April 6, 2019
issue #2
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Illustrated by Abhay Pratap Singh
let positivity engulf you
Creators
A Word from the
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4.Fate brings you here 6,The Warm Tones of Life 8. The Broken Dream Mended 10. Music Reviews 12. It’s Not Over 14. Happiness List 16. Where is Home? 17. Rhythm & Rhyme 18. Grace & Frankie (TV Series Review) 19. The Life of a Mumbaikar 20. When we planted our own, and our first garden 23. The Green Woods 24. Selflove 26. Hope 27. Sea Shells
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T H E W A R M T O N E S O F L I F E
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A yellow streak of light still lures me in. Yellow pages of a diary fascinate me. Yellow tshirts make me happy. Yellow makes me feel at home.
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I’m still not at a hundred per cent today, almost five years later. I may never be, and that’s okay. I have terrible days and I have good days but what matters is that I’m trying. What matters is that you are trying.
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Happiness List... Ferry
Beach
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Sprinkles
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Lantern
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Bonfire
Garden
Mundhra by Purnima
Holi
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Waves
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Lotus
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Where is Home?
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A TV-show Review of
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The Life of a Mumbaikar
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The Green Woods
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Accepting, rebooting, replanning. Now what? From here, where ? It's all possible. The fall is real and flight is in sight. No single situation is powerful enough to define you. What you do when you wake up next is what it's all about. With more love and more courage take the next step. Not stagnant in the brilliance of now and not swimming in the knowledge of what's already happened. MOVE BABY MOVE!!!!!!! It will be magic.
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Sea Shells They did come in waves, but I guess they had to go. I'm sorry that your friends left oh my sandy shores; but I'm here to wait, to sit, and to stay.
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And I'm done trying, walking through the broken glass;
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