Tag: faith

• Thinking About the Floating Dead

  

  The painting above is a depiction of Shakespeare’s Ophelia from Hamlet. The haunting scene describes how Ophelia, driven out of her mind when her father is murdered by her lover Hamlet, falls into a stream and drowns: There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke; When down her weedy […]

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  16 Jan 2019

  Art, Film, Gender, Read, Story

  Adrienne Rich, art, baptism, blooms, bodies, corporeal, drown, drowning, faith, floating, floral, flowers, foetal, Ghazal, hamlet, image, john everett millais, kumbh mela, letting go, longreads, membrane, mermaid like, metaphor, millais, mindscape, mrs dalloway, ophelia, painting, shakespeare, symbol, tate, the american ghazal, the body, the body remembers, thoughts, virginia woolf, visceral

• Bohemian Ifs and Classical Butts at the Hermitage

  

  I had mentioned in my previous post of how we had spent a day at the Hermitage Museum and I wanted to share the pictures with you. It was a day of contrasts: the classical beauties in the museum alongside the rusted beauties on the canals. Each unique in their own way. I was hesitant to […]

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  28 Sep 2018

  Academic, Art, Audience, Awareness, Customer Review, Gender, Photography, Story, Travel

  amsterdam, amsterdam canals, ancient greek art, angels, art history, artists, artworks, blog, boats, canals, certain things, city, classical, classical beauties, contrasts, dutch, dutch culture, dutch news, faith, feedback, fun, hermitage, history, home, journal, juxtapositions, learning, life, looking, marble, museum, my city, nudity, photos, places, pride, religion, sculpture, sexuality, space, things to do in amsterdam, Travel

• We must Feast: Vaals trip learning

  

  The biggest learning, which 2017 brought for me, was that things often do not go as planned, and that is a gift. As an INTJ – MBTI profile I am a goal-oriented person. I make lists. I systematically work towards tackling the topics on my list. I diligently mark them off, one by one, in order, […]

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  2 Jan 2018

  Apoorva, Parenting, Photography, Story, Travel

  2017, 2018, bilderberg, bye felicia, bye year, carpe diem, dining, disruption, dutch, eating out, faith, family, food, happy new year, home, intj, journal, learning, life, limburg, limburg cuisine, mbti, Netherlands, photos, places, precious, religion, roadtrip, space, the artist life, the gift, this is life, this is not life, Travel, vaals, Writing

• Lisbon day 4: Belem and Museu Berardo

  

  Belem pichkari jo tune mujhe maari Toh bole re zamana kharabi ho gayi Planning the day for Belem had Apoorva constantly singing this warped song and now everytime I think of Belem this tune is stuck in my head, HELP! Belem is gorgeous. What an inadequate adjective to use, so let me try harder, the sky is […]

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  24 Aug 2017

  Academic, Apoorva, Gender, Parenting, Photography, Story, Travel

  animals, art, belem, belem tower, blog, discover, duck, duckling, Earth, exhibits, faith, feminism, film, fun, genetics, happiness, home, journal, learning, life, lisboa, lisbon, living with the enemy, marina, meta, mobility, modern art, monument, museu berardo, museums, pedro neves marques, photos, places, politics, portugal, religion, River, space, sun, tagus, technology, thoughts, Travel, warhol, water, work, Writing

• In A World of Food and Books

  

  Everytime we visit the Foodhallen my faith in humanity is restored. You might think that is a bit of an exaggeration but it is true. Let me explain, firstly, it is a recycle project, and you know how much I like those (remember this post about The High Line). So, while it commercially opened as a […]

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  22 Jul 2017

  Apoorva, Art, Books, Customer Review, Film, Food, Parenting, Photography, Story, Travel

  amsterdam, community, culture, dessert, dimsum, doner, dutch, eating out, energy, faith, family, food, food review, foodhallen, fun, hanging out, hope, hot dog, life, mobility, movies, multi cuisine, my city, new and old, photos, places, see the pictures, space, the high line, the netherlands, thriving, trams, Travel