Not bad for a first-time serious use of the @procreate app. This is a few hours’ worth of work. I could go on refining it, but I think I learnt what I needed to from this one. I am already on to the next with a slightly different approach.
A few years ago, my husband gave me an iPad complete with @procreate preloaded with a personalised Apple pencil as a birthday gift.
I tried it then but quickly lost patience and returned to traditional media. Two days ago, I decided to give it a try again. After all, how long could the iPad be used as a browsing tool and something to watch movies on on a flight?
I have been MIA from Instagram and Facebook because I am tired of the ‘push’ it keeps giving me in terms of metrics, etc. I have always refused to chase the algorithm. I don’t see a reason to change that now. With the way the world is right now and #menopausing, I need less clutter in my head.
I turned 50 last month, and as my husband and close friends tell me, this is supposedly ‘normal’ now. My son gets back from college in a week, and my daughter leaves for college in a month. My parents are almost 80. Life is short. I want to spend the remaining 1/3 (or thereabout) of my life being more present to life.
So I will post as and when I have something to share. If you would like to keep in touch and follow my progress, do add me to your favourites right here on Instagram or send me an email at [email protected] so I may add you to my email list. Fair warning, though, I rarely send out those subscriber emails. I should do more, but….
And the book I am re-reading is brilliant. Get it – you won’t regret it!!
The following words are taken from the write-up about the book and its authors on @thebangaloreroom.
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What happens when a physicist with a penchant for writing Sanskrit verse meets a Sanskritist with a weakness for poets? Love happens, in both Sanskrit and English! @suhas.msh Suhas Mahesh – and the Sanskritist – @anushasrao310 Anusha Rao – take us through their brilliant, contemporary, heartwarming, fresh, and super fun English translations of centuries of love poetry in Sanskrit (and some in Prakrit and some in Apabhramsha, and one in Pali), all of which are collected in their charmimg debut book ‘How To Love in Sanskrit’.
Thank you @glasshopperindia for the reference image ????
