Everyone suffers

I turn to Dr. Seuss for help in explaining this one.
For those of you who have read this book, you know what I mean,
For the world, I wish that everyone can read this book!!!
Its at max a ten minute read, that would have you thinking for a very long time.
My very good friend had introduced me to this book one day in barnes and noble, at the time I wondered why would he ever want me to read a kiddies book, I never regretted reading it!
For those of you who can and haven't read this book as yet then please do
About BUTTER BATTLE

so after they have all fought and destroyed everything in sight, then what can man claim victory to?
The survivors will have to suffer the consequences of global warming and everything else.
Everyone loses, yet they fight.
I wonder what is gained by taking a life, I always wondered about war, Is there really victory in murdering someone who is not on your side of the line, or as Dr. Seuss so cleverly puts it butters their bread on the opposite side.
ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS OF WAR

What can we tell a child today?

Little one, I want to tell you that life is safe,
that mankind is good
what do you tell a child in this world today?
Do you tell them , listen little one pray to obtain heaven while the very earth perishes?
Or do we stand up for what is right and to try to save what is left? try to save the sanity of mankind and the shreds of humanity that are left

Human life is so fragile but the will to live is so strong
there were about 86 reported deaths so far due to the Tsunami in Indonesisa today,
many more are dying in Israel and Lebanon,a few days ago, many died in Mumbai,
I think about the realtives of the families of these souls and I wonder about the anguish and betrayal that they must feel, to lose a loved one so tragically.
think about 6 billion hearts beating together , it is probabaly a lot harder to stop that 6 billion hearts fighting each other , already stressed.

there is the legend of that man who brought fire to earth, now there will be the legend of the people who brought hell to earth.
the heart does betray the soul when it loves itself too much,
the voice of the world is muted and only selfish lies of the heart are heard.

what will happen when the UN ignores a call for a ceasefire.

From Yahoo news 15/07/06

... Argentina's U.N. Ambassador Cesar Mayoral said the United States objected to any statement and Britain opposed calling for a cease-fire.
The U.S. and Britain want to wait for the outcome of this weekend's Group of Eight meeting in Russia, an Arab League foreign ministers meeting, and a mission sent to the Middle East by Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Mayoral and other diplomats said...
France's U.N. Ambassador Jean-Marc de La Sabliere, the current council president, confirmed "there was no agreement on a text tonight, but we will meet on Monday."
"Many delegations would have liked to have a very prompt reaction," he said. "Others think the spotlight should be elsewhere, not here in the council. "

But Lebanon's Mahmoud protested, saying while innocent civilians are killed, "here we are impotent."
full story

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Mahmoud is right, Isn't the job of the UN to try to at least stop the war, why was the call for a ceasefire ignored!!!
When civilians are getting killed everyday then why are they even waiting till Monday to decide on their next move, is this NOT WRONG!

What does war solve?

Answer NOTHING! Absolutely NOTHING! It is STUPID!
I turned on the TV and saw the bombings in Mumbai, saw the conflict between Israel and Lebanon heating up again,
There is only one thought in my mind as I think about this
THIS IS WRONG, IT IS WRONG, WHY CAN'T THEY STOP!
TERRORISM IS ABSOLUTELY STUPID! ALL Terrorists are STUPIDHEADS!
I wonder what is happening to the world? I can see this once strong goddess of Earth, being destroyed and tormented. She tried to provide for all of her children but then with their avarice and arrogance they started fighting each other , and destroying her as well. She is the pride of the creator and he is being angered, as her children continue to destroy eachother and her while she still struggles to suckle them.

About the trip

I guess that I simply wanted to talk about the mountains.
The quiet beauty of nature.
The air is so clean and fresh in the mountains and the rivers are crystal clear and beautiful. One wonders about the term crystal clear, but the water flowing over those grey rocks with the sun glistening on the surface, One can simply imagine Nature wearing her jewelry with pride.
I loved sleeping at the camp, listening to the sound of the water flowing by the creek all night, even though the ground was hard, the water lulled me to sleep.
The feeling of waking up in the cold fresh mountain air so far from home is exhilariting!
I guess that they called the waterfall laurel falls because of the beautiful laurel trees with white flowers growing along the path.
I wish that everyone can experience the calmness of the mountains, to think of these beautiful mountains being moulded and shaped by a magestic hand, with the rivers carefully etched into its sides,
Maybe if everyone can experience the mountains then people would become less mean and stop hurting the world.
The waterfall was so inviting, one simply wanted stand in that cold crisp mountain water, I smiled as I was climbing it and saw the strong tree roots sticking out like a helping hand telling me to hold on.

WHERE WAS I THIS WEEKEND ;)

camping in smokey mountain TN.
Laurel falls


hiking stone mt GA.


Weekend was a blast...will blog on it later

Drawing of the Devi

I cannot explain how fulfilling one feels while drawing a picture of Durga, it seems as if the pencil moves by itself.

Sleepless Nights

Where the mind resists, why then does the heart betray?
When there is thought and logic, why is it ignored, for emotion?
When experience should enlighten a decision why then is the path so dark now.
When the soul has decided to stand alone, then why keep on searching?
In the process of untying the chains of the ego, then why was this soul trapped and betrayed by the heart?
In a lost moment of bliss, away from this ego, why then does the soul succumb to the treacherous lies of the heart?
Listening to the silence, there is the premonition of a shell that will be broken.
Now waiting, I wonder is the creature inside stronger or already dead?
Isn't it so that sometimes the most difficult battles are the ones that we fight within, trying to decide what is strength and what is weakness.


When the world is crying, do we like many others maintain the middle line of apathy, or listen to it and feel with it?

Shiva and Parvati

The picture is not very clear, I believe that it is due to my digicam running on its very last batteries:D.
This one took 2 hours of non stop sketching and I actually had to start off with stick figures to get the proporions and postures correct.
Either way, I am very happy with this. I had started it about a week ago and I thought that it was too difficult and erased it.
Today during the match with brazil my mind drifted away from football (I had this premonition that history will repeat itself and that Brasil would again lose to France:(, since I did not want to witness this, I left the TV on and came online where I found this picture and started sketching again.