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Believe In Dreams and your voice

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Speak Your voice will speak through the walls because it is your voice giving power to your thoughts So speak because it is what makes you a human and humane. ©Sufi...5/11/18 Philosophies@Sufi Painting@Sufi There are a few things that keeps me awake at nights. I hardly sleep and I almost daydreaming about finding my name. I have done so, found my voice, my name, my calling and my path too. Yet I am restless and always searching. Maybe the soul is like that, it always needs to go on a quest and search for a higher knowledge of things. The first thing that really jolted me was going through the life of an Artist named Hokusai who during his death wished for more time to be able to master his craft and leave behind his best work. I understood the essence of time. The time spent in sulking on the things, the recognition or the financial support or anything that makes me think again and again about my decision of working as a full time writer and artist. It has already been 1
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Discovering Life and the hazed images of Time

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Adaab and Hello If you have a dream, Have the strength to live it too. -Sufi...9/10/18 It's hard to talk about certain things, especially about life because frankly no one has understood it completely ever. Days and night, months and years speed away and I keep aging and putting extra weight and worries, may be I do evolve in thinking and as a human too. I try to excel and be kind and generous, other times I sulk deeply and cry myself to sleep. Trying to reason with myself and not be hard on my dreams too. But it's all a scam to me and yet so enticing that I want to live this life and have experiences. This week was a bit lucrative than the other few, I sold two paintings and made a dozen illustrations. Got motivated by the kids in a nearby slum area whom I teach Art,  when they came to see my works. A part of my mandala series I got exhibited in a cafe in Kolkata. In august and September I performed in college and various literary events my poems and art perfo
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Inktober challenge, my passion for ink

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Inktober 2018 This entire year I have been constantly painting, exploring and experimenting. I try so hard to understand the blogger world but I have been never able to explore this place too much neither was I able to talk to any other bloggers. I have so much to share and learn but I would be thankful if some of you could help me out in this, so that I can be a regular in the blogging. Coming back to Inktober. I just came across this challenge this year. Watching some fascinating artists try this challenge and I was so inspired to take it myself. Insta actually opened my eyes to the world, I could really connect to the creative people all across the globe. I just wish it's more interactive at times rather than just pictures. Given I am an Artist and a writer, I crave for the human interactions alot. It inspires me to create something new everytime. So first five days challenge was like this Day 1 Poison  Day 2 Tranquil  Day 3 Roasted Day 4 Spell  Day 5 Chi
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Midnight Poetry with Sufi

Midnight Poetry with Sufi  https://youtu.be/buNY6BUQMGk Reciting today my featured poem in Kafiyaa anthology Kaafiyana that was released in the Kaafiya Poetry Festival in Delhi and features my poem Mosoleum. Love to Yaseen Anwer, Sadia Khan and Neha R. Krishna for their constant work with poetry. Hope you all have been keeping well and loving life. This  series I have started to share a few stories behind the poems and talk to you all because given I am a really bubbly person, I need the human interactions more than the virtual one. Hope you enjoy this reading. You can find the full reading on my youtube link. Subscribe and follow it to listen to more of my poetry. You can get Kaafiyana anthology on Amazon and the Kaafiya Poetry page Always be happy and be kind to each other. Love Sufi Sufia Khatoon is an Editor, Translator, Author, Poet, Artist, Illustrator, Designer, Social Activist and Philanthropist,  Curator, PR and Event Manager. Her Poems and sho
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Figuring Life and Hope

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Figuring Life and Hope I promise that you'll find hope when all is lost, I promise that you'll find your soul when your heart is sick, I promise that you'll find yourself when your path is blurred, I promise you'll heal when things are dark, I promise you'll be safe in my words and my dreams ©Sufi...18/7/18 I often find myself at the crossroads looking at my life. If I have really lived it, challenged it and savoured it. The realizations that I have had everyday isn't the most pleasant ones, I see a limbo, a pattern, a corner that I feel I have got stuck into. What if there is nothing to look forward to in life? Even though in the past 30 years, I have experimented, rebelled, fought and over came circumstances, I have gone through phases of anxiety or hopelessness and then on some days I have had all the inspirations in the world to take up new task and work through them. I have worried over money, security and livelihood then again I have left t
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How I survive the Creative Void? The suffocation of the emptiness -Sufia Khatoon

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How I survive the Creative Void? The suffocation of the emptiness -Sufia Khatoon  Today was another day where I managed to wake up early to prepare for my upcoming events and performances this month. For my friends here, life has changed drastically I now work as a professional Artist, I teach Art and Creative writing to students, I am an Art Curator and I am a PR and Event Manager. I am deeply involved in social work mostly philanthropic initiatives and poetry. It has become the center of my life. If I look 5 years back, I was another 'me' in another time looking for myself, exploring my strengths and it took me almost half of my life to actually understand what I like to do? What are my talents and how I should work with them to improve things around me? How I have to be stubborn to continue? Beyond everything I have learned, I have realized the importance of simplicity, honesty and dedication to work. Define happiness? I am content with my choice of working as an
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The Tea Thoughts and Stories

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The Tea Thoughts and Stories... I always wondered and wander through the dimensions of my thoughts, rather I would say forcefull reasonings of the mind, looking for inspirational realizations. It hardly knows how to stop talking and feel the moment. Not everything has to have a reason right. But everything seems right with a cup of my best Kerala grown tea leaf or Nilgiri tea on days like this. Mind has very less time with itself, it worries too much of the world within and without 'common sense' and a hot cup of good tea seems like a relief, a stop at the station where strange noises seem to choke the air out of my lungs. So when days like today comes, I look for the best cup of tea, a real good book to let me go on a meditative journey of taste,stories and nostalgia. I was never a tea person and in the name of coffee all I cared about was the frothy creamy capachino which got colder by the minute I started savouring it. My journey with tea started two years a
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