THE ARTFUL WAY OF SURVIVING LIFE

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.” - Dalai Lama

“How’s your life in Italy?”, my grandfather asks me while I am helping him trim and clean the roots of his bonsai plants. Looking at his bonsai collections, one can sense the rhythm and blend of time, care, slow but sure […]

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ONCE IN A LIFETIME

Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ” - Nathaniel Hawthorne

   It’s Sunday and I’m alone in my room. Listening to the pitter-patter of the rain while watching an old film, The Bridges of Madison Country.  It is […]

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LIFE IS A HIGHWAY

Don’t be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, in as much as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some.” - John Keats (english romantic poet 1795-1821)
I don’t […]

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