Happy 2023 to my readers – both old and new! There is something about the start of a new year which infuses fresh energy and rigor into our dreams, goals and resolutions. Technically it is just a date change on the calendar, but still we party on the 31st and then magically start eating healthy and working out from the 1st (or atleast I do!). I was thinking about my 2023 resolutions while binge watching Younger (a TV series I love) when the character of Diana Trout dropped this gem of a quote in Season 6 (watch a clip here): …
Hello beautiful people, are you ready for spring? I know I am! Today is the Spring Equinox, which marks the beginning of spring across the world. Today is one of the only two days in the year when the day and night are equal in length and perfectly in balance! Coincidentally, today is also the International Day of Happiness and the start of the Persian New Year. Which in my mind is kind of perfect, because how can one feel anything but happy on a balmy spring day in March? I am always on the lookout for special rituals that one can create to…
I am writing this post from a room which is bare, empty and feels cold, even though today is a particularly warm summer day. All the paraphernalia on my desk has been packed in boxes, and the pictures and postcards on the walls have been stripped off. No, I am not moving anywhere. I am simply re-building my study room / work-space. After a lot of thinking, planning, postponing and some more planning, I finally decided that I had to re-do my room this year. Over the last few years, I have collected and parked a lot of memories and a whole lot more objects in…
