Just borrowed a book about the rainforest from the local library, should be a good read! I hope it gives me some ideas :D

Currently creating & editing a song about the rainforest. If it turns out well im going to put it on YouTube! I hope it reminds people of the current destruction going on outside our perfect developed country lives

View from the mountains

View from the mountains

Photo i took of the forest in Madeira

Photo i took of the forest in Madeira

First the beautiful Jupiter-Venus-Moon conjunction in March this year, and now a super moon , both visible so clearly in the night sky, unlike other beautiful celestial phenomena which are sometimes hard to spot. If you don't stop to look at the stars, you will never know the beauty of night. Everyone is occupied, their eyes always looking down into newer gadgets that seem to make our eyes downcast, literally. I like the times when family get togethers meant everyone rushing to the terrace with mattresses and pillows and someone would cook delicious snacks and there we all sat munching things under the night sky or slept on our backs looking up at the clearest constellations and the vastness of the space. 

It isn't that the stars today are too far away than before. We stopped taking the time out to appreciate the heavens above. I will end with a quote from William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.

"The fault , dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, ..."

I was looking at comic strips created by people in different countries as part of the world comics india workshop in countries around the world. People from different countries represented subjects that were reflective of their societies - daily life, problems they could face etc. In Brazil, the theme was largely about crimes like robbery, rape, drugs while in Europe the themes centered around daily life, music, school, and curiously, hoods (jackets, clothes). Sri Lankan artists' work was overwhelmingly women-centric, about the plight of women, especially about sexual violence. In Lebanon and Palestine, it was all about how peace negotiations would bring about a better lfie for all. African artists drew about hiv and fgm, and in Pakistan, the theme was empowerment of girls. In India and Nepal, it was alcohol abuse, village life, water conservation. None of the workshops set a definite theme, nor were the people who attended artists, they were people who didn't have formal trianing as artists, and some had never shown an interest in drawing until then. Poeple who attended were free to draw whatever they pleased, whatever they wanted. There was no training on how to draw either. They were only told to draw their story on a singleside of a page in four blocks, each block representing a story. I attended one such workshop some years ago and it was one the best times I had there. 

What I realised is that around the world, people give importance to things that are vastly different from what you think is important. And some cultures have an easy and safe life, and some don't.

I was looking at comic strips created by people in different countries as part of the world comics india workshop in countries around the world. People from different countries represented subjects that were reflective of their societies - daily life, problems they could face etc. In Brazil, the theme was largely about crimes like robbery, rape, drugs while in Europe the themes centered around daily life, music, school, and curiously, hoods (jackets, clothes). Sri Lankan artists' work was overwhelmingly women-centric, about the plight of women, especially about sexual violence. In Lebanon and Palestine, it was all about how peace negotiations would bring about a better lfie for all. African artists drew about hiv and fgm, and in Pakistan, the theme was empowerment of girls. In India and Nepal, it was alcohol abuse, village life, water conservation. None of the workshops set a definite theme, nor were the people who attended artists, they were people who didn't have formal trianing as artists, and some had never shown an interest in drawing until then. Poeple who attended were free to draw whatever they pleased, whatever they wanted. There was no training on how to draw either. They were only told to draw their story on a singleside of a page in four blocks, each block representing a story. I attended one such workshop some years ago and it was one the best times I had there. 

What I realised is that around the world, people give importance to things that are vastly different from what you think is important. And some cultures have an easy and safe life, and some don't.

Hmmmmmm! Only dead people do not think:)

Is peace possible? hmmm I was looking into these words and trying to figure out the fair answer. If i say that seeing peace in terms of extreme ends then it would not be wise to answer it in a good way. Extreme ends i mean either seeing it into possible and impossible, achievable and non achievable or even right or wrong. I would see it in a moderate and rational way, taking a position of in between, like; there are ways that can bring a certain level of peace on certain spaces or areas.

PEACE:)

THINKING..................................

It’s been a long time that I have been thinking and thinking and this process of thinking goes on until I miss myself somewhere into the deep thought of selfless. The world is remarkably a beautiful space, a stunning space to live, share happiness and spread peace but why this beauty is just felt on the surface level and once we try to peep into this by going beyond the surface of this world, we see, feel and observe how disgracing, complex and unwanted the world has been made. Why we, created through love but do not live with love and let others love peacefully? This making of the world from beautiful to disgrace has been reflected into the daily loss of innocent people,  children sleeping with no food in their bellies, violence agaisnt women and manmade differences. I am thinking and thinking. If thinking ceased to be stopped I would not be any more coz only corpse does not think!