Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan's Blog, page 44
July 14, 2020
Today in Photo
Post apocalyptic times call for post apocalyptic chappals. Dug out my @paaduks from a few years ago, made of old tyres, which we'll all have a lot of since we're never going anywhere again. (actually I'm at my mother's for our weekly visit but you know what I mean.) I love that they're good looking and ALSO made of tyres which I tell everyone, just like I do about pocketssss. #notanad #shoestory #coronavirusdiaries
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July 7, 2020
Today in Photo
A little cloud porn at the end of the world. Is this really Delhi? It is, and it only took a pandemic to fix the air. But still, all we're doing is staying alive, trying to stay healthy and not get sick, literally our only major life goal right now, just like our cave dwelling ancestors so it makes sense that nature is being large and lordly right now too, like, "check out what I can do, bitchezzz" #coronavirusdiaries #delhidiary #cloudscape
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July 6, 2020
July 2, 2020
Today in Photo
I finished the first draft of my ninth book yesterday. (Book 8 is written but I'm not ready to publish it yet so if this comes out first it will be book eight but we know it's really book nine, don't we?) A first draft means that I still have to fix a few things, it's not quite ready to be shown yet, but the fact that it exists outside my head is just..Wow. This feeling never gets old. Sharing here a photo of my last two weeks, I was doing too much faffing around and so to motivate myself I wrote down my word counts every day. (I wanted to knock it on the head swiftly so I could get down to making it better.)The reverse of this piece of paper is marathon sessions of 3000 or 4000 words a day but this is not bad either. When I was younger, I wrote a lot more without getting tired but that's the price of getting older and considering where your words fall, I guess. #authorlife #writingdemon
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June 27, 2020
Today in Photo
Happy birthday to my one and only! Perfect life and quarantine partner, not on any social media but that won't stop me from saying BIRTHDAY on here anyway. This is a photo from a trip to Goa three years ago, may there be many future trips for us when this weird year is over! #happybirthday
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June 24, 2020
Today in Photo
I bought K a hammock for his birthday on Sunday but he decided to start hammock life early along with other members of our household. (Squishy is kneading it and also closing his eyes when he's rocked, so it's extremely adorable in our balcony right now.) what a great way to see in the Delhi monsoon. We don't have a summer holiday this year but I'm attempting to make the FEEL happen even if I am writing like a demon. #squishytheblackcat #coronavirusdiaries #hammocklife #birthdayweek
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June 18, 2020
June 13, 2020
Today in Photo
More Rilke, this time on why you can't have free copies of my book and the perfect template for my future interactions. I sped read Letters To A Young Poet last night on a whim and also I needed some external inspiration and I'm happy to say it is as useful at 38 as it was at 18 when my mother first gave me a copy as other parents give their children with literary aspirations copies all throughout the world. #rainermariarilke #letterstoayoungpoet #nofreebies #writinglife
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June 7, 2020
Today in Photo
Made this yesterday. Words to live by for our 24/7 lockdown together times (plus cat, because everything is better with cat.) #catstagram #rainermariarilke #sketch #drawing #letterstoayoungpoet
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June 6, 2020
Today in Photo
God, it's been so long since I've been frivolous. Went to see an equally careful set of friends today. Carried our own wine glasses and hugged only through gestures etc. But I matched my mask to my dress and put on eyeliner for the first time in two months and sat across a table from people I am not related to for the first time in two months. It may be our last time, of course. We could go into another lockdown or get sick or something. But I feel like a large loneliness weight has been lifted off my shoulders. Other people! I'm an extrovert! Who knew? I'm going back into my self isolation now, but I feel less despair already. We will have to resume some sort of life eventually. I guess carefully around other careful people is a good start. #coronavirusdiaries
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