Words contain the strength to carry us. They shape our perspective and embellish our interactions with each other and with our surroundings. Dev borem korum, moves me from politeness to goodwill, where I am bringing to mind the other person's benefit and treating their good turn as a gift by sharing my best wishes in return.
Restored, is a poem and also a wish that I share with the entire human and non-human fraternity: May we make it come true, so that peace can truly rest on our brow.
Know as Cold Moon in the higher latitudes, the December full moon has various names across different cultures. What will we in the middle latitudes call the December full moon? So close to the equator we are that our relationship to the sun is more pronounced and discussed, but the moon is an essential part of our rhythm—circadian and ecological.
...The books sit on my coffee table, a reminder, of the relational interplay between resistance, acceptance, patience, and friendship that shape all occurrences, and of a delivery that is in our hands to make.
The best learnings happen when a grownup learns with children. Learning, Imagination with Shaurya, Thoughtfulness with Isabel, Acceptance with Vidur, Gratitude with Maya.
Both regeneration and communication depend on one process, the process of cohesion—where one particle joins another to form a whole. The first is natural cohesion and the second social cohesion. In both continuity is created intentionally, by design.
When ripe the fruit will be harvested and the plant will perish, leaving behind a few spurs or spurring new shoots that will grow and nourish like the mother plant—benevolence, isn’t it? And it’s also an example of carrying forward inheritance, from mother to child and plant to spur or shoot.
As an ode to all early crafters, who have helped establish the human experience of solidarity and contentment, and opened our hearts to receive with humility, and to Goa's very own Makers of Mol'lam , including the two in the first photo, I dedicate these inspired verses.
A process designed for regeneration is designed for wellbeing. They go together, because energy that is applied, produces energy. The form can change but energy remains—it regenerates.
Black and white are not contrasting colours, they are shades on the grayscale, and earth and sky are both part of the electromagnetic spectrum. Why then accept Father God and Mother Nature?
Kyo and Obi 