Country Driving

To know more about China, I picked the book 'Chasing China: How I went to China in search of a fortune and found a life'. It has the mayhem of the traffic and the author spending time at a house maintained as a part hotel. I didnt get too far with that. I did not expect much with this book too.
'Country Driving''s main appeal is in that the author knows the language of the place. In his travels he takes us along to different geographical places - loess, desserts. While he is covering all this ground tracing the Great Wall, nothing escapes his attention, the narrow alleys of hutong or the yaodong, cave homes.

Aug 12,2010

cotidiano

I was reading Spanish 'Nuevo testamento' aided with an English version of it and a bilingual dictionary. When I came across 'pan cotidiano' - daily bread. I was reminded of quotidian. This made me happy.

Happiness that follows from a sense of achievement.
Life has promise.
Plato on Happiness

Tree and a Machine

An acacia tree with its trunk making its ways in three directions like a circle of girls holding hands and swaying. This lack of edges is so soothing. Its a break from maquin - machines. But the strangeness of machines is not the lack of their soul. Down the line it aids people.

Travel light

Look at any picture
Imagine yourself in it
Now turn to night
and see how
theres the object
in front of you.

Might there not be another
light
that can show more
than what you see
in the day

Womb

We come from the same
deep cave
we care
fed from the same
placenta
theres a phantom cord
that holds us
that tugs me back
to this world
each time I want to
free fall

Austerity

plans in
Spain
Romania

Shouldnt it
be by choice?

Pursuit

of hapiness
ranks with freedom

right to happiness
right to define
happiness