Book Love

Written for the Write Tribe Festival of Words #3 Day 4 - Book Review

Many years ago when I got married, my best friend had already moved to the US. Unfortunately she couldn't make it to my wedding but she sent me a wedding card and in it she wrote these lines:

Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping.
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And stand together yet not too near together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.

These are words from Kahlil Gibran's book, The Prophet, my favourite book of all time. It's one of my most treasured gifts that I got from my workmates in India when I left for New Zealand.

The book opens with the Prophet Almustafa leaving the city of Orphalese. He's about to board his ship when  he is stopped by a group of people who ask him to enlighten them on life.

The book is divided into chapters dealing with different stages of life and circumstances, human values and conditions and each chapter is written in poetic form. As I love poetry, this style of this book  appeals to me greatly.

This is a book that truly grows on you. Each time I read it, I understand the words a little bit better. One can read this as a story or take a spiritual meaning from it.

But one has to read it to experience it for oneself.

My posts so far: Day 1  Day 2   Day 3

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UBC Day 2: My Word for 2014

Day 2 Ultimate Blogging Challenge
Also linking to the Write Tribe New Year prompt

Having experienced abundance in 2013, this year I have chosen the word  Joy - to find joy in all things, to live in joy.

I had been thinking a little about my word and tossed up a few .. peace, love, joy, giving, receiving, allowing, fun .... Couldn't make up my mind, so I let it drop knowing that somehow the word would come to me.

And then the Universe gave me a little nudge in the form of a Christmas ornament.

The only 2 word-ornaments I found this year were Noel and Joy. So Joy it is! And I look forward to how this word unfolds for me. So exciting.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

~ Kahlil Gibran

Wish you all joy in all you do. Have a joyous day.

Check out these awesome bloggers who are also taking part in the UBC challenge:
  Shilpa  Kajal  Richa  Jairam  Sheethal  Kathy  Swati  Michelle  Nabanita

My previous UBC Jan 2014 posts here


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GBE2 - Déjà Vu

The year was 1987, the place was Mumbai, India. 

I had a strange dream.

I dreamt that one morning when I woke up I saw an entire street covered in snow - the roofs of the houses all white.

This was a very strange dream as there were no little houses in my street in Mumbai and it never snows there. In fact it's never cold there - I am of course comparing the cold to New Zealand for cold is quite subjective  And the little houses or the street that I saw certainly didn't exist anywhere in Mumbai.

And so the dream was stored away in the tiny compartments of my brain and forgotten.


The year was 2011, the place was Wellington, New Zealand and a bitterly cold winter. 

It snowed all over New Zealand right down to sea level. I moved to Wellington in 1988 and in my 24 years here the 2011 snowfall was the first ever. In fact it was the first down to sea level in 50 years.

I stood in my garden ready to click the pictures when I had this strange sensation come over me and my mind went zooming back to that dream in Mumbai.

For the scene before me was just like that dream back then.

Was this Déjà Vu?  Or was that Déjà Vu as well? 

Here's the picture I took that day that was just like the scene in my dream.

It was but yesterday we met in a dream.

If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more, 

We shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song.

~ Khalil Gibran, The Prophet (my favourite book of all time)

Linking to the GBE2 prompt "Déjà Vu"


Have a dreamy day.

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