My Inspiration for February 2025

Feb 28, 2025

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As always, this month too I was stretched between feelings of hope, nostalgia and great sadness. As you may have noticed, I hadn’t written ‘my inspiration’ post for January because I was sick for a long time, but I am getting better and I am happy that spring is approaching. This month I was inspired by the books that I was reading, mainly Julie Smith’s ‘Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before’ and Joseph Campbell’s ‘Myths to Live By’, and I am also reading Turgenev’s ‘Spring Torrents’ which seemed fitting because March is starting tomorrow and with it the hope of spring. I really enjoyed the Telugu song ‘Inkem Inkem’ and Rashmika Mandanna’s beautiful pink sari in the temple scene. The magic of Umberto Brunelleschi’s illustrations has cast a spell on me too! And I also I discovered the YouTube channel SKJ Talks and I enjoyed watching many, many episodes of this Kerala-based show which deals with the social problems of India and the problems of the family dynamic in a critical and educational tone. Not to mention it is very funny too and the Malayalam is honey to my ears!

These days feel melancholy for me… rainy days… strange, cheangeable days, inbetween seasons… the Pisces season is starting but the astrological year is ending. Yesterday’s New Moon in Pisces brings a message of hope, of trusting the universe and of daring to dream big, bigger than before, and that is what I am trying to do.

“Life throbs in my distant heart… I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.”

(Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet)

“But I love such days—rare lonely days. I love above all things, my dear, to be alone.”

(Katherine Mansfield, in a letter to J.M. Murry, from