Gently and Quietly

The air is soft. The wind is mellow. The sun warms the very bones of this good old earth. The world thaws. The remaining patches of snow is sucked deep into the ground.… Read More →

Memoirs of a Kampung Girl

I dedicate this post to all my friends in Malaysia who made my growing up years one which I always look back with a quiet contentment in my heart. And a huge grin… Read More →

Awakening to our Destiny

“With the utmost joy and gladness, serve ye the human world, and love ye the human race…Wherefore, rest ye not, be it for an instant; seek ye not a minute’s respite nor a… Read More →

One Soul. One Heart.

“Ye were created to show love one to another and not perversity and rancour. Take pride not in love for yourselves but in love for your fellow-creatures. Glory not in love for your… Read More →

What I have Learned from Watching the Birds

Sometimes when I become unsure of life, I take a moment to look at the birds. At their wonderful sense of ease and assurance. Their unmistakeable confidence. The unruffled presence. There is a… Read More →

The Treasure of Encouragement

“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the single candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”~ The Buddha Encouragement is commonly understood… Read More →

The Housewife’s Guide to Tackling Poverty

“O Children of dust! Tell the rich of the midnight sighing of the poor…” ~ Baha’u’llah I once saw a child barely two years old sitting on a heap of wet filth sifting… Read More →

In the Garden of the gods

Have you ever seen a butterfly free fall? weightless white petal wings. Have you ever seen a garden dove preen? or caught the glint in the eye of a sparrow? Have you ever seen… Read More →

Weekly Photo Challenge: Lost in the Details

  I sat on these old, intricate floor tiles in the inner courtyard of a Chinese temple one hot humid afternoon in Penang. Nestled deep within a vast courtyard, the Han Jiang Teochew Temple… Read More →

The Pearl of the Orient

“Penang is the kind of place that ruined me for an ordinary life.” ~ Anthony Bourdain I was born in Penang. I think that alone makes up for everything else in life. I… Read More →