... the victim of growing up....

"I've apparently been the victim of growing up, which apparently happens to all of us at one point or another. It's been going on for quite some time now, without me knowing it... back then naivety was the norm and skepticism was a foreign language, and I just think every once in a while you need fries and a chocolate milkshake and your mom. I love picking up a cookbook and closing my eyes and opening it to a random page, then attempting to make that recipe."

- Taylor Swift 

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Though I haven't clicked a single picture using my camera for over three months, I've signed up for NaBloWriM again. The intention this time is to attempt to capture my world by taking a photograph on my i-pad everyday during the month of October. Hope I can wing it!

F for Facade

“I start to feel like I can't maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew what was wrong. Maybe something about how stupid my whole life is. I don't know. Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don't know the answer, I know only that I can't. I don't want any more vicissitudes, I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I've had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

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This post forms a part of the Blogging for A to Z Challenge. A quote a day based on the chosen word. A photograph that means something to me in relation to the word, but may not to you.

A miracle

A miracle is something that seems impossible but happens anyway.
- Men In Black-3
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Words. Images. Thoughts. Ideas. Generalizations. Specifics. Stream of Consciousness.

Doesn't mean it is wrong

“Just because it's something original, eccentric or you're not used to it; doesn't mean it's wrong.”
― Sandra Chami Kassis

No Winter

“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
― Hal Borland 

Never let a thorn

“Some people are like thorns. But you have to let them be thorns, because thorns can't turn into petals. The trick is not letting them prick you; never let a thorn prick you!”
― C. JoyBell C.

do the thing

“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” -Eleanor Roosevelt

capable of living

"There is no passion to be found in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."
~ Nelson Mandela

if you hadn't seen the miracle

“It always amazes me to look at the little, wrinkled brown seeds and think of the rainbows in 'em," said Captain Jim. "When I ponder on them seeds I don't find it nowise hard to believe that we've got souls that'll live in other worlds. You couldn't hardly believe there was life in them tiny things, some no bigger than grains of dust, let alone colour and scent, if you hadn't seen the miracle, could you?”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams     

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Words. Images. Thoughts. Ideas. Generalizations. Specifics. Stream of Consciousness.
During the month of October, I am going to just watch things fall into place, or not!

New green was all over

“I made myself a glass of chocolate milk using enough syrup for three normal glasses. I also made myself four peanut butter crackers. Then I walked out the living room door to our terrace. The trees were coming! New green was all over ... green so new that it was kissing yellow.”
― E.L. Konigsburg, Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley and Me, Elizabeth
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Words. Images. Thoughts. Ideas. Generalizations. Specifics. Stream of Consciousness.
During the month of October, I am going to just watch things fall into place, or not!

Every flower is to bloom

"It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower is to bloom." 

—Alice Walker

20 years ago

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now." 

Old Chinese proverb

First time

“Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”

Betty Smith

The only reason....

“The only reason for time is so that 

everything doesn't happen at once.”
Albert Einstein

Andheri, Mumbai

April 2012

.. an icon

"I never think of myself as an icon. What's in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing." Audrey Hepburn

...achieved perfection...

"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, 
but when there is nothing left to take away."

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

.... into the heart of the night

“Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.”

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

... springs that are yours

"For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours."
Pam Brown

... the hand that does not grasp.

"The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp."
~ John Berry

.. the morning dew...

"Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been."

~ Samuel Daniel