kuchh kehna tha

the heart is where home is

this week’s Thought (singular)

i need to cultivate meaningful relationships with all my personalities.

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hi

homes are so lovely. lived-in homes. big homes and small homes. homes where the couches are slightly sunken in, homes where the kitchen is always a bit hotter, homes with that one plug point that doesn’t fully work. homes that go quiet in the afternoons when everybody is asleep, and homes that are always full of excitement and noise. homes where memories have seeped into the walls over decades, and homes that have just started to absorb their inhabitants’ collective consciousness.

maybe this is just the obnoxiously poetic ramblings of an introvert, but my god, the sheer delight i feel at entering my house is unparalleled. turning the key and hearing it click when the front door opens? incredible. seeing my bed, switching on the fan, looking for the stray cat in my balcony, opening my cupboard, filling my water bottle from the aquaguard? all effervescent. sorting my silly little post-it bundles and hair clips and assorted stationery on my study table? going feral just thinking about it.

in Piglet’s Big Movie (pinnacle of film-making btw, willing to lend the dvd), there’s a song at the end about houses and homes and friends. i will spare you any more lyrical waxing and leave you with actual lyrics instead.

With a Few Good Friends by Carly Simon - From Piglet’s Big Movie (2003)

With a few good friends
And a stick or two
A house is built at a corner called Pooh
With a friend and a stick
Or three or four
A house is built where it wasn't before

With a window here
And there a door
And a nail and a peg
For the coat of Eeyore

here’s the link on YouTube to listen if you want!

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Photo by Yerlin Matu on Unsplash

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English Recitation Competition

1. June Sunset, Sarojini Naidu

   Here shall my soul find its true repose
   Under a sunset sky of dreams
   Diaphanous, amber and rose.

2. Phosphorescence, Cynthia Cruz

   I have taken to photographing
   my every moment
   in an attempt to locate
   the place where I lost myself.

3. Sweetness, Always, Pablo Neruda

   With us or without us,
   sweetness will go on living
   and is infinitely alive,
   forever being revived,
   for it’s in a man’s mouth,
   whether he’s eating or singing,
   that sweetness has its place.

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Middle School Book Review

Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers

this book creeps up on you. by which i mean the first hundred pages or so crawl along, and then you’re mildly invested, and then by the time you’ve read your way to the end, something is paining and you’re feeling things that you think have been building up for the last fifteen chapters. gorgeous read.

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The Good Side of the Internet

1. Kafka’s Beautiful and Heartbreaking Love Letters

   “I belong to you… But for this very reason I don’t want to know what you are wearing; it confuses me so much that I cannot deal with life.”

2. The Evolution of Trust - website art project, playable!

3. How to Remember What You Read

   It happens all the time. You read an amazing book, one so packed with wisdom that you think it’s going to change your life forever. Then…it doesn’t. Why? Because when you’re finally in a situation where you could use its insights, you’ve completely forgotten them. Time is our most valuable resource, so we shouldn’t waste it. The investment we make in reading should have a positive, lasting impact on our lives.

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this week’s Song

End of Line by Daft Punk

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thank you for reading, and see you next week <3

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