Arranged for Examination

A novice peek into a practiced craft White lights overhead. The air conditioner hums with what seems like a purpose I’m yet to be made privy to. Control is what I can settle on, the kind of steady, regulated chill designed to remove variables, to keep the room neutrally obedient. They’ve prepared an operation theatre […]
The Locomotion of the Leaves

Allow me the occasional alliteration that makes you wince, but this headline seemed to have written itself. By now, we’ve laid bare the fact that tea goes beyond its status as a caffeinated beverage occupying pride of place in households, offices, restaurants, and commercial spaces alike, transcending geography and climate. Let’s zoom in, however, to […]
What The Leaves Are Becoming

The beginning of a new year carries a different texture from its end, where hard conclusions are replaced with an intention that looks forward to the future. Work resumes itself before dust settles on resolutions promised and fought for, conversations take on a more reflective veil, and there’s a collective sense of taking stock through human measures of what endured and what didn’t.