Chatterboxerr

I talk, a lot. And reading is my first love. So they asked me to write. Kapisch? Find my blog at chatterboxerr.wordpress.com

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When the happy lines came back!

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Your demons

These demons that you try to fight

Of your own making or otherwise

These demons that you carry around

Like it’s the price of living

It isn’t, it needn’t be

Put down your weapons

Lower your guard

These demons that you face

Will actually walk away

If you do the same

They’ll turn to speck and nothing

In your wake

Please, walk on

-AKL

7/20/2019

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Random bouts of smiles

I just passed by you

A slow smile etched on your face

As you walked by, lost to the world

Transferred on to my face

From an absolute stranger

Who has never laid eyes on me

Contagious it is, random bouts of happiness.

~ AKL

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The problem in our lives

The problem

In our lives

Is the simple fact that

Anticipation of an occurrence

Is oft more exciting than

The damned event itself.

~AKL/said a billion times over by a billon people through a billion different mediums

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The happy ebb

Today is one such day

Where I don’t even have to

Squeeze my eyes shut

To send out good vibes

Today all I need to do is

be

And I can feel the good vibes

Coming in and ebbing outward

Never happier have I been

To be a mere conduit

To no end, to no purpose:)

~AKL

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Exhaustion

A million truths flash before me

In this lacey mess of a life

I’m expected to take that first step

Then find motivation to take some more

And then keep walking or trotting

Irrespective of laces flung and designs formed

Colors, the range

Tentative steps to slow walks

I’ve been on this path numerous times

Now I just look for the door to knock

Where it’s alright to rest and be

Where laces flung…

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Bookprints .. Feb 2019 👣

An absolutely remarkable thing by Hank Green

This was a birthday gift from a good friend. This is probably a YA book, and at 27, probably not the target audience the author had in mind🤷🏻‍♀️

Disclaimer: When it comes to books, I usually don’t criticize or critique. Anyone who wrote a book did something I can never get my lazy ass to do: even think about writing a book.

It was one of those books…

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The ‘Today’ series .. Dec 23! I walked into Barnes and Noble earlier this year. This was when I'd just got done with my thesis and was applying for jobs.

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Sarcastic bites..back! Back after yet another long hiatus.. the sarcasm isn't for the taking yet but, mayhaps it might show up soon! ~AKL

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Rein in

My life

Not mine

Anyone else’s but mine

Oft have I been told

That it’s a myth

Or, that it’s me

Me who has handed over

The reins of my life

Why don’t they talk about

Society and the folks

Who take what isn’t theirs

Reins to my life

In the middle of the night

In the middle of my life

Leaving me mouth wide open

In utter disbelief.

~AKL

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The world machinates on

It takes me aback every time

When my life sees a plethora of hard change

And the world takes no note of it

Lives begin and end

Seasons come and go

Wrapped within the cocoon of his or her life

Irrespective of the darkness or light in my life

The world machinates on.

Of late I’ve begun to appreciate this nonchalance,

for it’s my biggest constant.

A constance that couldn’t care less about me ~

But…

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Phir?

You give in a little

You get pushed a little

A compromise here

A laugh and shaky acceptance there

A pull here and there

One on either side of the equation

You and them, one always

Undeserving of the other

You learn to just shrug it off, call it life and move on.

~AKL slowly penning down uncertainly after a long long hiatus. 👋🏿

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The beauty in being considerate.

Oft times as we grow up, our priorities are skewered and our behavior leaves much to be desired. We get carried away, and have a one dimensional projection on life. The concept of weights and balances, misplaced. It’s easy you see, to be caught up in ones one world of thoughts and ideas and problems, to notice the world of others around us.

This world we are fashioning everyday has newer issues…

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Feeling Icelandic

Reading Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner, and reached Iceland. Loved this poem, it sent out that vibe .. only a good poem manages to do that still:) 🧡 Loving this book. Netherlands, Switzerland, Bhutan, Qatar done, currently in Iceland! ~AK

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Footsteps to faith

Bad days. Existential crisis days. Senseless days. Hopeless, hapless, helpless days. Days when you want to zap yourself elsewhere. Drive into the sunset and never look back. Days when nothing will work, not Netflix nor people nor books nor hobbies. Why celebrate only the good days? Yin and yang, we celebrate it all. The bad days lead us back or towards faith. A god, spirits, a prayer, a chant, a…

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Chatterboxerr bookprints .. 👣.. March 2018.. The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner DO NOT ask me why I happened on this book so late in life. I don't know.

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Nothing quite like DIY

Hope your weekend was fun folks! A friend came in from Baltimore, and we went around trying to find wire hangers and other materials for some DIY projects on Pinterest. It’s surprisingly hard to find a wire hanger! – finally found it in one particular Walmart (hallelujah!). Every bookworm’s paradise, this, a book holder, it lets me turn pages. In some other stands I’ve tried using it’s been a…

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