here’s to
SLOW BEGINNINGS
a curated collection to ease into the year
let’s start by setting
the playlist right
let’s dive deeper
The Artist's Way
A 12 week program to unlock your creativity and discover or rediscover your artistic self. Perfect for January intentions.
Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
A meditation on seasons of rest, giving yourself permission to slow down when the world demands you speed up.
The Palace of Illusions
The Mahabharata retold through the POV of Draupadi. A story of finding your voice, even when the world tries to silence it.
watchlist recommendation
recipe to try
Til ke Ladoo (Sesame Seed Balls)
Sankranti sweetness, winter energy
Ingredients:
1 cup sesame seeds (til)
3/4 cup jaggery (gur)
1 tbsp ghee
Pinch of cardamom powder
Method:
Dry roast sesame seeds till they pop slightly
Melt jaggery with 1-2 tbsp water and ghee
Mix roasted til into jaggery syrup
Let it cool slightly
Grease your palms with ghee, shape into small balls
Let them set
.january ritual
Find a spot where the sunlight falls in the morning: a windowsill, balcony, or your favourite park.
Sit there for 10 minutes without your phone. Just you and the light. Notice how it feels.
Come back to this spot whenever the world feels too fast.
a little something to carry along
WHERE THE MIND IS WITHOUT FEAR
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; Where words come out from the depth of truth; Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection; Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit; Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever widening thought and action— Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
— Rabindranath Tagore
धीरेधीरे रे मना, धीरे सब कुछ होय।
माली सींचे सौ घड़ा, ऋतु आए फल होय।
— Kabir
Slowly, slowly, O mind, everything happens in its own time. The gardener may water with a hundred pots, but fruit comes only in its season.
…and, if all of this is still not enough…
