Lucknow — “I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the b...
San francisco — Foo bar baz. Extending a snippet.
Huntington beach — Different places evoke different emotions in me, we will soon learn that well. And when I’m by the sea and I can taste the salt in the air and the sun kisses my skin, I feel infinite. I feel like I co...
Destin — It’s a beautiful Saturday morning, and you rest peacefully, warmly, in your bed. Your eyes flutter open, and your body begins to stir. Some may say that this is when you have woken up, but I think oth...
Sunnyvale — Just when I’m getting complacent I see stuff like this hits me like a freight train. Just when you start getting into a rhythm, then life throws the curve ball from hell. At first it was this quote: ...
Chiang mai — The warnings about the dangers of the Songkran, the Buddhist New Year’s celebrations, were everywhere in Thailand. “Protect your valuables, cover your backpack, wear protective eyewear.” While readin...
Superior — Two hundred bands (or more) scattered over 40 venues (or more) during the next 8 days (that’s fixed). I sit in the sun with a yellow hi-lighter marking the bands I might like to hear in the 100 page (...
Lucknow — It is moments like these when the night has fallen to the loving caress of a swift cool breeze after a warm brisk sunny day, and the moon is sky high, peeking endearingly from the patches of clouds, t...
Paraparaumu — This proposes the question: “Where else can I find things as beautiful as this, just not as vibrant and flamboyant? There must be things this wonderful, but maybe they’re subtle.”
Los angeles — Visiting local bookstores on a trip is one of my favorites. It’s like a treasure hunting. We visited the last booksore in downtown L.A. It was not a kind of shops I like but it exited me in aother rea...
San francisco — Recently I’ve had this image pictured over and over in my head. I remember talking with my dad about us going to Spain so he could work on his PhD. I was begging him to go and he was the resisting one...
Southern peninsula — I made a promise to myself a couple of years ago: 30th birthday, Iceland. And this morning, I had to laugh at myself, in the middle of the frickin’ Blue Lagoon, after spending my entire 30th on an ai...
Dorchester — It was lovely to be able to watch my daughter and my niece playing together while on holiday last week. There they are in the large garden surrounding the house we were staying in, just on the southe...
Dorchester — Spending a week in this beautiful Dorset village has given me many wonderful memories, one of which is shown in the photograph above. I hope to offer up a few more to my Hi friends over the coming we...
Yokohama — “It’s comfortable.” she enunciated, and smiled.
Salt lake city — Today I ran my first half marathon in Salt Lake City, UT. I never thought I would make it to the finish line. Although I began my training months before the race, I unexpectedly strained my groin a mo...
Mountain view — I had a doctor’s appointment that ended really early in Palo Alto. I was careful to the point of asking the conductor if the train stopped in San Antonio and heard very clearly that it was the next on...
Hong kong — “Mr. Sanders, he is gay,” said the 10 year old pointing to his classmate. I froze. A million thoughts came rushing through my mind such as does the boy know what it means? Is he joking? Is he repeatin...
Yellowstone national park — After spending the spring semester persevering through an 18 credit load and working a full-time job on the side, a college student decides to spend her free time and savings account traveling through...
Lucknow — “To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have fe...
Ilkley — As I wrote my commission for Wakefield Litfest last year, Wakelost Wakefound, I found myself writing more and more on screen. I don’t just mean on the computer, I mean in WordPress, pushing Update an...
Rawlins — I cannot count on two hands how many times, throughout life, I have changed my “favorite color.” It could have simply been a change in preference, or change in personality, perhaps. It is hard to obs...
Hilliard — Stopped mid-stride by this painting in a window a block away from the bay in San Francisco. Like a memory frozen before me I had to capture it to share with my wife - the subject of my own mental mast...
San jose — I’d rather be in Mumbai right this second, slouching lazily on my apartment couch with bad quality wifi and a children’s book (Matilda to be specific), in my palms. I’d rather be dancing my days away ...
North platte — As we pulled up to the desolate petro station, I couldn’t help but admire the emptiness; it was beautiful. I think about how busy the city is back home. I wonder how it feels to live out here. Must b...
Guatemala — No hay engaños, ni sufrimiento, ni temores, pero… ¡Ya nadie lee las advertencias! Yo tampoco iba a ser la primera. Sólo queda esperar a que Chronos decida. Pero es que ni en el momento más doloroso ...
Singapore — I know once I start it’ll go quick, but giving that first step is just tough sometimes… specially on a monday morning when working from home… 3, 2, 1….
Quezon city — And now, the death of a dear relative has brought the idea of death closer to home than ever before. During my first ever meditation last year, a voice whispered in my ear, “Don’t worry too much abou...
Lincoln city — I just had my first experience with Internet Trolling. A story I wrote for Yahoo Travel about traveling in Pakistan has been misinterpreted by some. I woke up to nasty tweets and emails. I thought lo...
Tübingen — Some of my pictures look like they were taken from my father’s old coffee table books. A certain genre of popularized high brow photography. The cameras had seen people from all corners of the world, ...
Lucknow — Sometimes I take out moments; just random bits of prosaic, ordinary minutes out of my mundane days to hit pause and do nothing but listen; and in absolutely astounding yet innocently modest ways, the ...
Brandon — Oh, she is sassy. She is indubitably my best friend; she is my companion. After a long day of work or school, I stomp up the steps, open the door, and before I can drop the huge load that burdens my ...
Gatlinburg — Over spring break, I drove 11 hours until I reached the Great Smoky Mountains. I drove through Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and the Tennessee. Too many windmills to count, but not enough to keep me en...
Lungsod quezon — I talk and write extensively about wanting to leave home, as if in some undiscovered Elsewhere, my true Home awaits. But sometimes I’m skeptical of my own existential unease, like any self-aware mille...
Salina — When I was five happiness was staying up later on the weekends,having the extra cookie at snack time, and being the princess during dress up,Happiness was walking to the beach feeling the sand in betw...
Sunnyvale — I spent almost 18 months discovering myself and finding what is it that I love, the things I’m passionate about, the things that I hate with a passion, the secret of a life without regrets, discoverin...
Katrineholm — I chat with you almost every day, but I still want to write to you. Isn’t it peculiar? Isn’t it peculiar that your mornings are my evenings and your nights are my days? The distance to you is mind-num...
Kirkfield — The best nights for star photography are the coldest nights. It was early April—only -2ºC. But Venus was shining above the horizon and the north skies beckoned, so I headed outside to try my luck. Wi...
Mona vale — We rented a beach house but we didn’t consider the weather or check the surf condition. It’s been overcast and chilly. The current is too strong and too rough for beginning surfers on long boards. Our...
Lucknow — The resonance and the lingering. The moments that held onto themselves before others came up and made their own space in the intangible dimensions we can just really feel. That is what drew me in when...
Rotterdam — I didn’t see the UK election leaders debate, but maybe picking up the echoes on social media and news websites from abroad made this stick out from Michael Ondaatje’s The Cat’s Table. “What is intere...
Quezon city — “Anong ibig sabihin ng EP?” “Extended Play.” “Bakit ‘extended’?” “I don’t know. Extended from one song? Usually 3 to 5 songs ‘yun eh.” Or I could be wrong of course. But setting aside the whys or ...
Aireys inlet — Walking into the lobby of the hotel, burdened by an old man’s waspish resistance to the joys of the holiday spirit, I was irritated, perhaps, by the sight of the huge baubles on the tree and by the im...
Long beach — There is an end to every road, a place where the dream logic of a journey reaches its hard, fast, inalienable conclusion. Most often the markers are physical and geographic, as when the pavement quits...
Clare — There’s something special about places where land meets the sea — I suppose the same must be true about that place right on the edge of Earth’s atmosphere, though until Richard Branson invites me on a...
Minato-ku — … it rolls to a rest, like a camera in water, on some scene of Hopper’s imagining- the untongued tension, taut as a lampshade and crouching, potent as a bared-tooth dog. A child with bulbous, blue e...
Lucknow — It has been really long since I was in a little room of a studio that it was to get a passport size photograph clicked. Quite frankly, I am never sure why and how these visits never go smooth for me. ...
Reykjavík — “What on earth are you doing? Why are you mailing them so slowly? It’s cold, get on with it!” — I said to her, barely feeling my fingers. It was our last night in Iceland, and being in Reykjavik meant...
Duluth — Shady accountants keep two sets of books. It enables more ‘flexible’ finances - for a while. I suspect many retired folks like me keep double clocks. Way back in early iPhone days I bought this fancy...
Guatemala — ‘Cause you taught me how to love without being in love. ‘Cause life is good enough to see you by my side, holding hands and kissing cheeks. You took me to the middle of the street and asked me to look...
Guatemala — I would like to kiss you anytime, anywhere… Walking down streets next to you, holding your hand tight to mine, taking care to nobody separate us. If somebody comes and give me too many kisses’ tick...
Guatemala — Doesn’t matter how many time we had to wait for going there. We enjoyed our day, it was funny, full of jokes, people talking about the concert, everything was amazing! Nobody said anything about your...
Guatemala — I’ve felt alone without any help when I was falling down from heaven you didn’t come to save me, you didn’t come to catch me, our relation is empty… where nobody can say anything because we’ve chose...
San pedro de atacama — Amazing clarity of the atmosphere due to high altitude, dry air (the dryer desert in the world) and no light pollution. (I took that image with a Sony A7s) You can go here in the night (10pm – 1am) ...
San pedro de atacama — Wrapped in quinoa instead of rice, served with two soy sauces (sweet and regular), wasabi and pickled ginger. The llama meat was cooked.
Chicago — My personal experience with the world is very confusing and biased. I feel it will remain so for a long while, it has been for many people as well. While uniqueness is in abundance, chaos is its siste...
Duluth — I am at Vitta Pizza sitting next to three young people, like college age, who are … like … talking using lots and lots and lots ‘likes’. They used at least one each clause or sentence. More inter...
Cambridge — Doing a six month stint at Inpress I have several challenges on my hands, not least one that boils down to numbers: with over 40 publishers in membership, there’s a lot of reading to do to become fami...
Port campbell — Ultimately Green will triumph but Nature may destroy man’s handiwork . . . and man.
Guatemala — I won’t fall in love, but if my heart does it, i will not do anything against it. Feelings are stronger than mind, I’ve learnt that since I was fourteen and that’s the experience that I don’t want to ...
Guatemala — Las sonrisas que provocas con sólo verme… Las mariposas que revolotean en mi estómago cuando mis ojos ven que estás cerca… Cada uno de los segundos que ocupa mi mente pensándote, cada uno de los m...
Null — The universe conspired In quite a remarkable way Karma comes but Once in a while But in three. I am leaving you San Francisco And I am taking my heart with me.
Higashiyama-ku — I was deeply impressed to garden that expresses the 25 Bodhisattva using clear-cut rocks and Satsuki and the stone wall of moss.
Tunis — it was a regular january morning, I was driving myself for 66km (42 miles) to my modern slavery workplace. The road is near empty and my only companion is the sun struggling to shine behind the gloom...
Lucknow — Of course I want to travel. See the world in all its imperfections. Breathe in the air where the water chooses to flow freely and in its own tune, embrace the calm of the skies. All this and more. Bu...
Barrington — The thing that I love to do the most is to get right down on my knees, spread my fingertips apart and stick them into the grass just above the ground. Rush my fingers in between the weave of roots and...
Sheffield — Coincidentally we met in the office of my publisher, The Poetry Business. I’ll miss Inpress. I’ll still knock around with publishers, but will lose the hard edge insight of where they meet the marke...
Guatemala — ¿Por qué dejamos de creer en la magia? Si es lo que siento cuando sus labios esbozan una sonrisa suplicante de ser vista. Cuando sus ojos se irradian con aquella felicidad que es propia de él. Sin toc...
Yangon — I really wanted to get a photograph of a pagoda in the Yangon during my trip around South East Asia. The most logical place was the famous Burmese landmark, Shwedagon Pagoda right in the Yangon / Rang...
Lucknow — It is never easy releasing that part of yourself that loved another soul without actually having to go through the hurt of letting go the hope of something good that might have come out of it. It neve...
Lucknow — Sometimes when someone doesn’t like you back even though you adore that person more than you should, do not be disheartened. It is just not the time for the souls to connect. For what it is worth, you...
Sandefjord — Brush off dirt and dog hairs. Take out the laces. Put the shoes and the laces in a washable bag. Put the washable bag with the shoes and the laces in the washer with a towel. Don’t put more stuff in ...
New york — I believe mirrors are something more than mere physical objects. Maybe we’re the ones giving them such dimension, but staring at them & ourselves in the process always stirs up something on us. In...
Toronto — Imagine this building, if you will, covered in icicles. Not the tiny, sharp, mundane ones that form on the eavestroughs of houses. No, these were mighty. Giants of their kind. As thick as your head, ...
Odense c — It is either a symbol melancholy, nostalgia, sadness but also a prelude to blooming, a way to make a landscape green again and full of life. We were also taught to fear the rain: We may get our hair r...
Lucknow — If we were to believe that the stories and tales we are told all throughout our childhood are actual events that have happened sometime in the past and the only reason for our forefathers to etch them...
Lucknow — How many times has it happened that your mind actually fights over a rational decision. The matters of the mind vs. the matters of the heart. Always a troublesome debate. Why? May be a part of that an...
Paris — I was not so well when for no particular reason I typed “Thomas Pynchon” in the browsers search field. I had no reason to search for anything Pynhon-esque and it’s been a while since the last book fro...
Guimbal — I don’t know why I liked the sea, or the ocean. I was always scared with the water. I can still remember how I cry with fear whenever my mother would enroll me for a swimming summer class during the m...
Liverpool — As wearable technology interest reaches fever pitch, I ask myself two questions (1) What kind of person wears what kind of watch? (2) What kind of person do I want to be? First of all, what do we kno...
Örebro — It’s fascinating to watch everyone pass by. I’m sitting at a juice bar that recently opened in Örebro. With their wooden benches, concrete table tops and rough walls, small lemon trees here and there ...
Sydney — Recently I haven’t had the time to look at myself in the mirror. No,seriously, working, caring for two boys (husband and son) and taking care of the house completely exhausted me. Even in days when I ...
Athina — Today, one month and three weeks after my surgery, I choose to write again because today I can write again. The surgery went very well, but my recovery took forever. Today is the first day I am feelin...
Athina — An embryo without brain. Not a pretty sight. But it is on display in a tiny museum that you have to cross on the way to the university hospital cafeteria, for all the world to see. An easily scared f...
Aveiro — This morning I’ve meditated on randomness. Not about random things, but the act of randomness itself. It’s a topic worth meditating and dwelling about just as much as kindness and compassion are. Not...
Chandigarh — You know that nagging self doubt that comes even after you made the right decision? Here you are today feeling so sure of yourself, so happy and everything looks shiny and promising. Yes you’ve earned...
Saskatoon — Miles make things hard. Any kind of relationship can get chaotic, awful, and sad. Even more so when there are multiple miles between you and the person you are trying to have a relationship with. Unle...
Guatemala — En la sombría penumbra de una antigua habitación, se escucha el alarido de un ser angelical, una divinidad que se oscurece con la sola presencia del ser más demoníaco que le acompaña. Ambos fusionándo...
Melbourne — Have you noticed how people are always so set in their ways. I was once exactly like this! I believed my house is my fortress and the thought of leaving my place, city or country made me cringe to th...
London — Stop yelling so loudly that no one hears. I am sick and tired of everything that you don’t tell me. Of what no one hears because you never even whisper how much it is exactly you love me. I can’t b...
Stuttgart — David Franca Mences wrote a wonderful and very inspiring text on the meaning of being and the possibility of reinventing oneself in airports 1. Considering myself as an ”Airport People” according to ...
Mariposa county — Places that provided adventure almost always lured me in. If the place was dangerous, it was almost guaranteed I would go there. It was always my personality to do things that weren’t status quo. It’s...
Saskatoon — I come from what I consider a small city. I would go to the grocery store near my house and discover the manager went to high school with my dad. I would get facebook messages from Mom’s who’s kid and...
Bayfield — Some winters, with severe temperatures cold enough, freeze a path on the surface Lake Superior to the ice filled sandstone caves of Mawikwe Bay. Yesterday 11,500 people gathered family and friends to...
Orlando — I wanted her gone. Every inch of every memory of her. The whole fabric of our time spent together. I wanted it unraveled. As if we never existed. The hard glare of the fluorescent light. The shiny mar...
Liverpool — After much time spent trying to come up with a worthy idea, I now have the basis for my first short story! Thank you inspiration. I think most of my recent posts have been pictures similar to this. A...
London — Bugs have survived, evolved and adapted for millions of years, before humans even existed, yet most humans still consider them inferior. Insects are diverse and resilient, throughout history they’ve s...
Hong kong — In his budget address last week, Finance Secretary John Tsang Chun-wah announced he wants to bring food trucks to Hong Kong. The idea seems to have not really thought out or the government has complet...
San francisco — As one does on a nice sunny day you strap a bag to your back and find the longest road in this new city you are exploring - and run it. That’s if you are a runner. If you’re a temporary runner/ jogge...
San francisco — She kept no attachments. Sentimentality an affliction of the weak. The unable-to-move-forward. She absolutely had to be able to pack up and get out at any time. She loved the feeling of slipping away ...