Fill gaps

When your baby has gaps, 

You don't cover her gaps, 

You fill them

- loss 

Nothing to do with you

Whether things will happen to you or not happen to you has nothing to do with you. 

—

Whether you are chosen or not chosen has nothing to do with you

—- 

Act

You cannot be sitting and not acting on your creative impulse 

Buildings

Buildings from above looked like graveyards. 

Boxes for the living, boxes for the dead 

Float

When you reach a state of boundless intelligence, or where everything is in a state of boundless intelligence, then you are floating in the universe.

True love

I'll tell you about the best story of my life

How I met my beloved wife. 

Once I met her on the bus

My joy was such a rush. 

When she offered me a seat twice as fast,

My heart would skip a beat. 

Just being with her for a little while 

Was enough to make me smile. 

Her smile brings me to blissful tears 

And her voice is music to my ears 

As we went on dating, 

My heart continued beating 

Most women saw me 

And were filled with hate. 

She proposed to me, and 

On the spot - I said yes! 

And made preparations 

For the date in haste. 

I hope you readers feel our happiness 

As I did, the moment our worlds collided.

- Austin Busumbru 

True love

I'll tell you about the best story of my life

How I met my beloved wife. 

Once I met her on the bus

My joy was such a rush. 

When she offered me a seat twice as fast,

My heart would skip a beat. 

Just being with her for a little while 

Was enough to make me smile. 

Her smile brings me to blissful tears 

And her voice is music to my ears 

As we went on dating, 

My heart continued beating 

Most women saw me 

and were filled with hate. 

She proposed to me, and, 

on the spot, I said yes 

And made preparations 

for the date. 

I hope you readers feel our happiness 

As I did the moment our worlds collided.

- Austin Busumbru 

Kathleen Jamie

This all sounds very grand, but the muse comes and she goes. There are times of intense writing, and times of silence. I've been publishing now for above 30 years, and still feel that it's all provisional. I never can tell what will happen next.

Kathleen Jamie on her writing 

Fathers and mothers

People who care for you are fathers 

People who care for you are mothers 

People who care are fathers and mothers 

Art

Art doesn't have to be a book or a big canvas. Art can be just critical thinking, a creative thought, exploring the universe of possibilities, 

art can be thought. 

It is always exciting to conjure great thoughts and ideas and possibilities! 

Just purely that, without the peck of "who are we going to make that happen? 

It has already happened in the mind, it the most beautiful glorious way!! 

Nice

Be nice. 

Be the nicest you can be. 

Be stubbornly nice. 

Be kind 

Be the kindest you can be. 

Be boldly kind. 

Be lovely, 

Breathe lovely 

When you see someone being cruel, 

call them out. 

NOT NICE 

- 

Painting is a very rich and mercurial way of thinking.

Adam Pendleton

Yeats

The world is full of magic things patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper

Reduce noise

All kinds of noise 

Are you serious

If you are serious, you have to play with the leagues 

Restraint

It is easy to add salt and make things tasty. It is difficult to exercise restraint, add less salt and still make things tasty.

Loki muthu 

vulnerability

I don't have complaints, I have vulnerabilities...

- Lisa Opoku

question

Every question is a great question.

every unanswered question is a greater question

conduct yourself

people are watching you all the time

conduct yourself,

and when you are alone, God is watching

Conduct yourself 

private

yamn in private, people are watching 

puppet?

Look at yourself.

Are you a puppet

To secular forces?

Different

Our children, 

They have to be 

Different than us 

Kindest

It is very important to that you do the kindest thing to the other person or creature(earthling)

 

Be the kindest

Stand ferociously for justice 

Be strong to protect yourself

Drive your car 

Energy

Some homes have a dark energy. 

Some homes have a menacing energy

Some homes feel like they are watching us. 

Some homes have a welcoming energy. 

Homes emit energy 

Notes poem

How I long to hear you say my name 

Feel your hands reach my head and tousle my hair. 

Your tiny fingers, I would thrust against my cheeks

Reading temperatures; who's warmer. 

It was always me, you called me a burning sun, 

I was shining on, you crazy diamond, 

We Wedged at the edge of the morning, 

trying to loosen things up and emerge 

Reaching to untuck, untuck the cloistered sheets

So your legs could reign free on mine 

My femur burning on top of yours, angling my feet, 

So I could tease your toes, scratch them like a kittens 

Freight trucks moaning in the far distance

And to hear you say "I had a good sleep, baby" 

Panic

Nothing works out in a panic, 

- Hari Moorthy 

Great art

Stirs up a feeling 

"Stimmung"

4 houses

Bro - driving recklessly notes

"I'm going to risk your life for my fun

Going to flaunt my privilege in your face" 

Crime

Commit acts of kindness. 

Don't commit crime. 

—-

When people commit crime

And committing crime becomes the norm,

The world deteriorates

—- 

Committing crime= taking advantage of another

The First

Be the first one to clap. 

Be a Prince. 

Always. 

Stand up and clap

When a movie or a performance moves you, 

When it reaches the end; stand up and clap

No matter the venue

—

It's a wonderful thing to do 

You are saying kudos to the creator 

It's a cultured thing to do 

Divine

This is a divine relationship

L on l+L

Poem eclipse

On the day of the eclipse

for a few mere seconds,

It was the moon of the sun

and the night of the day.

Poem notes

Making a landscape 

Seeing it for what it is and what it can be… 

Art

Seeing it for what it is and what it can be 

——

Life, 

What it can be 

No much different than what it is. 

—- 

Life - a field guide 

What is, 

Is not much different 

than what can be.. 

—- 

Poem notes

Relationships: A field guide 

To be married is a blessing 

To be married is a curse 

—

To be divorced is a blessing 

To be divorced is a curse 

—

To be single is a blessing 

To be single is a curse 

My life

My life story

" everything is so fresh"

Like it happened yesterday 

My high fever before going to the us.

My romance with Sudha

Walking to mes 

Growing zinnias 

Scolded for helping the milkman's daughter 

Everything is so tender and fresh 

Yai-yai (yellaneeeer- screamer 

Mom feeding me curd rice and spinach when I was unwell

Vivek and Nitin visiting my house in mysore

Walks around kukkrelli lake

If I die

If I die one day,

dear reader,

you have been a part 

in making my life worthwhile for me.

There are beautiful worlds to discover and uncover

God bless you dear reader.

Dear earthling

Dear child of god

God bless you 

Chasing me

Chasing after myself

Chasing me

Chasing after this creature 

Chasing after this thing that is alive and moving 

Who is me? 

Who is my self? 

Who is moving?

Who moves? 

What moves me? 

Encounters

Ultimately it is you and what you found in this world next line next line. Next line ultimately it is you and what you encounter in this world.

Improve Focus - Harvard Review

Try these four strategies to help you tune out distractions and improve your ability to focus in daily life:

1. When someone is talking to you, look at the person and listen closely. If you missed something that was said, ask the person to repeat it or to speak more slowly.
2. Paraphrase what was said to make sure you understand it and reinforce the information. For example, if someone says, "We can see the movie either at Loews Theater at 7:30 or at the Paramount at 7:50," you might respond, "Which would you prefer, 7:30 at Loews or 7:50 at the Paramount?"
3. If you find that you tend to become distracted during conversations, try getting together with people in quiet environments. For example, you could suggest meeting at someone's home instead of at a noisy restaurant. When you do meet people at a restaurant, sit at a table near a wall. If your companions sit against the wall and you sit facing them, you'll be able to focus on them without having your attention wander to other diners.
4. You can improve your ability to focus on a task and screen out distractions if you do one thing at a time. Try to avoid interruptions. For example, if someone asks you something while you're in the middle of reading or working, ask if the person can wait until you're finished. Don't answer the phone until you've finished what you're doing — let voice mail take the call.

Kind

When you are kind, you attract kind people, and kind people do kind things to you. Kind beget kind