This is a long post, so grab that cup of tea before you start reading.
I have been wanting to write about a lot of things but I am going to start with the most important one: gratitude. This year has been special for me because of two important milestones. I can't really claim special credit for them because, on the surface, they indicate only the passage of time. I have been married for 15 years this year and I am turning 40 in a few days. All I can express is gratitude for each day of my marriage and for my husband who has been there for me on every one of those days.
The turning 40 part... I want to be honest with you. I am happy to be turning 40. I don't want to go back to the late twenties or the thirties. The last few many years have been tough for a variety of reasons, some of them too personal to discuss on the impersonal world wide web but all those adversities have gone into making me, the me of today. Stronger and kinder.
I am also grateful for this blog. When I started writing this blog, it was a way to express myself and to bookmark and share the creative and the beautiful. Why interior design? People have expressed many reactions to this and it ranges from outright disdain to curiosity and unabashed pleasure. I am not an interior designer or an artist or a DIY maven but I love creativity and every time, I sit down to blog, I feel happier. And I can't think a bigger or better reason to continue blogging than that one.
And I owe so much gratitude to the modest California ranch that we live in! I love this house and am grateful to it for inspiring in me an interest in design and decor (I research diseases for a living). It is not perfect and I don't know if it can ever be (kinda like me). It has withstood all the higgledy-piggledy changes it's owners have wrought, welcomed more visitors than I can keep track of, has enough fruit trees for us to run a farmers' market all by ourselves, has a resident bird family who think it's their house.. the list goes on and could fill an entire book (that's something I would love to do: write a book).
I would love to hear from you: your thoughts and what you are grateful for.
Image credits/copyright: Random corners of my home, taken by me.
It is one of the most beautiful and honest blog I have read. It kind of ours on paper what I feel, so I feel connected to you through your blog and more....even though we live many miles ay and have never met each other...
ReplyDeleteI wish you many more such blissful years of life and of your marriage.....
God bless!
@Anonymous, thank you and to you too :)
ReplyDeleteJust when I am having a rough day (again too personal to disclose), your post was like a fresh shower. My thoughts are the same.."all those adversities have gone into making me, the me of today. Stronger and kinder. " and yes, I do feel happy blogging. When I cannot share my trials and tribulation with someone next to me, just writing helps me refocus and divert at the same time! Happy anniversary and birthday!!! :) Passage of time should also be celebrated...
ReplyDeletePragyan, Thank you so much. It means a lot to me. Hope your days get better soon.
ReplyDeleteThis is indeed an honest post..! I have been silently following your blog.. and You do love the design decor honestly.. the way you write them here..! Also, I never thought that you must me old (i wondered you are in early 30s or so).. A well hearty birthday wish to you Priya.. and advance wishes for the anniversary..! Coming to what I am grateful for, have to think.. may be that twitchy worm inside my brain to look at good colours,great decors and designs (obviously or else I would have never bumped into your blog)... :) The passion for hoarding (thats what my bitter half says) cups, owls, bells, and a penniless crazy stuff.. oh plants..!I guess I am diseased with that worm ..!But I love it.. And I enjoy it..
ReplyDeleteI am knowing slowly that world has so many beautiful people around with commonalities..!
Hugs
Amtrips
Amrita, no, 40 isn't old :)! Thank you for sharing what you are grateful for and for the good wishes!
ReplyDeletehappy b' day in advance. and may u have many many more.
ReplyDeletememom
Hi,
ReplyDeleteI am following ur blog since long time, but never realized u live in california. I live in Bakersfield, california. Where ru? May be we can meet for a cup of tea. Happy birthday, enjoy.
Memom,
ReplyDeleteThank you:)
Hi, I live in the SF Bay area, email me if you are coming this side :)
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday, Priya!! You bring your design interests to life for all of us very beautifully; and I hope you it multiplies to reflect even more beauty back to you.
ReplyDeleteMy gratitude is very similar to yours: The years for their wisdom (i hope), and my husband, and all my family, for their unwavering support!
ps: i research diseases too! We should totally meet up!
It was beautiful and a very peaceful post to read......The honesty and sincerity that went in writing it was very evident and I enjoyed it more for the personal element that you added which gave it the perfect spark.Again very beautiful and honest attempt :)
ReplyDeleteStronger and Kinder....You go, bday girl!!
ReplyDeleteLove your blog, your posts and the way you are so TRUE to what you love..your innate style:)
Banyan city girl,
ReplyDeleteThank you! Email me if you are coming this way!
Anonymous, thank you :)
ReplyDelete@Anonymous, much thanks :)
ReplyDeleteGrateful ummm there are so many things ,last few years have been very enriching for me ,learnt so many new things,discovered a new me ,and ya blogging thought me so many things ,,,,and ya I am grateful for this beautiful life too,,,
ReplyDelete@notyet100, thank you for sharing! Good luck!
ReplyDeleteLovely post! Hope you had a wonderful 40th!
ReplyDeletewould love to see pics of your beautiful home :)