Microblog Mondays: Women’s sports – watching is biased too…
As we all know, the recent headlines has been that the Women’s cricket team is doing extremely well in the World Cup tournament. Even though the viewership has increased to watch women play cricket or any other game, there is this chauvinistic mentality to not watch women play sports and where they doing it extremely good too.
Any sport is a combination of strength and technicality. Some require a need for greater strength, some need more technical execution. Some sports are a treat to the eyes like synchronized swimming or floor exercise in gymnastics; while visual beauty is appreciated, the hard work behind it for such perfect performance is looked over.
The application of strength or technical precision or a mixture of these two, on the arena or field and to remain calm in a tension packed zone and perform well too – all these require the sports person to be well balanced in body and mind.
So why the bias in watching women’s sports and especially those when they are performing well?
Skywatch Friday – 4
This is the western sky, you see
Which is in glee
After a drizzle spree
Owing to my plea 😀
Linking this with Skywatch Friday!
WW – Clouds on a drawing sheet
When the sky is the drawing sheet
Upon which the patterns are drawn…
Crayons were used for this
To create a different effect…
The crayons so white
On a blue sheet
Creates those white cloud patterns
By spreading the wax
With the thumb…
Isn’t it how this picture was created!?!
Many thanks to the dear person who sends me pictures of the cloud and sky, all the way from Scotland ❤
Missing what matters!
Today is a day of high-strung emotions.
I went to the temple, as always on Saturdays. Just as I was about to start my pradakshinam, I saw a little girl hugging her father so tightly. Her face was glowing with her love. Even though the father found the hug a bit too tight, he was revelling in her love for him.
That moment broke the tear dam, which was holding up for a long time.
I wiped my tears and started the pradakshinam.
Then came running two small girls, in polka-dotted frocks, all smiling and absolutely happy to be there. That was the next moment. The tears couldn’t be controlled.
What’s this with these little girls and their showing of love, that breaks me down!!
When my elder one was little, she used to wait for her Appa to come back from work. She’ll be looking out for him, from the bedroom window. Since her height was an issue, she used to stand on the cot’s head stand and look at the window with wide opened eyes. Among all the bikes that passed our home, she’ll rightly identify her Appa’s with the sound of the engine. And will start shrieking with joy looking at him and waving to him.
Now, there is a role reversal. The father and the mother put together wait to see their little girl run towards them…
I am holding strong. But there are days when that strength fails you in comparison to the love thread in between.
To put in one simple line – an emotionally strung mother is missing her daughters!
Skywatch Friday – 3
Watching the sky, looking for shapes in the clouds started as a mere pastime, which has turned into an obsession now a days.
Have you seen those cricket batsmen looking up to the sky as they enter the ground to bat ? They pray for a good innings score for them or for their team.
Whenever I sit in the car heading out to work, I also look up to the sky, to my front, side, back, actually all possibilities. But my only reason for looking is to catch a glimpse of a beautiful pattern or even a clear blue sky. I love watching it.
Today, has been gloomy so far. The sky is a dull grey. I don’t know if it will rain or not. But here I am trying to post some amazing patterns from my archives, which can make me feel happy and energised in an instant.
A picturesque field, which makes me wonder if its a painting!
When man made structures and God-made coconut trees form a perfect shadow to the beautiful sunset!
Somehow this leafless tree looks so damn good against this backdrop…l love it!
Linking this with Skywatch Friday 🙂
The only constant in my life…
…has been and always will be “Idly maavu in the refrigerator”…ha ha…did you for a minute think that I am going to talk about the man in my life ?? 😉 He is there…always there. But Idly maavu (batter) is for both of us, you see.
With Sundays converted as work days for me, the handy man is the Idly maavu. I can make idlies for breakfast which is quick. And when I get home tired from work, I just have to close my eyes and make dosa and eat and sleep. You see, its a pleasure to not to think about “what to cook” 😀
I just keep making different vegetables for lunch. But this constant Idly maavu is what makes my life easier.
I might get into the mood to make upma, pongal or poori for breakfast, provided the constant is stocked in the fridge always. And when the maavu goes below the mark of “one more day to go”, I get jittery. All I can think that its time is to soak rice and dal for making the idly maavu.
I wonder what’s this funny relationship between me and this maavu or perhaps idly or dosa? These thoughts keep coming to me now and then, edging me to write about it.
Anyway, my constant is FULL now. One more week of utter bliss awaits me. Also with a batch of adai maavu, I feel well stocked…ha ha…the foodie me never stops thinking of food 😉
