by Prasanta | Oct 16, 2018 | Books, Quotes
Charlotte Bronte’s book, Jane Eyre, was first published on this day in 1847. I was introduced to this book in high school for class. Loved the book then, and still do. I reread it from time to time. I had a wonderful email exchange on this book recently with a...
by Prasanta | Oct 1, 2018 | Beauty, Quotes
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” -L.M. Montgomery, in Anne Of Green Gables
by Prasanta | Sep 22, 2018 | Poetry, Quotes
(photo source: unsplash) Poetry is language used with intensity. It is not, as so many suppose, decorative speech. Poets tell us what our eyes, blurred with too much gawking, and our ears, dulled with too much chatter, miss around and within us. Poets use words...
by Prasanta | Aug 31, 2018 | Haiku, Nature, Poetry, Quotes, Uncategorized
… and so the day slips the long mournings of trees last traces of gold © prasanta – August 2018 “August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.” ― Sylvia...
by Prasanta | Aug 1, 2018 | Beauty, Quotes, Seasons, Summer, Wordless Wednesday
“Everyday I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.” ― Claude Monet “Nobody sees a flower – really – it is so small it takes time – we...
by Prasanta | Jul 20, 2018 | Friday Feature, Quotes, Summer
This week, I will continue on the theme from the recent July 4 Friday Feature, a naturalization ceremony held at the Coolidge Historial site and homestead, in Plymouth Notch, Vermont. While at the event and visiting the museum, I noticed a plaque on the wall with one...
by Prasanta | Jun 4, 2018 | Books, Quotes, Uncategorized
One of my favorite books of all time is A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle. It’s a bit challenging to succinctly explain the effect this book had on my life. Of course, I only realize it all now, years later after the fact. I was 10 years old when I...
by Prasanta | May 26, 2018 | Beauty, flowers, Poetry, Quotes, Seasons, Spring, Uncategorized
This spring as it comes bursts up in bonfires green, Wild puffing of emerald trees, and flame-filled bushes, Thorn-blossom lifting in wreaths of smoke between Where the wood fumes up and the watery, flickering rushes. I am amazed at this spring, this conflagration Of...
by Prasanta | May 17, 2018 | Beauty, Poetry, Quotes, Seasons, Spring, Uncategorized
In the deepening spring of May, I had no choice but to recognize the trembling of my heart. It usually happened as the sun was going down. In the pale evening gloom, when the soft fragrance of magnolias hung in the air, my heart would swell without warning,...
by Prasanta | Apr 26, 2018 | peace, Perspective, Poetry, Quotes, Rest, scripture, Spring, Time
I write these words on a day in late April, the half-gray sky with muted sunshine. The grass is a mild shade of green and the snow has melted, though mini icebergs remain where plows stacked the snow into piles. April is a season of change; a transition from one...
