Thursday, January 25, 2007

less sun, i dont mind

summer is spring this year,

perfect 25C to stroll in

spf 18 sunscreen

cool breeze

less flies

muffin talk

few soft showers

and all-berry-bang smoothie

Posted by nidya at Thursday, January 25, 2007

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Tuesday, January 09, 2007

the bows and the arrow


Kahlil Gibran

On Children


Your children are not your children.

They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

They come through you but not from you,

And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.


You may give them your love but not your thoughts,

For they have their own thoughts.

You may house their bodies but not their souls,

For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,

which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.

For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.


You are the bows from which your children

as living arrows are sent forth.

The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,

and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.

Let our bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;

For even as He loves the arrow that flies,

so He loves also the bow that is stable.

Posted by nidya at Tuesday, January 09, 2007

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Monday, January 01, 2007

garden of simple

"Those of you who are scattered,

simplify your worrying lives. There is one

righteousness: Water the fruit trees,

and don't water the thorns." Rumi


I paused and smiled reading this. I smiled knowing that I have been

watering so many fears and worries and what-ifs

in my garden of flowers and fruit trees.



Happy new year everybody.

Posted by nidya at Monday, January 01, 2007

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