A New Tulip Capital

Guys, will delete this post soon, coz I am starting to think I should have only those pictures that I talke featured on this site. But wanted to share, that soon India will be the new tulip capital...

Art of Love and Grocery Stores

“For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.--Rilke

I saved these following pages for a while--mainly with the idea of writing a post.  Threw them out a few months ago, after I took these pics. 

This was distributed a bit before valentine's day some years back.  Imagine walking into your regular grocery store and they hand you these pages with a survey.  

What is it for?  You ask,

Oh, if you like someone and want to talk to them, here are a few questions ----that you can ask them to get to know them better. Imagine how lucrative it can be for grocery stores ---if they become dating hubs? 

Seriously? At a grocery store?  That reminded me of aa joke from Seinfeld.  Seinfeld says, 'My grandfather often says, you need to people in their natural environment where they are doing regular things, rather than create formal, artificial dates."

Sure says-- Seinfeld 'I have often wondered how would it be to meet someone in a grocery store and ask them' he extends his arms 'would you like to dance"

Under the Weeds

First published 8 years ago--EIGHT--wow, (July 7, 2012)--here it is again, just coz t'is the season....

I have been told to remove the 'ograss' (not grass, or weeds in swedish).  And so, I did.  Although these pretty dandelions can be used in salads and soups.  I removed them. And found something else underneath.....

Life.....

Some may call them snails.  I identify with them to a certain extent.  For I carry my home, on my back. 

Some call them pests, but to eat leaves and grass is their nature.  In any case, life (as I read in Joseph Campbell's works) lives on life. You cannot eat something that was not alive at some point. Can I kill them to protect my garden? And is my garden, my few plants, are they valuable enough to kill this life? Of which I know little .....could I be as inconsequential to it or others as it seems to me?

So, I let it be.  I picked them and kept them by the roadside. I wish I could have taken them to the skogan (forest) but this was before I got my bike.  Yes, they will destroy in order to live, in order to survive where ever they go...but are we any different?

The following pictures are just from the neighborhood, of how life thrives in summer.  Even when we consider it destroyed by pests, it grows and grows, shrubs, trees, flowers and weeds alike...then how can a few snails....be any harm.....