Setting

Sun :-)

Well, I took these 2 sunset photos one after the other, and so I'm hyperlinking both the photos, because if you can't see one, hope you'll be able to see the other :-)

If internet works glitch-free, everything we can see :-) Hope my blog reaches you without glitches.

Here's another compilation of Quotes:

As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it. - Dick Cavett

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever. - Charles Lamb

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune. - Richard Whately

Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker. - Zig Ziglar

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. - Horace Walpole

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. - Jean Paul

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. - Thomas Mann

The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are. - Paul Tournier

Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner. - Lao Tzu

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away. - Wilson Mizner

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. - Carl Jung

I’m just a speck of sand in the desert of time. - Arnold Weinstock

That's all for now.

Take Care,
~ Aparna ~

Setting

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Setting my
Bed, I remember
How you used to
Set your bed

What an
Arrangement!
What a perfection!

Gone are you
Leaving me
With days of
Silent recollection


Poetry © Aparna Chatterjee

Pic sourced from Getty Images

Pix Quotes

Pix Quotes sourced from AZ Quotes, Slide Share, Store My Pic, Linkedin - thanks to these websites.

Aamar Moner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z-FXgkq4I8


Superb Lyrics, Superb Music, Superb Voice :-)

Those of you who know Bengali will love this song.

Even if you don't know Bengali, you'll love this song if you love the music and the richness of Kishore's voice.

As they say, music transcends all boundaries and sometimes even if we don't understand the lyrics because it is in a different language, but if the music is good, it wins our hearts :-)

To listen to more heartfelt songs of Kishore, you can click here

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAP2Wr4O1JalNn1ZHvVQn3kQYU7NYrUjl


The more I listen to him, the more I miss him.

His melodious voice attracts me and so I keep listening to him.

That's all my sharing for now.

See you again next time with some other song, some other pic or perhaps some other saying as I love quotes :-)

Take Care,
APARNA

Have you heard this song...?!

It's got superb lyrics by Anand Bakshi and superb music by Alokesh Lahiri also known as Bappi Lahiri.

Kishore sings this song as if he's singing only for you :-)

Hothon Pe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGqEnYkDacM

Hope you like it as much as I do.

And have you read this book?

The Wellness Sense by Om Swami

I gifted this to my children this year.

It's available on Amazon and has got good reviews.

I chose it from this list of English books by Indian authors.

https://www.bookgeeks.in/best-english-books-by-indian-authors/

That's all my sharing for now.

Phir Milenge :-)
Yours, APARNA

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

High and Low

Hope you had an enjoyable day on Valentine's Day :-)

To celebrate Valentine's with my family, I went to Thorpe Bay.

We stayed there for a couple of days. One day was sunny and the other day was cloudy as if nature was balancing itself out on the scales of equilibrium, playing with us the game of opposites just like the high and low tides of the sea.

This was high tide on Thorpe Bay.

And here's how it looked at low tide on that cloudy day.

We stayed at a beach hotel in a sea-view room with a balcony on Thorpe esplanade.

We would love to go there again and already looking forward to our next visit whenever that can be :-)

Now here's a very nice love song for you. Hope you cherish it as much as I do.

Pyar Hai

https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=ciWpqXAwJxE

And here's another enjoyable song by the same singer.

Kitne Phool :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2gwWSw-ePc

Happy Humming!

Love & Regards,
As always, Yours
~ APARNA ~

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. - Henry J. Kaiser

Strobes

Strobes
And flashing
Lights don't do
Us any good

They affect
Our eyes,
Giving us
Headaches

Instead of
Enhancing
The dancer's
Performances
They impede the
Show, fading the
Performer's glow
Adding to the
Audience's woe

If the dance is good
Let it happen with
Minimal lighting, good
Enough for the dancer
Not to trip and fall,
To see the stage,
And enthrall us all....

And we can enjoy
His performances without
Having to squirm our eyes
To avoid the glaring lights
Of strobes and flashes that
Do no good to the dancer
And his audiences

If the dance is outstanding
Let the dancer glow in his
Exquisite pirouettes
Instead of ending up
Being a mere shadow
In the excessive lights
That flood the stage,
Consuming needless
Energy and sapping
Our energy, adversely
Affecting our minds
And eyes, limiting our
Vision and enjoyment
Of this artistic creation
That we choose to see
As a way of recreation

Let aesthetics prevail
And subtleties too....
And let the organisers
Know that in any
Stage-show, talent
Should shine....
Instead of strobe lights
And flashes that make us
Whinge and whine :-(


(wrote this after my eyes were aching on seeing a TV show that featured good, talented dancers; however much I wanted to watch the show, the strobes and flashes were really annoying me and I've decided not to watch any future episodes of this show)