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#retreatposting

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neocolonial malcontent chic

As usual for when the Moon is in Scorpio, or magnificently void of course, (tonight: both!!) I've been craving noodles/noodle soups.

And lacking either the core ingredients needed or the money to get takeout (or even the wish for takeout, really: the stuff I want I've just got to make at home, and that's at once a tiring and exciting thought), I just ran through my (few) memories of food I'd had before moving out that I'd enjoyed, which included this incredible soupy garlic chicken noodles I'd had at the Coffee House near College St., Kolkata, and browsed through a number of recipes on Chinese food blogs.

And then went on and had my dinner of leftover roti and my first, very nice attempt at a favourite potato and green papaya vegetable (first fed to me by my BFF#2) -- that I'd spoiled while reheating by adding too much salt 🥲

Anyway, my beloved neem tree flowered today for the first time ever. And for a second first-time-ever, I saw neem flowers live. Have I mentioned that, growing up, I've always adored neem trees and wanted to live so close to one that I'd be able to touch it from my window, and now, by some miracle, I actually live exactly that close to one of those beauties?! I'm declaring March 17 a personal holiday 📆

#RetreatPosting 🌘 #VoidMoonVibes
#BloomScrolling #Spring2025 #NativePlants

Shallow-depth closeup of a spray of neem (Azadirachta indica) flowers and buds + young leaves against a background of fast-maturing neem leaves and mostly-obscured branch. The ovoid buds have grown in size, and the open flowers are tiny and a soft creamy yellow-white (almost the same shade as Jasminium sambac flowers), reminiscent of daffodils in their shape and petal arrangement. The somewhat blurry golden haze of a March morning in West Bengal, India makes for a subtle vintage-y dreamy mood in the picture.
High closeup of one of the open neem flowers. The tepals are slim, white, and spread exactly like a five-pointed star. The conical corona is open with a ruffled rim, very ornamental. The flower's reproductive parts are just about visible inside the corona.
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neocolonial malcontent chic

I get dispirited when I remember that my professional writing has become mostly an effort to make money these days. It's hard to truly enjoy anything with so much pressure on.

But then I think about why I need that dough: sustenance for myself so I live to see another spring as beautiful as this one, if not more so. Shared resources with and gifts for my friends: the humans I laugh and cry and love with, the other-than-human kin that tell me stories and give us strength.

I don't love having my nose to the grindstone. (Who does?!) But I do love building a world together with and for my loves.

#RetreatPosting 🌘 #VoidMoonVibes
#BloomScrolling #Spring2025 #HomeCooking

An attempt at a closeup of a branch of the neem tree (Azadirachta indica) full of young green leaves, delicate budding leaves a broody coppery red in colour with a yellow-green undertone, and minute stems of white flower buds. In the blurry background of partial views, there's a neighbouring house painted brick red with pale pink boundary wall, a parking lot with a corrugated iron roof, and a brightly flowering curry leaf tree (Bergera koenigii) in my garden.
Closeup of the lushly flowering curry leaf tree (Bergera koenigii) in the starkly golden mid-morning sun, ironically mimicking the Hollywood yellow filter (the photo itself has no filter). The leaves are a very bright mid-saturated warm green, almost chartreuse in colour. The big clusters of buds and star-shaped flowers are white, tinted light yellow-green in the sun. Not pictured: the incredible savoury-sweet floral fragrance drawing dozens of pollinators every hour.
Closeup of a young and newly planted jasmine tree (Jasminium sambac), with long stems, big glossy green leaves, and two sprays of creamy yellow-white buds (they remind me of white chocolate). One bud, the centre in the photo, has opened into a rotund and bright white flower. Again, not pictured: the dizzying sweet fragrance of the open flower.
Dinner tonight: a big steel bowl, with a steel spoon, of jhalmuṛi (spicy puffed rice). There's muṛi (puffed rice), chopped tomato + red onion + cucumber + coriander greens + green cayenne chili pepper + boiled potato, lime juice + pickled lime, bhaja môshla and salt, soaked Bengal gram, and Bombay mix.
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#3GoodThings yesterday* ☀️
• I saw a pair of sparrows foraging for grain around a fair price store at the nearest intersection. I found this a good omen, considering how threatened sparrows are as a species. No pictures, because I was rushing to get home. (Next point explains why.)

• I sowed a handful of seeds (pumpkin, butterfly pea, and black pepper) on a whim, although I was waiting for the Moon to be waxing again. Just an hour later, it got very, very dark with serious thunder, and beautiful steady, gentle rain. মাঘ মাসের বৃষ্টি ফাল্গুন মাসে এলো। It stayed dark, cold, and rainy the entire day.

• Thursdays, I've found, are almost always** great for cooking. I improvised on noodle recipes I saw on The Woks of Life and made pasta that, for the first time, I truly enjoyed. BFF#1 likes his pasta gently fried before being tossed in with the sauces, etc., and now I see why. I'd never had anything like this before, but I'm pretty sure I'll be trying this again.

•• P. Djélì Clark's 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘎𝘰𝘥'𝘴 𝘋𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘴 also made for fine dinnertime reading.

*Ran out of data yesterday, so I'm updating today.
**If the Moon isn't void of course, or besieged.

#RetreatPosting 🌘

On a blue glass top table with a pair of cotton place mats stacked and folded into a loose half together so that the reverse side is up: a large, somewhat shallow steel bowl with a steel spoon, about 25% full of pasta with pumpkin, egg, and eggplant, braised with aromatics and bhaja môshla (in lieu of curry powder) in all-purpose soy sauce. I'm actually not sure if there should've been more soy sauce in this. Not pictured: a quarter of a lime already juiced into this, and a fried egg that was made after taking this photo.
#HomeCooking#MakanApaToday
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