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Thimphu Whispers
✏️ Day 15 – Thimphu Whispers
(Bhutan)
My pencil was quiet today.
Not rushing, not buzzing—
just breathing with the mountains.
A single line curved into hills,
another rose into the great Buddha Dordenma,
watching me as if it already knew my thoughts.
Prayer flags fluttered into the margins,
their colors like whispers in the wind.
Then my pencil nudged me with a secret:
Thimphu is one of the only capitals in the world
with no traffic lights.
Just policemen, standing in little booths,
guiding cars with hand-dances.
I grinned—what a city,
where even traffic moves like choreography.
When I signed the page,
my pencil sighed happily,
as if it too had bowed to the mountains.
✨ If your pencil could whisper to the wind, what story would it carry?
Dhaka Drifts
✏️ Day 14 – Dhaka Drifts
(Bangladesh)
Today my pencil pulled me onto water.
One stroke… and a river spread across my page.
Another stroke… and wooden boats appeared,
tilting gently as if nodding hello.
The pencil swirled quick and light,
rickshaw wheels spun across the margins,
their bells jingling inside my ears.
It paused, then curved carefully—
the domes of Lalbagh Fort rose,
like sleepy guardians of the city.
A secret slipped out as I drew:
Dhaka is called the “City of Mosques,”
with more than seven hundred,
each one a prayer sketching the sky.
I laughed softly.
Maybe my pencil had become a minaret today,
calling me not to prayer,
but to wonder.
When I signed the page,
the river rippled back at me—
a smile in water and ink.