Wednesday, June 12, 2024

Need a sapling?

Do you love 🌲 trees?
Need a sapling?
The problem in densely populated city is hardly any space for growing big, shade giving trees. Forget creating canopies.

Then should that dream be blown out?

What best could we do when faced with constraints?
 
The God opens up newer ways.

You can grow the saplings in pots.
Growing saplings just needs your love, not plenty of water. Even just a mug of water a day would suffice.

When they grow to about two, three feet of height, you may request schools, temples with amble spaces, with care takers to accept your tree offerings. Number of Ngos dedicate themselves to tree planting, environment protection.  You can call them up also.  They will gladly accept and grow your trees.



"Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.” 

— Kahlil Gabran

Monday, May 13, 2024

Walk Your way to robust health

Be in the open air as much as possible, and take good long walks and work hard. The muscles of the leg should be as hard as iron.

- Swami Vivekanand 

From “The East and the West,” originally written in Bengali. Complete Works, 5. 488.

Friday, May 10, 2024

Psychological First Aid

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"We can’t heal the world today but we can begin with a voice of compassion, a heart of love, an act of kindness.”

– Mary Davis


We all talk of absence of moral education period, in this rat race world. What matters is cramming and vomiting out - garbage in garbage out, GIGO - to only score. When New Education Policy aims to shift from rote learning, all nay Sayers are up in arms. My God.

Apart from Moral education, yet another quintessential learning we fail in pedagogy is not giving even a tiny heed on "First Aid Training".  True, everywhere, be it in school campuses, buses we sport a First Aid ⛑️ Kit Box. It simply serves as another fixture in the premises.  What about training?  Is it in any syllabi?

Well,
We may not be able to heal every one so distraught. Just a holding of the one in pain and saying, "pray 🙏 for you. And everything will be alright" can serve as a ray of hope.  Hope, faith is the First step on the journey of healing.

Om Shanti.


P.s.
The title is a clinical term.
Info courtesy:
Ms Lakshmi Sankaran,
Psychiatrist,
Dy Director -
BALM
And
Chennai Express, edn 11.05.2024



Thursday, May 2, 2024

PERFECTION, A MIRAGE...

 "If You Wait For Perfect Conditions To Seize An Opportunity, You'll Be Waiting Till The Day You Die."

Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Always

Be kind whenever possible,
It is 
ALWAYS POSSIBLE.

- HH Dalai Lama 

Saturday, April 13, 2024

AS IT IS...

 TRUTH IS NOT WHAT YOU

WANT IT TO BE;

IT IS WHAT IT IS,

AND YOU MUST BEND 

TO ITS POWER

OR

LIVE A LIE.


- MIYAMOTO MUSASHI


सत्यमेवजयते

Satyameva Jayate

Mundaka Upanishad

Thursday, April 4, 2024

Be on command

 You may not control all the events

That happen to you,

But you can decide

Not to be reduced by them.

- Maya Angelou