LET'S CROSSOVER

I'm not quite sure what I'm doing here. A photo blog was the initial proposition in my head. For pictures are fast becoming my source of inspiration and medium of expression. But words, too, are capable of weaving magic of their own. So a cross between the two is where I think my Tumblr is headed. A photograph here, a sprinkling of words there. Let's hit this road now!

[mehreenkasana]

Haven’t slept all night. No amount of crying brings comfort or even a semblance of catharsis. My heart aches uncontrollably. Thank you for your warm messages and solidarity with Pakistan. It helps in so many ways.

Given how utterly disrespected and taken-for-granted Pakistani life is, regardless...

[cocoapuffbabe]

[e-levn]

“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness – and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe. The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling – their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability. Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them. Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.” ― Arundhati Roy, War Talk

[traversingtales]

"Kehdo in hasraton se kahin aur ja basen, itni jagah kahan hai dil-e-daagdaar mein. Umr-e-daraz mang ke laye the chaar din. do aarzoo mein kat gaye do intezaar mein."

Bahadur Shah Zafar

[traversingtales]

“The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. And these qualities have little to do with success as we have defined it.” - David. W. Orr

[traversingtales]

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[traversingtales]

You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place. Like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way ever again. - Azar Nafisi

[traversingtales]

"The more you read about Sufism, the more you have to listen. In time I became emotionally attached. When I was younger I wasn’t interested in understanding the world. I only wanted to change it, through feminism or nihilism or environmentalism. But the more I read about Sufism the more I unlearned. Because that is what Sufism does to you, it makes you erase what you know, what you are so sure of. And then start thinking again. Not with your mind this time, but with your heart."

Elif Şafak

[traversingtales]

I don’t think it should be socially acceptable for people to say they are “bad with names.” No one is bad with names. That is not a real thing. Not knowing people’s names isn’t a neurological condition; it’s a choice. You choose not to make learning people’s names a priority. It’s like saying, “Hey, a disclaimer about me: I’m rude.

Mindy Kaling

[traversingtales]

“If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself. If you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.”

Lao Tzu

[traversingtales]

Three dots means to be continued. Four dots is a typo. Five dots means ‘Do not make me say what I want to say, baby. But if I did, it would blow your mind.’ Dot, dot, dot, dot, dot.

Mindy Kaling

[traversingtales]

This.

This is place I seek in my journey. Sit on that wooden bench and read a book. Or listen to the chirping of birds. Or lay my head on someone's shoulder as they talk to me. And feel calmness and serenity. This is the place I want to be found. This must be the place.

[becauseilovehimonly]

[traversingtales]

After patience, a beautiful thing awaits.

[traversingtales]

Some people making a point. We've all been there.

“No, I didn’t—th—I—nothing! I just, I didn’t mean it like—I just—we can’t like that, because that’s not…do you know, like? It’s very like you don’t—that’s not what it?”

[traversingtales]

“Daydream delusion Limousine Eyelash Oh, baby with your pretty face Drop a tear in my wineglass Look at those big eyes See what you mean to me Sweet cakes and milkshakes I am a delusion angel I am a fantasy parade I want you to know what I think Don’t want you to guess anymore You have no idea where I came from We have no idea where we’re going Launched in life Like branches in the river Flowing downstream Caught in the current I’ll carry you. You’ll carry me That’s how it could be Don’t you know me? Don’t you know me by now?”

- Before Sunrise

[traversingtales]

"Coming true is not the only purpose of a dream. Its most important purpose is to get us in touch with where dreams come from, where passion comes from, where happiness comes from. Even a shattered dream can do that for you."

– Lisa Bu

[frangibilities-deactivated20160]

[traversingtales]

“Being tender and open is beautiful. Don’t let someone steal your tenderness. Don’t allow the coldness and fear of others to tarnish your perfectly vulnerable beating heart. Nothing is more powerful than allowing yourself to truly be affected by things. Whether it’s a song, a stranger, a mountain, a tea kettle, an article, a sentence, a footstep, feel it all – look around you. All of this is for you. Take it and have gratitude. Give it and feel love.”

Zooey Deschanel

Refreshing and heartening :)