I could wrap back up the years and re-do so many things. It’s not that I don’t take joy in watching my kids grow and helping...
by Prasanta | Mar 23, 2018 | Change, Five Minute Friday, God's Faithfulness, God's love, Gratefulness
I see it around me: a cycle, a system, an organized plan. The seasons are predictable; there are four of them where I live, and they come and go on schedule, according to the calendar. Just recently was the vernal equinox, the first day of spring, and as if on...
by Prasanta | Mar 12, 2018 | Beauty, Five Minute Friday, God's love, Gratefulness, Thankfulness, Wonder
Tired, tired, everyone is tired. It almost sounds cliché. How can we all be so tired? We are tired partly because everyone is busy, overstretched beyond our limits. We are tired because of the perception or idea that “being busy” is equivalent to...
