This week was a quiet productive week for me and this is how I’d like my days and weeks to go. Doing leaps at work, having the mental energy to create personal work and then to have a great book hold my hand is the very definition of paradise for me.

I was able to do four inversions in my yoga class this week. Handstand, head stand, shoulder stand and a variation of the scorpion pose. All of this is heavily assisted by my yoga teacher but after four months, I am finding it freeing to just hang upside down. I need to work constantly on the weight distribution but the I love the tiny improvements.
During this week, I was able to use some spare time to work on a 3D visualisation app on Replit where I drew trail lines on Indian dancer movements. I found that once you start using a vibe coding tool like Replit, the quick visual output becomes addictive and the pace of experiments keep increasing and so I also spent 2-3 days tweaking the output.
This entire week, a small group of college friends shared their outfits of the day and this gave me a cute reason to dress up a little everyday.
Continuing my crafting streak this week, I was also able to spend half a day painting tiles for a very special project. I am getting a lot of help from Rajvi and she is guiding me on colours, helping with glazes and will be undertaking the final step of glazing and firing them.
This week, I was able to make two narrative illustrations and I felt like I was able to communicate the essence of what I was trying to say in a very minimalistic and analogous style. I feel I want to continue this series in a lot of other mediums as well.

6. On Saturday, my cousin-grandmom and aunt came for lunch and I was able to hear them talk about my grandfather who passed away when I was quite little. Hearing about how kind and gentle soul he was made me think of him and we spent an afternoon reminiscing about my grandparents. That evening, I went to watch Dhurandhar with Aditya and Pallavee and found the movie engrossing enough that I didn’t feel four hours of screen time as much as I was fearing.

7. I also started work on Escape Velocity Grants and would write more about it in the next issue.

All things considered, a gentle yet consistent week of work!