Havent really made resolutions for long.. but heres one after many years. I hope to write more often this year, and with no intention of wanting to prove anything or make this world a better place.. .. but just with an expectation of making myself happier because I expressed ‘me’!
Writing is a
big release for me. I have a hand written ‘To do’ list everyday. One side of
the paper will be things related to work and the other half of ‘to dos’ for the
house. They are often on equal footing ☺ .. leaving me little time to do anything for myself.
So now in the ‘Home’ side of ‘to dos’ I also include what I want to do for
myself in the day.. which now includes
..” write something” ! The aim is to cut off every item on there by the
EOD, else it moves on the next days .. ‘To do’!
I think there’s
a lot of energy one needs to put into the act of ‘talking’. You need to have
the context set, you need to have other distractions out, if in a group, you
have to be louder than the loudest person in the group, and finally the most
important, you need to have the right ‘ear’ to hear you out. So most often I
have resorted to ‘writing’ as my vent out. Years of diary writing finally
stopped some years back. And then I took to blogging. But never was very
consistent, because I felt very vulnerable in this medium. People tend to judge
you, put you somewhere in their own matrix of impressions. But somewhere down
the timeline of one’s life, such things stop to matter! So thus.. here I am ☺. Even if you smile through any one of these sentences
I have penned down.. I have achieved my connection !!!
I have in the
past 5-6 years as part of slowing down my life, started to notice a lot of
things, spaces, happenings et al around me. Being very involved in a lot of
activities in your life, sometimes makes one miss small but intriguing events
around you.
One such
happening is this unique jodi in my balcony. Last year, a friend of Sagar’s
gifted us a jackfruit sapling to plant in our farm house. I put it in a big pot
in our balcony to make sure it was sturdy enough to be planted in the wild. Since
I realised composting wasn’t working out for me in my apartment complex, I
tried another indigenous concoction. The dry kitchen waste of the day I put
aside in one bowl and fill it up with water at night. This fermenrted vegetable
broth would go to my balcony plants the next morning. The flowering of all the
plants have improved, so I am assuming it is working!
This activity
led to another serendipity. I noticed that a tomato plant was growing along
side the jackfruit sapling. And lo.. in a span of a month I had 5 little green
tomatoes on them!! I was awestruck by this symbiosis. The live-in relationship
that the tomato plant choose to have with the jackfruit sapling was amazing…
It was the
same water I put on all the pots, but the tomato choose the jackfruit.. I
wonder why? Any which ways, it glared on me, as to how important it is to work
on getting your soil fertile and not really worry about the produce. If the
nourishment is right in the environment, magic is bound to happen! ‘ Environment’
could be also be your home, or office or the society you live in.
‘What goes in’
definitely ‘comes out’… so I think if we are conscious about what goes into our
respective environments, the output I guess could be desirable too. Not that I knew
the concoction that I made would have magically effects, but it certainly gave
some tomato seeds an opportunity to further e
Wishing
everyone a very happy new 2024 year ahead..
So lovely! Nature is indeed amazing.
ReplyDeletethank you dear Niloufer !
Deletethe veggies fermented idea is a good one, let me try before i put them in the compost bin.
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