Meaningful questions and a poem.

Meaningful Questions

* Why is the place in a stadium where you SIT, called a STAND?

* Why is that everyone wants to go to HEAVEN but nobody wants to DIE!

* Shall I say that there is racial discrimination even in chess, as the WHITE always moved FIRST.

* We have FREEDOM of SPEECH, then why do we have TELEPHONE BILLS?

* If money doesn't grow on TREES then why do banks have BRANCHES?

* Why doesn't GLUE stick to its BOTTLE?

* Why do you still call it BUILDING when it's already BUILT?

* If it's true that we all are here to HELP others, what are the others HERE for?

* If you aren't supposed to DRINK and DRIVE, why do bars have PARKING lots?

* If all the nations in the world are in debt, where did all the money go?

* When dog food is 'New with Improved Taste', who Tests it?

* If the "Black Box" flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn't the whole airplane made out of that stuff?

* Who copyrighted the copyright symbol? 

* Can you cry under water?

* Why do people say "You've been working like a dog", when dogs just sit around all day?

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From Blossoms

From blossoms comes 

this brown paper bag of peaches

we bought from the boy

at the bend in the road where we

turned toward

signs painted Peaches.

From laden boughs, from hands,

from sweet fellowship in the bins,

comes nectar at the roadside,

succulent

peaches we devour, dusty skin and

all,

comes the familiar dust of summer,

dust we eat.

O, to take what we love inside,

to carry within us an orchard, to eat

not only the skin, but the shade,

not only the sugar, but the days, to

hold

the fruit in our hands, adore it, then

bite into

the round jubilance of peach.

There are days we live

as if death were nowhere 

in the background; from joy

to joy to joy, from wing to wing,

from blossom to blossom to

impossible blossom, to sweet 

impossible blossom.

- Li-Young Lee

Tailpiece.

Got up on the dot at 6, the chores and was ready by a quarter to 10. 

The ayurveda acharya, Dr PK Warrier passed into the mist of time today. We'd just celebrated his 100th birthday last month. Om Shanti! Sadgati.

Participated in the Aazhchakkoottam : "Impact of PN Panicker National Reading Day/Reading Month Celebration" by Dr B Shadrach, Global Library Expert from 1600-1730 hrs. Interesting!

Participated in the webinar : "School Health Programme and Vaccination" by Dr Pankaj Srivastava, Cardiologist, Janus Initiatives. Interesting!