riddhi puranik
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i love telling people i’m proud of them. i love the ways their eyes light up. i love the little hair tuck my friend does when anyone...
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riddhi puranik
- May 13, 2021
- 2 min
outgrowing
it's inevitable that you become too big for some things. but there are some things i refuse to give up, no matter how minuscule. i refuse...
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riddhi puranik
- Oct 20, 2020
- 2 min
a letter i (wish i) wrote to myself five years ago
Even if you have changed from how you once were, even if you lose a part of you that you thought you could never live without, even if...
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riddhi puranik
- May 5, 2020
- 2 min
happiness
"It's no fun to be yellow. Maybe I'm not all yellow. I don't know. I never seem to have anything that if I lost it I'd care too much....
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riddhi puranik
- Apr 5, 2020
- 1 min
splayed
Soon it turned to dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with...
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riddhi puranik
- Apr 5, 2020
- 1 min
log house
Wood panels and stony bricks, a structure housing warmth and life. Cavernous depths of valleys and hills stretch out in the expanse of...
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riddhi puranik
- Mar 16, 2020
- 1 min
home
Feeling protected in the arms of your mother. Her familiar scent envelopes you. And the sense of safety that accompanies her embrace can...
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riddhi puranik
- Mar 16, 2020
- 1 min
to be.
The look in the eyes of people in love. The shared glance at things that perk their attention. The dismay at things that bring...
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riddhi puranik
- Mar 16, 2020
- 1 min
tiny human
Babies that smile when they look at strangers. Their gummy and hopeful smiles play with my heartstrings as I melt to a puddle. Their...
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riddhi puranik
- Mar 16, 2020
- 1 min
blossom
The bud of a flower blooming in a field that looks unsustainable to support a living being. The faith in that little beginning of beauty...
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riddhi puranik
- Mar 16, 2020
- 1 min
unforseen
Finding the most unexpected things in the places you would least expect them to be. A lost poem in the pocket of the jacket you thought...
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riddhi puranik
- Mar 16, 2020
- 1 min
hope
Little kids at playgrounds trying their hardest to climb a slide the wrong way. Their little feet slipping and dragging them to the end...
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riddhi puranik
- Mar 16, 2020
- 1 min
imprint
Feeling the familiar curve of the pen as it makes its way across the dull paper in even strokes. The chaotic striking, the scribbling and...
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riddhi puranik
- Mar 16, 2020
- 1 min
odds
The ragged children at the corners of desolate streets at night. The smile on their faces, blissfully unaware of their reality as their...
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riddhi puranik
- Mar 16, 2020
- 1 min
age
Watching the elderly citizens of our community with amusement as they continue to go about their lives with varying degrees of...
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riddhi puranik
- Mar 16, 2020
- 1 min
reversal
Watching strangers look at mirrors in passing and seeing them not frown at the subsequent reflection of themselves. The simple existence...
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riddhi puranik
- Mar 16, 2020
- 1 min
luna
“Don’t trust the moon, she’s always changing. The shores bend and break and she begs to be loved” The agony of absence leaves an aching....
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riddhi puranik
- Mar 16, 2020
- 1 min
prism
Rainbows. The colours and the shape and the hope. It is all just science, but that never dulls the excitement. No matter the age, every...
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riddhi puranik
- Mar 16, 2020
- 1 min
sunshine
The first rays of sunshine after torrential rainfall. The grey clouds still hover predominantly over the sky. Little slices of the baby...
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riddhi puranik
- Mar 16, 2020
- 1 min
pages
The first look around a bookstore. With hundreds and thousands of pages waiting to be read, felt and understood. The new book smell that...
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