02 Jan

2008

“Happy New Year” 🙂

yes, the wishes fill the air.

on the other hand, is’nt this just a marker on the sliding timeline? Sometime lines are based on the activities people involve in, for their bread, for what they reap and celebrate the nature for the same.

Celebrate the season. Celebrate every season. Celebrate the beauty it has given to life. (Somehow like the opening song of the movie ‘Rent’. which asks how do we measure it? Why not measure it in Love? measure in seasons of Love? )

Heard that the ‘development’ has over taken the DondoLe falls and this small beautiful waterfall is just gone and this ‘development’ will over take many more. Along with it, donno what else it will take away, those things which probably did not have a chance to come to see the light of world. And with all that mindlessness!

Seasons come, seasons go. Will the seasons have the same name anymore? what if the winter is just 10hours a year?! “The Future of Ice: A Journey Into Cold” by Gretel Ehrlich is wonderful book asking such questions. Truth is that, one can see it happening now. Or is it as Muir wonders “will this destruction by mankind (being part of nature) bring out a finer beauty like other natural things bring?”

Do I say Happy New Year?

22 Dec

just everywhere

there use to be times when I used to hear music from the old philips radio and other systems, ever used to think that the music is just there, like water, like air… it never crossed the mind that there could be some superhumans putting their soul into it.

Things have not changed much since then, even now its just there like all the best things of liff. They are just there and music is just, just everywhere.

05 Dec

conservation! a slightly different way..

Some interesting ideas…
– Revival of traditional recipies
– Knowledge of food from woods.
– the folk art
– and the connection to conservation.

When I go home I know that I have to search really hard for to find a ‘sampige’ tree bearing fruits. This is not the flowering tree most people know of. This tree has been cut mindlessly for the reason that the wood looks just like the sandalwood and can replace the sandalwood in many places. Good for sandalwood. Fact is there are no sandalwood trees left either. eh!

There used to be another tree, whose bark has been used in some incense making in large scale commercially. I have not seen these huge trees since a long time.

At least I can see the ‘sampige’ tree though it may not have any fruits, may not invite the Horn bills and other birds. It may soon be gone too.

Here is something happening.. check it out.Malenadu Mela

16 Nov

forever young…

One of those email forwards brought along with it some food, food for thought. It said something like this “You’re getting old when you enjoy remembering things more than doing them.” A simple line by any perspective.

Recently happen to watch a few “young” people in a few movies. The movies are no dollywood flicks! Just amazing people rich at heart and believing in doing and living and of course great music too. 🙂

buenacalle

06 Nov

Everglades

hmmm…
May be its just the “go climb a rock” spirit, tis been a super quick day trip to the Everglades.
The Everglades, one of the most amazing places deserves definitely more than a days visit in hot sun of early November. To see, to feel, to wonder, to experience and to learn …

Everglades

Some more photos …Everglades

The link to Everglades website

31 Oct

Pawtuckaway

yes.. Pawtuckaway. that’s it. Don’t ask me to say it again… unless you want to hear different versions of pronunciation 🙂
A state park in NH, a bouldering place, a place to see fall colors, a place where you wish you had something to warm your hand before you hold that crimp, a place typical in new england wilderness…

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