Greetings. Since there is 'overwhelming' response to my request for comments, questions etc from my faithful readers, I thought I'll throw in monthly inspirations into the mix. Perhaps, one of them may inspire you to take this world by storm and leave a positive legacy.
I will still be posting occasional news updates on Tibet, but I do not think it necessary to continue posting every single relevant news item. I believe in your intelligence and resourcefulness to keep updated. But, I will be posting other information and opinions on Tibet soon. If you have any ideas, I'm happy to hear it.
Below is a poem by one of my favourite poets, Mary Oliver.
The Summer Day
Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean--
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down--
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don't know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
With your one wild and precious life?
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