TELL ME WHAT YOU KNOW ABOUT LOVE

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EVOCATIVE

 
The view from my room
 
My room
Glasgow is slowly growing on me.
 My journal, my world, my self are slowly changing, evolving, growing wings. I’m starting to see the city in terms of colours and curves and mood and sky; starting to see the joy of anonimity in a new place so I can park my self [...]

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Brave in Glasgow

Its been 3 weeks! Atleast.

So this is a ‘wee’ part of central Glasgow. The only part I know enough to draw.
Its been warming to read all your comments and kindness so this post is for you. Its not a post. Just an acknoledgement and a HII. Like a little catch up post. Full post next [...]

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Hello Goodbye

For September 13th 2007
  
I’m leaving for London tomorrow. After 5 months at home. And after 21 years of living in a subcontinent that’s full and rich and intimate and noisy and smelly in a way that no other continent can be. I’m both hopeful and nervous. London, Birmingham, Glasgow…these have been vacation homes for years [...]

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Body Talk

 
 
Last night at the party there was a girl. Young. At the threshold. Almost blooming. Still shy and unsure. She wore a gorgeous sari (first time) and left her luscious hair (everybody was talking about her hair!) loose. She looked unsure but very very pretty. She’s normally in nothing fancier than shorts and a heavy [...]

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Today has been painful. And sad. I wrote with tears dripping on either side on the page, and on my bare hands, and all over my track pants. I have written in anger and in emotion. Today has bled, the blood of old, still raw inside wounds. These will bleed slowly for weeks now until [...]

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Oh what a journey

Our task is to say a holy yes to the real things of our life as they exist.
Natalie Goldberg
This has become me favourite page in this art journal. Maybe its the colours. The polks. Her expression. Her smile. The associations I have with the words I’ve written. I’m not sure. But I absolutely *heart* it [...]

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What’s Ugly?

Writing and art journaling has certainly been the highlight of the last two days. Lots of Zettiology style pages. That and family. So its been a good few days, generally. 

I find that some of my most evocative writing comes from the failure of an attempt. When I couldn’t stitch beautifully I wrote about adventure; when I [...]

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TODAY I CLAIM…

 Today I claim: 
My insecurities
 

 
My boyfriend
My books
 

 
My feet
   
My achievements
My imagination
My fear of the dark
 

 
My mistakes
My romanticism
 

 
All my quirks
My loud laugh
 

 
My need for attention
 

 
My choices
 

 
Bombay
 

 
My anger
 

 
My struggle to be a more generous person
My failed attempts
My body
 

 
My past
 

 
My music
My dreams of travel
 

 
My need to learn and grow
 

 
My style
My mess
 

 
My indulgences
My art
 

 
My sense of humour
My floating dreams
 

 
My experiments
My idealism
My [...]

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