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poetic technologylike turtles hatching 🐢🧘🏽🌈✨Hi! I am Parul. My ancestors are from South Asia, I was born on Turtle Island in Tkaronto, and I currently live on the island of Bali in Indonesia. I use poetry, prose, poetic frames to unravel entanglements of our thoughts, feelings and experiences. Call it an evolving decolonization practice that is liberating the many intelligences our existence contains.☝🏽 I read you this newsletter, or you can read it yourself! 👇🏽a thought on resistance resistance of breaking out of a patternof doing something new of holding yourself tenderly it is not unsafe, it is just unfamiliar...
2022-08-2809 min
poetic technologyletter 017: so... are you the sun?!?! 💁🏽♀️☀️👀🤯Hi! I am Parul. My ancestors are from South Asia, I was born on Turtle Island in Tkaronto, and I currently live on the island of Bali in Indonesia. I use poetry, prose, poetic frames to unravel entanglements of our thoughts, feelings and experiences. Call it an evolving decolonization practice that is liberating the many intelligences our existence contains.☝🏽 I read you this newsletter, or you can read it yourself! 👇🏽In my last letter I wrote about gentle, deep healing. How ancient practices of Ayurveda offer detoxing tools that soothe and reset all your bodies — spiritual, mental, physical, emo...
2022-08-2108 min
poetic technologyletter 016: a soulful unwrapping 🎁❤️🔥Hi! I am Parul. My ancestors are from South Asia, I was born on Turtle Island in Tkaronto, and I currently live on the island of Bali in Indonesia. I use poetry, prose, poetic frames to unravel entanglements of our thoughts, feelings and experiences. Call it an evolving decolonization practice that is liberating the many intelligences our existence contains.☝🏽 I read you this newsletter, or you can read it yourself! 👇🏽A conversation I find myself having often is around Ayurveda, specifically of cleansing and detoxing. Perhaps it is because in Indonesia they put sugar in literally everything. They also f...
2022-08-1409 min
poetic technologyletter 015: we are fermenting till we are yogurt 😦💆🏾♀️Hi! I am Parul. My ancestors are from South Asia, I was born on Turtle Island in Tkaronto, and I currently live on the island of Bali in Indonesia. I use poetry, prose, poetic frames to unravel entanglements of our thoughts, feelings and experiences. Call it an evolving decolonization practice that is liberating the many intelligences our existence contains.☝🏽 I read you this newsletter, or you can read it yourself! 👇🏽culture of meis the culture of youi ferment the old and the new creating an abundant form of the futuremelded together giving space for the third mefor you— homema...
2022-08-0712 min
poetic technologyletter: 014 Cinnamon bun life is the best kind of life 👀 🤤Hi! I am Parul. My ancestors are from South Asia, I was born on Turtle Island in Tkaronto, and I currently live on the island of Bali in Indonesia. I use poetry, prose, poetic frames to unravel entanglements of our thoughts, feelings and experiences. Call it an evolving decolonization practice that is liberating the many intelligences our existence contains.☝🏽 I read you this newsletter, or you can read it yourself! 👇🏽I love cinnamon buns. Markville mall, a mall close to where I grew up smelt like cinnamon buns. Sometimes after school we would get a lucky surpr...
2022-07-3108 min
poetic technologyletter 013: Thanks Auntie! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏Hi! I am Parul. My ancestors are from South Asia, I was born on Turtle Island in Tkaronto, and I currently live on the island of Bali in Indonesia. I use poetry, prose, poetic frames to unravel entanglements of our thoughts, feelings and experiences. Call it an evolving decolonization practice that is liberating the many intelligences our existence contains.☝🏽 I read you this newsletter, or you can read it yourself! 👇🏽what doesn’t seem obvious upfrontis a journey full of risks ripples through your life in unknown patterns intersecting with you at the most obscure and most obvi...
2022-07-2411 min
poetic technologyLetter 012: Resilient bodies- bodies that break and mend 🌎🥺🪡🙏🏽Hi! I am Parul. My ancestors are from South Asia, I was born on Turtle Island in Tkaronto, and I currently live on the island of Bali in Indonesia. I use poetry, prose, poetic frames to unravel entanglements of our thoughts, feelings and experiences. Call it an evolving decolonization practice that is liberating the many intelligences our existence contains.☝🏽 I read you this newsletter, or you can read it yourself! 👇🏽I am obsessed with food. At least 50% of what I do on the internet is look at recipes and food things. I dream about the meals I wan...
2022-07-1711 min
poetic technologypoetic sunday: honey maker in the sky ⭐🐝Hi! I am Parul. My ancestors are from South Asia, I was born on Turtle Island in Tkaronto, and I currently live on the island of Bali in Indonesia. I use poetry, prose, poetic frames to unravel entanglements of our thoughts, feelings and experiences. Call it an evolving decolonization practice that is liberating the many intelligences our existence contains.☝🏽 I read you this newsletter, or you can read it yourself! 👇🏽stars are raining on the roofclouding the sky and we are still herewondering why we are the only living beingsin the galaxythe audacity to believe that to be tru...
2022-07-1001 min
poetic technologyletter 011: home lives in your nervous system 🙆🏽♀️💫🥲Hi! I am Parul. My ancestors are from South Asia, I was born on Turtle Island in Tkaronto, and I currently live on the island of Bali in Indonesia. I use poetry, prose, poetic frames to unravel entanglements of our thoughts, feelings and experiences. Call it an evolving decolonization practice that is liberating the many intelligences our existence contains.☝🏽 I read you this newsletter, or you can read it yourself! 👇🏽pre-letter guide: This letter is a collection of poems, prose, and quotes. Each collection brings forward an energy, an intention. Non-linear by design, allowing space for all you...
2022-07-0309 min
poetic technologyletter 010: what is home? standing on cross roads 🏠💙🧳🌎🦦Hi! I am Parul. My ancestors are from South Asia, I was born on Turtle Island in Tkaronto, and I currently live in Indonesia. I use poetry, prose, poetic frames to unravel entanglements of our thoughts, feelings and experiences. Call it an evolving decolonization practice that is liberating the many intelligences our existence contains.☝🏽 I read you this newsletter, or you can read it yourself! 👇🏽So I signed a 1 year lease in Bali…It has been a long while since I actively chose to commit to a place and space for a duration longer than a...
2022-06-1910 min
poetic technologyletter 009: the strength of a tree arises from it's meandering roots 🌳💪🌎Hi! I am Parul. My ancestors are from South Asia, I was born on Turtle Island in Tkaronto, and I currently live in Indonesia. I use poetry, prose, poetic frames to unravel entanglements of our thoughts, feelings and experiences. Call it an evolving decolonization practice that is liberating the many intelligences our existence contains.☝🏽 I read you this newsletter, or you can read it yourself! 👇🏽pre-letter guide: This letter is a collection of poems, prose, and quotes. Each collection brings forward an energy, an intention. Non-linear by design, allowing space for all your intellects (emotional, intellectua...
2022-06-1207 min
poetic technologyletter 008: dream plants, plant the damn seed 🙂🌱🌈🍄Hi! I am Parul. My ancestors are from South Asia and I was born on Turtle Island. I am currently living in Bali, Indonesia. I use poetry, prose, poetic frames to unravel entanglements of our thoughts, feelings and experiences. Call it an evolving decolonization practice that is liberating the many intelligences our existence contains.☝🏽 I read you this newsletter, or you can read it yourself! 👇🏽I dyed my hair silver. My new do has racer stripes, and is the edgiest, funkiest hair cut my imagination could wander to. I think it looks dope AF. 🔥 I never thou...
2022-06-0508 min
poetic technologyletter 007: tea is just a metaphor for life 🙏🏾🔥🌱😄Hi! I am Parul. My ancestors are from South Asia and I was born on Turtle Island. I am currently living in Bali, Indonesia. I use poetry, prose, poetic frames to unravel entanglements of our thoughts, feelings and experiences. Call it an evolving decolonization practice that is liberating the many intelligences our existence contains.☝🏽 I read you this newsletter, or you can read it yourself! 👇🏽The process of turning tea leaves into dried tea is time full and laborious. Picking, shaking, steaming, rolling, withering, drying, roasting, fermenting are some of the techniques used in traditional tea process...
2022-05-2904 min
poetic technologyletter 006: tea life 😃🌿🍵Hi! I am Parul. My ancestors are from South Asia and I was born on Turtle Island. I am currently living in Bali, Indonesia. I use poetry, prose, poetic frames to unravel entanglements of our thoughts, feelings and experiences. Call it an evolving decolonization practice that is liberating the many intelligences our existence contains.☝🏽 I read you this newsletter, or you can read it yourself! 👇🏽i am collectingin process ofdrinking the elixir of ancient timesteaI recently completed Tea School. Yes, tea school, where I drank tea for hours discussing its history, ways of preparat...
2022-05-2305 min
poetic technologymeditative mondays: i open at the close 🙈🧐💚Hi! I am Parul. My ancestors are from South Asia and I was born on Turtle Island. I use poetry, prose, poetic frames to unravel entanglements of our thoughts, feelings and experiences. Call it an evolving decolonization practice that is liberating the many intelligences our existence contains.☝🏽 I read you this poetic meditation, or you can read it yourself! 👇🏽i open at the closea few words that embody deep imaginings, as riddles do.i open at the closeimagining the acceptance of the inevitable, death. i open at the...
2021-11-2203 min
poetic technologyletter 005: whole seeds 🌱🌈Hi! I am Parul. My ancestors are from South Asia and I was born on Turtle Island. I use poetry, prose, poetic frames to unravel entanglements of our thoughts, feelings and experiences. Call it an evolving decolonization practice that is liberating the many intelligences our existence contains. ☝🏽 I read you this letter, or you can read it yourself! 👇🏽You use whole seeds to get the most out of the spice, out of life.To get the healing and nutritious elements that spice does to food. We think of spice as a flavour profile. As adding t...
2021-11-1710 min
The Sikh Forgiveness PodcastParul Bansal: My Poetic Self - Alopecia, Art and ActivismMENTAL HEALTH KI HUNDI HAI: Sikh Forgiveness have launched Mental Health Ki Hundi Hai, a transformative translation guide that looks to explore and explain common mental health issues in a way that Sikh and Punjabi speaking communities can understand. If you’d like to find out more, please visit Sikhforgiveness.com and if you’re in the UK you can purchase from the website.If you’re looking to purchase internationally, you can find the eBook on Amazon, and you can order paperback copies from Amazon in Canada and the US at this time. We...
2021-08-021h 03
poetic technologyletter 004: life is a giant cuddle puddle...? 🙄Everything is political…even your existence. Taking no action, or remaining neutral is political. Art is political. Art is also a container to capture the politics of our time.We are so tangled. We are so enmeshed in one another. That it feels wild to understand when my thoughts end and yours start.How do we untangle? How do we untangle me from you? How do we untangle capitalism and colonialism? Isn’t one a means to another? Where your health is now my health? Where conquering and colonizing was a form to deri...
2021-05-0813 min
poetic technologyletter 003: this is a remix of emo-goods 😀😭🙃😣😍Welcome emotional beings,To be honest, it’s getting very emotional here. Been rolling deep in the COVID feels — the isolation, the SADs : it went so deep, to the edges of the heart. Turmoiled in and out of emotional chaos. It feels almost impossible to feel warmth, aka care and love. It feels difficult to share at these times. Like feeling frozen. 😔Alas : Time unthaws. Seasons are cycles. Sometimes, it’s about surviving, not thriving — as my sister lovingly shared with me. The winter season demonstrates that vividly; when observing nature mammals are hibernating...
2021-03-2412 min
poetic technologyletter 002: we are encoded with patterns, so are we robots? 🤖🙀Are we robots?!?!?!?!?! You know acting and saying the same things in the same way. Not really knowing how to break out of a loop because we don’t even know we are in one.“Hey, how are you?”“Fine.“But really though are you fine? Or are you FINE! We all know fine is code for 🤦🏽♀️ :* I don’t want to tell you anything about me* My insides are burning down and I am about to explode into tears.* I am dead inside, what are feelings?There are so many ex...
2020-12-1114 min
poetic technologyletter 001: oh no not another poetry account 🙃Have you noticed the recent flood of poetry? There are 51.5 million #poetry on instagram! Everyone seems to be a poet. It’s cute and all, till you have to scroll through more or less not great poetry written in the classic typewriter typography with monotone backgrounds hashtagging good vibes only... okay I am going to stop myself before I go on a rant.This is important. Everyone IS a poet.why is “instagram-able” poetry important?Because poetry is a way of seeing the world.It is clear we are...
2020-11-2510 min