THE ESTHERIAN BLOG

     This is an appreciative post to some of the things that make me stop and leave me spellbound, all the things that evoked intense interest in me and everything I find beautiful. Colours Source: Pinterest      Bright, bursting, overwhelming, gentle, calming, peaceful and ethereal are all the words I will use to describe colours. The colours everywhere is one of the things that get me drawn into my every day, in painting, in nature, in pictures and so on. And the fact that colours appear different in respect to time, like the city view at night lit up by the streetlamps and reflection on moving cars and glass creates such a surreal environment. The most amazing display of colour for me would always be sunrise or sunset. I can't count how many times I wake up so early just to see the sunrise. Travels and Road trips Source: Pinterest     While I don't get to do this often because of schooling, I enjoy travelling by any means possible. Although I favour air travel a lot more bec

  Hello, Here is another instalment of the Black's Art challenge with my friend, Black_Spiritual. The challenge is creating a short story that shows the artiste inspiration for each piece here today. I would to the best of my abilities to tell the story behind each piece with my own twist. Enjoy. The Birth of a Star A black and white painting “What do you see?” He has just completed a painting in white and black and he showed me this painting, across the infinite space and molecules that separate humans. He was close as well as far from me. “ A Sunrise over a hill.” I sat on a chair and positioned myself to look a bit serious, like someone who understood the deeper things of life. “ But the Sun is not white,” “Tell me then, what do you expect me to see? You know how easy it is for me to equate new experiences to old ones and judge them based on those, how easy to look at something from my perspective and relate them to the images formed in my head. You understand that I am bound by

Source: Pinterest Week four of Fun Month at Transformation Church topic for 7N7 was "I got stronger when I let go of ..." The communicators shared something that they had to let go of to become stronger and it inspired me to share what I had to let go of and also what I had to do to become stronger. To be strong is to be capable of withstanding great physical force, to be determined and unyielding, to be bold and it is the ability to stand despite whatever challenges we go through or we face. The truth is this, we all have to become strong else we would be tossed around and fall into every temptation that appears and even more spiral into a state where we lose sense of who we are and feel inferior. So how did I become stronger?  I became stronger when: I let go of my Self-Image.     For the longest time, I saw myself from a wrong perspective. I let culture and people determine how I saw myself. I internalize the comments people say about me and slowly saw myself through the v

Gangan (Talking Drum) Iwọ lo ni ọrọ ma sọ lọ (The words are yours, keep talking) Oluwa lọ fi ọrọ si ọ lẹnu (The Lord put these words in you) I decided to start this post with a bit of Yoruba Highlife just because the default songs of celebration in my head comes in Yoruba and the reason for this particular song is that I woke up on Sunday to meet my mum singing and dancing along to this. I got a bad review about my last post and I was so sad. You can imagine how I felt listening to my mum singing this and how uplifting it was to me. It was telling me to keep on going, keep on writing, not to focus on just one bad, to look at everything I have accomplished and how far I have come. With the rise in fuel price, the constant rise in inflation, schools yet to open, September looks a bit scary to me. We often wait for something big or absolutely amazing to happen so we can celebrate it but tend to overlook our small victories. I say victories because that is what I count them as; waking up t