Will you?

what would two souls do to remove the distance between them? – a poem

friendships

Close friends are truly life’s treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.

Vincent Van Gogh

Chitu – Indian Ocean

A song that stayed with me during one of my album revisits was the folk and kanjira heavy Chitu, by Indian Ocean.

sacrifice

the cloud’s sacrifice – a poem

But why ?

But, why?

With millions of blogs for billions of humans on this planet, why one more?

oppression

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

Simone Weil, Lectures on Philosophy