This is my 1st attempt at acrylic painting. I was looking for a Buddha painting for a while to buy for home but never liked any. Suddenly one fine day I found this awesome video on YouTube and I knew I had to do this. Try it out . It’s fun, easy and low cost. Needed only 4 colors, canvas and paint brush. I already had canvas sitting at home, black color I had so bought 3 colors and paint brush set . So it was around 5 bucks I paid for supplies. Here’s the link.
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Life is a school and it’s good to stay in learning mode . People say they don’t have time but you might be busy watching TV , movies or doing useless things. Other excuse is age but you can learn at any age. It might take longer but who cares. You are not trying to make career out of it.
Learning music , instrument or in general new things is good for brain. You make new connections. It needs concentration, practice. As you learn, other areas of your life will improve too.
I learned harmonium with singing few years back for abt a year locally with yoga friends. That’s been very useful . Once you learn basics, you can find YouTube videos and learn more.
After you learn , you go and perform wherever you get opportunity. Performing in front of audience is a whole new ball game . You make mistakes , mess up and learn from it. More you do , it gets better.
Recently my yoga teacher did hidden talent show and I played harmonium and sang a Bollywood song. And let me tell you singing is not my forte at all. I forgot lyrics , played few wrong notes but it’s ok.
Then I did yoga demo for my company’s Diwali festival. This was 3rd time and I have got better every year. May be next year I will play music instrument too there. Hey, I need practice to perform in front of audience and no one is volunteering so I grab opportunities.
It’s really fun to learn music and everyone can learn it . It’s just practice. Once you learn , you will become inspiration for others. If you are music lover , or trying to learn something new give it a shot. It’s money well spent. Now with holiday season coming, you can gift someone music instrument or buy them few classes to get started .
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Pomegranate has been so much in news lately for it’s health benefits. Did you start eating them? If not , start it now. It’s good for heart health and symbolic for fertility. With so many tiny seeds inside a fruit and they are so fertile no wonder. Plant some and you will know. In India, it is advised to ppl suffering from diarrhea.
If you have Aldi store near by , they have them on sale in fall. It was 69cents this week near my store and they were all gone in 2 days. Indian stores also carry them. When pomegranate is good for your liking , plant some seeds.
How to eat them ? You can eat them just like that . Throw on some salad or chat or whatever you are eating . It will look exotic and is really good when you have party. It will make everything look exotic and your heart will be happy.
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There are so many festivals around the world and so does India. Living out of India , don’t see all festivities around and also I like to understand real meaning behind those festivals. Sharad purnina appeals to me as I love to look up to beautiful moon on full moon all year. On Some of the full moon with clear sky, it looks so pretty. Camara could never catch the beauty.
Other reason I love sharad Purnima is I love bhajiya and they are so easy and quick to make . Whatever festival you like, celebrate them , have fun but be safe and tailor it to according your family needs. If there’s health concern , change things around . Stay open and main thing is to have fun, break the routine.
Menu for me is some onion, potato bhajiya and dudh poha with raw sugar. And most important go out and look at pretty sky lighted with moon.
Happy Sharad Purnima !
Of someone or something… what do you do? Sometimes ppl talk abt how so and so doing this and that blah blah… how does it help me or you? When am in awe of something or someone I would see what I could do. Like when I was in awe of my yoga teacher meditating , I started meditating too. That way I know what it is and now I don’t need to be in awe mode anymore .
Some friends went hiking seeing my pictures of hiking or knowing the places they also could go. Upon knowing am learning harmonium, one friend learned too realizing he has harmonium expert right at home and not using opportunity. That’s how you take care of all your awes and wow …start doing it yourself and be proud , happy for yourself.
Picture is of Triple Fall, DuPont forest , NC.
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