While there is still time

Mine, says the cat, putting out his paw of darkness. My lover, my friend, my slave, my toy, says the cat making on your chest his gesture ...

  The middle of June, and I awake to rain - gentle, persistent, enough to soak the   ground and clear   the air.   Isn't this the best k...

  Don’t Hesitate If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroy...

"The Mahabharata is not a work of religious instruction. It is much greater. It is a work of art. It understands men will always fall i...

What a beautifully written piece! Shared by a dear friend. And it was such a wonderful surprise to see Pico Iyer also in there! I missed Kur...

'Thinking like a mountain' was one of the books recommended by Malvika Solanki during an amazing permaculture course I did with her ...

I started reading the 'No 1 Ladies Detective Agency' series many years ago, after I read a recommendation - and have been hooked on ...

  James Godfrey-Faussett: "100 years ago Ethiopia was blanketed by 45% forest and now that figure is down to just 5%. Part of the survi...

When I was a child, every monsoon season, I spent a lot of time rescuing small insects drowning in pools of rain water in the hilly green ar...

"Speaking as a Chinese, I do not think any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophist...

"..The greater the imaginative power of a man, the more perpetually he is dissatisfied. That is why an imaginative child is always a mo...

Anne Lamott wrote this in June 2018, but so relevant to the present! "The world can feel like an alcoholic father sitting in the living...

 Amazing facts shared by my farmer friend Madhu Reddy , from an article in Down to Earth :  "The Baiga are an ethnic group found in ce...

Am I walking a little ahead of you  so that no snake will bite your sandalled foot?  John Berger Page 44, 'And our Faces, My Heart, Brie...

Over And Over Tune   You could grow into it, that sense of living like a dog, loyal to being on your own in the fur of your skin, able to ex...