PROMPT: Comfort Foods

What’s your go-to comfort food?

Completely depends on where I am at the moment. Here, in South India, it’s a paper masala dosa.

But [for example] in Budapest it’s túrós csusza, in Bangkok it’s pad thai, in Bombay it’s vada pav, and in Vajrayana Buddhist areas it’s momo.

Water Walking [Haiku]

egrets & herons
stand on lily pads, only
sinking when stepping.

Shimmer [Haiku]

gray-green waters
shimmer in summer sun:
leaves flutter onshore.

DAILY PHOTO: St. Francis Xavier Cathedral, Bangalore

Taken in July of 2023 in Bangalore

PROMPT: Games

Daily writing prompt
What’s your favorite game (card, board, video, etc.)? Why?

Chess. You can play it anywhere (online, on a phone, on a board, etc.,) everyone knows the rules, and it’s a cognitive workout – rather than being a tedious timepass.

Symbiosis [Haiku]

chital eats grass.
 myna eats bugs off chital:
  everyone 's happy.

Monsoon Monochrome [Haiku]

thick, low clouds,
 backlit hazy ridges, and no
  discernible color.

DAILY PHOTO: Cool Blue Sky Over Shri Bhagandeshwara Temple

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Five Wise Lines from Macbeth

Macbeth & Banquo Encounter the Witches
by Theodore Chasseriau

“There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.”

Duncan in Act I, Scene 4

“Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor.”

Macbeth in Act I, Scene 7

“when our actions do not, our fears do make us traitors”

Wife of Macduff in Act IV, Scene 2

“Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat up the honest men and hang them up.”

Son of Macduff in Act IV, Scene 2

“Life ‘s but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury signifying nothing.

Macbeth in Act V, Scene 5

Green, Green Hills [Haiku]

the green hills,
 lit through monsoon clouds,
  change shape before me.