Blue Boat Home

  May 2022 review     Good ·       I’m still using the gifts of my friend’s coupon. ·       Our second flat was put to rent. ·       I bought summer clothes. A big thank you to Vasai baker @donutdelicacies for recommending Janata Bazaar in Vasai West from where I bought the clothes in the uploaded picture. ·       I took multiple baths daily which were comforting. ·       @chriswaskomedium and @theeleganceadvisor on Instagram are amazing women who help me. ·       I enjoyed drizzles. Bad ·       The sweltering summer heat is taking a toll on me. ·       I am rapidly gaining weight. ·       My cat doesn’t come upstairs to eat daily as he’s fed downstairs, which is good for him though. ·       Illnes...

  Mother Earth’s natural perfume Yesterday it drizzled in the morning. The soothing smell of the damp ground reached my nostrils after months. Rain is the earth’s natural fragrance. Clay, sandy, silty, peaty, chalky, loamy- when fresh rain kisses these soils when dry,   different scents are born. These aromas evolve further when they weave themselves on invisible strings with the vegetation that drapes the earth. Different vegetation will bestow their unique perfumes. If the air is clean, these smells may be purer, maybe heavenly. Pollution will taint the purity of the earth’s innate cologne. #perfume, #perfumes, #perfumelover, #perfumeoriginal, #perfumeoftheday, #scent, #scentoftheday, #scents, #scentsylife, #scentsylove, #scentsyaddict, #scented, #scentlover, #scentoriginal, #scentedflowers, #earth, #discoverearth, #earthmother, #motherearth, #earthlove, #awesomeearth, #earthbeauty, #earthcolours, #naturelovers, #nature, #naturephotography, #naturegram, #natureaddict, #n...

  Chris Wasko @chriswaskomedium [Instagram] www.chriswasko.com   It was a magical moment when this amazing woman ascertained my personality, life goals and grudges correctly. She did that without judgment, kindly and with a smiling face. Chris Wasko thinks originally and explains with empathy. She is the only spiritual healer I know who gets narcissistic abuse and its effects. Most are clueless about this as per my experience.   After talking to Chris, I hung pictures of angels in my room and started feeling their soothing presence. Mashi often sees these heavenly beings treading beyond the threshold of our home in her dreams.   #magic, #magicmoments, #magichappens, #magical, #magicnight, #magiclife, #magicalmoments, #magicworld, #angel, #angelsarebeautiful, #angelcards, #angelmessages, #angelwings, #narcissism, #healingfromnarcissisticabuse   Picture: Pixabay   Source: https://pixabay.com/illustrations/angel-biblical-christianity-13...

  First Drizzle This morning [26 May 2022] when I was asleep, the parched earth in my neighbourhood received its first pre-monsoon drizzle. More clouds are making their welcome arrival in the sky above. They’ll gradually drape themselves in greyer hues. Then the dance drama of the cloud kingdom will start when it will shower its mercy on the ground below. Summer is on its way out as the clouds draw a natural curtain on it and simultaneously on summer, heralding monsoon on the colourful stage of seasons. #drizzle, #drizzledrizzle, #drizzlemelts, #drizzledrop, #drizzlelovers, #clouddrizzle, #rain, #rainyday, #rainymood, #rainy, #raining, #raindrops, #rainphotography, #rainlover, #rainclouds, #rainymorning, #rainwater, #rainfall, #premonsoon, #monsooniscoming, #monsooninindia, #monsoon2022, #whiteclouds, #greyclouds, #premonsoon2022, #premonsoonshowers, #premonsoonclouds, #premonsoonweather, #premonsoonsky, #premonsoonrain Pictures: Pixabay  

The Elegance Adviser @theeleganceadvisor [Instagram] Some psychologists have said that I may be slightly autistic. I realize that I sometimes say things which offend people, though that’s not my intention. When neurotypicals insult people knowingly, that’s worse. Nevertheless, I didn’t want to go on hurting people, so I was searching for someone who’ll explain the rules of polite behaviour. That’s when I fortunately found the profile of @theeleganceadvisor on Instagram. People, whether neurodivergent or neurotypical are unaware of many of the ways of courteous behaviour that she teaches, so I’m recommending this page strongly. What helps me most about her page is how to gently and clearly communicate for different scenarios. She outlines the conversation in simple steps on how to crisply convey what you have to say respectfully. She has also replied very elegantly to me when I’ve PMed her on what to do in various scenarios, some very challenging. I changed my mode of interacting with p...

Danish Bashir Therapist Narcissistic Abuse Recovery coach   For years I couldn’t seek clarity on why the people who went on abusing me did so. The years were grotesque and I live with trauma triggers daily. Most people, including psychologists I visited, were clueless about what narcissistic abuse does to people. I was shamed further by them instead of soothed. Many of them caused further hurt. Helplines were the worst, they fumbled while counselling me, said they couldn’t make sense of what I had gone through, asked inane questions and gave me generalized coping methods which don’t apply to survivors of narcissistic abuse. They copied and pasted lines like, “Oh how sad!” repeatedly pretending to empathize in emails. One day, I came across videos regarding narcissistic abuse by mental health professionals who were good but lacked intersection as they were white doctors who didn’t know about the societal and family dimensions which are interwoven into the pattern of mist...

  Update on the man who attempted suicide He was close to death with shallow breathing and a stiff and cold body. The doctors at the hospital saved his life. His brothers didn’t want to shelter him as he is an alcoholic. His aunt wasn’t ready to accommodate him as the evening before he consumed pesticide, he had lost their bicycle. The villagers of that neighbourhood were getting ready to gather as a mob and beat him as suicide is a sin according to them. Penniless, he went to one of his brother’s home and started drinking and getting drunk again much to his sister-in-law’s annoyance. They feel that the best way to solve this fast is to get him married. He has a five-year-old son from a previous girlfriend. As he squanders whatever he earns on alcohol, he can’t take care of the boy. The child is raised by his maternal grandparents whereas his girlfriend is happily married to someone else now. There is a young woman who wanders about the village in a disoriented manner. She re...

  Endless summer ending Monsoon has arrived in India I grew up in Kolkata, where our school was closed for summer vacation during this time. We’d go for trips to nearby places during this season or stay in the city where we’d swim daily, often in a lake full of snakes, fishes and frogs. Our family travelled to the tiny and calm hill station of Mirik which is one of the most memorable travels of my lifetime. This summer seems to be never-ending making headlines globally about our heat waves. We hear that the cloud kingdom is showering mercifully on our country’s Andaman and Nicobar islands. The dark and grey majestic clouds are sweeping over our oceans to make their dramatic entry to our mainland. Their messengers, wisps of fleeting clouds make their welcome entry to the sky above my town to tell us, “Have little patience. Monsoon has entered the stage of seasons in India through its wings. Summer is almost over.” I loved to personify each cloud, enlivening each one with a h...

  Penguin’s birthday, Buddha Purnima, Lunar Eclipse, Blood Moon! Four dramatic events are coinciding on this day. Penguin [@indian.devil.angel] who has been named so by me for his honey saturated cuteness has his birthday today. This is the sweet boy whom I had noticed a decade ago being grumpy on social media on every birthday. I was too shy to send him a friend’s request or communicate with him. He was the friend of a friend.   Lovable Penguin, the eclipse will not act as a spoilt sport on the shimmering radiance of your birthday today. It’ll be filled by the luminescence of the full moon. The red moon is peaking on the other half of our blue boat home as I type this in. So, the amiable and artistic Penguin will not be able to take amazing clicks tonight. I love you Penguin! My lovely friend, have a great day! Let the serenity of the Buddha bring calmness into this year of your life. A friend is someone who knows everything about your life and still loves you- the Bu...

  Man consumes pesticide As I write this, a young man is fighting for his life. He is an alcoholic and is always in and out of jail. This morning he put pesticide in his spirit and drank it. His body is turning cold and he can hardly breathe. He is in a queue for admission to the hospital for the poor where detailed paperwork is going on as protocols dictate that a police case must be registered before further proceeding. These rules delay saving those who attempt suicide. We aren’t sure if this was accidental or deliberate mixing. The treatment of patients who try to take their lives is shocking in supposedly good private hospitals as well. In one of these places, the person who attempted it was slapped several times by the doctor and as he felt that an evil person like this deserves mistreatment, ward boys were ordered to strip her naked to change her into a gown as there was no nurse at the emergency room. In the case of domestic violence when a person tries to kill onesel...

  Summer of 2022 This is a summer that Indians will not forget. We are all together in this cauldron in different ways. When the pandemic started, messages flooded social media that we are all suffering to the same degree during this time. This was a highly ableist comment because some were uploading pictures claiming to be atop the spirituality barometer writing, “This time is God sent, I hope it never ends.” Many of them in their air conditioned homes were relishing gourmet meals, exercising in their multi-gym and had ample money. Elsewhere the story was different. Many had lost their jobs, were facing domestic violence, couldn’t source necessities where they lived, were dying, etc. Please try to understand that we are all tormented by this heat in different proportions as per our level of privilege. I’ve seen lifestyle bloggers who are wearing sweaters this summer and getting many likes. Their daily routine is staying in an air conditioned room all day, then stepping into an...