Kamna's Blog

I was 12 years old and my family and I were on our trip to chilly Jammu to visit a temple up very high in the mountains.  I was afraid of the climb: the almost 10 kilometre hike up the mountain. So my parents put me on a horse to ascend to the very top. On the way up a particularly steep horse path, I happened to look back to see very dense darkness of a pine forest. It was beautiful, no doubt, but considering it was 12 noon and the rest of the landscape was sunny and bright, that one glance down was quite breathtaking in a thrilling way.  Almost instantly after I saw this dark forest foliage, the horse bent down low; a misstep that could have very easily cost me my life.  My heart started beating 10,000 beats per minute and I simply couldn't calm down. I couldn't say anything either as I was all on my own and I had to brave. I was a young girl alone in the mountains and I didn't want to draw any unwanted attention to myself. In another 15 minutes or so we reached the ver...

The moving light is heading to the still light From all the way up in the stratosphere my guess is that's a car and that's a home But the moving light doesn't stop at the still light The car doesn't go home The moving light is moving, still moving and then I don't see it anymore as my flight is moving much faster All this happens in less than one second It's enough to spark this idea that maybe the moving light doesn't need to stop moving And more importantly Why did it I want it to run perfectly and then stop and join and unite and meet the still light? Maybe the still light is happy to stay still The moving light is happy to keep moving till it decides it wants to be still Maybe the still light moved a lot too like the moving light did So then why am I wanting the moving light to collide with another moving light and come together to become one big light? Maybe that's how stars work too In the beginning there were two stars that collided into one big s...

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I know what song that smell is The second I get a sniff, it takes me back to that beat I can hear it resounding in my very bones A connection too profound to discern And to go off and reverse the gears: Should there be a Shazam for scents Perfumes would sell more than they do Not knowing what the scent is that triggered the full blown musical in your head is frustrating Does "within the hour" mean before that specific hour ends or within sixty minutes? Or names that end with the letter "R"? Does "bi-weekly" mean every 2 weeks or twice a week? Or an Indian maid that comes in weekly? If I like the sunset more than the sunrise does that mean I like sitting down more than getting back up? When you find purple bruises on your body it's such a revealing moment because you realize your body is so vast and there is so much buzzing activity - heart being pumped; uterian lining being shed; a follicle under your chin sprouting out a tiny peep of hair. Your body d...

Give Give into me I am darkness I am where the unexpected lives I am also where you archive things Things you thought you'd move on from Things you knew you could revisit later Take Take from me what you must I'll share the thoughts that tickle you I'll share your favourite stashes of hoarded emotion I'll share the stuff that makes you smile in a sad way Stuff you felt you never needed but want anyway Stuff you got to have, compulsively, unhealthily Bring Bring me what I like I like things I like stuff too I like things and stuff of my own, believe it or not Things and stuff that I think I want Things and stuff that I know I need

Overwhelmed by visual stimuli I've forgotten the 16 things I was meaning to Google in the last 24 hours Maybe if I rewind to that episode where a mental lightbulb was lit it would come back to me? Or maybe if I just slow down and stop, close my eyes and try and empty my mind the best thing will appear magically? How much of your life is wasted because you forgot to record to relive it later? Does spontaneous ideating to spontaneously forgetting the idea mean you should obsessively stop and write the second the idea strikes you as lightning? And if it's visual stimulus that's the brainchild of the idea, does blinking repeatedly (not unnaturally) over time add to the idea's erosion? There's so much you can do with your time if you pay attention to your brain. If you amuse yourself thoroughly with every idea and allow yourself to go down the deliciously fulfilling internet research of it. Or even your own musings! How do you ensure the security of such a mind? And by s...

She opens my eyelids comically and methodically With adorably squinty concentrating effort Takes a spoonful of sleep and pours it in systematically Just like that I feel the carby slowdown of my entire body My declining posture from sitting to half sitting to the most bad-for-your-back half lie down Sleep, she comes in such a sure and entitled way: "I own you for the next 7-9 hours" Mr. Bladder quietly from downstairs, "We'll see about that" Sometimes, Sleep, see she can elude you. No rest for the wicked is what people say. An empty mind is the devil's workshop they say. But aren't you supposed to empty your mind in order to attract a restful state of mind conducive to sleep? Does lucid dreaming come easily to Type As? It would be frustrating for them if it didn't There's so much you can do instead with the time you're body's slaved to sleep Invention of water vacuums or is it vaccums That would make it so no toilet floor wou...