Doorways of the Mind (edited)

This visual, captured by blogger friend Sangeeta Khanna , while cycling across the Ladakhi landscape as part of the Kullu Kahrdung La MTB Cycle expedition, would possibly stand as a beacon of hope, for those unfortunate ones, who have lost all the color in their lives.

It is also a shining example , of how things are never black and white. How we must never give up hope, no matter how tough the environment.

Nature has a way of bringing a smile into your lives.


(photograph by Sangeeta Khanna)
Tough and wizened,
facing personal calamities
like a rock,
she lives,
facing each day,
unwavering
in a biting North wind,
with a lot of
hope,
good sense,
and
fortitude.

Papering over some cracks
with
an unwavering belief,
that
be it aeons later,
but,
the little one
will return.

She nudges
happily,
the little grasses
around her,
and cleanses her face
with some serious scrubbing
till it shines.

The flowers of hope
that
had been blooming,
now
hang over the door.

An old grandma
welcomes you,
to step in
through
the
Doorways of her Mind.


Edited to add : Sangeeta herself is an accomplished research botanist, wonderful blogger, homemaker, and also a poet. Do read her totally amazing take on this same visual on her own blogpost "The Himalayas conspired.... "