by Prasanta | May 15, 2018 | God's love, Journey, Memories, Mothers, Prayer, Purpose, Story, Thankfulness
A few days ago I participated in a prompt on Twitter called “storytweeting”. The theme was “breath”. I shared a story, and it ended up a bit long… as in 18-20 tweets long. Wowza. The word count was almost 800 when I added up the words in...
by Prasanta | Nov 10, 2017 | Journey, Memoir, Story, Writing
“He won’t be with us much longer, ” she says. I haven’t seen her in a few years. I am headed to a writer’s retreat, which she was also planning to attend. At the last minute, she calls to tell me she is unable to attend. *** I head...
by Prasanta | Nov 8, 2017 | Faithfulness, Journey, Memoir, Memories, Quotes, Stories about home, Story, Writing
“It is clear we must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its own way, establishing its own identity, insisting on it at all cost, against all resistance. We can be sure of very little, but the need to court...
by Prasanta | Oct 23, 2017 | Art, Beauty, Becoming Whole, Brokenness, Children, Growth, Healing, Journey, Story
“Are you thinking with me / Of the moon at the mountain’s edge?”- Izumi Shikibu (Japanese poet) Someone posted this beautiful painting on Twitter the other day, and it reminded me of this post I had begun writing a few weeks ago. * Recently, I...
by Prasanta | Jun 7, 2013 | Journey, Spirit, Story
She is over 70 years old, slightly hunched, with silver-gray hair and dark rimmed glasses. We’ve gathered on Memorial Day, to pray, to eat, to sing, to remember. Someone asks her to speak to our group. A spontaneous sharing. She has recently arrived from...
