tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65276152024-03-23T23:52:17.510+05:30Geodesics to GalaxiesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger157125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6527615.post-28918267180572675852010-01-03T21:04:00.001+05:302010-01-03T21:04:51.550+05:30Hard At Work<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/geodesic/4240321071/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4014/4240321071_dc152b03d0_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br clear="all" /><p><i>For me the diamond dawns are set<br />In rings of beauty,<br />And all my ways are dewy wet<br />With pleasant duty.</i><br /><br />~John Townsend Trowbridge</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6527615.post-11855265281584661442010-01-02T12:03:00.001+05:302010-01-02T12:03:24.919+05:30A New Beginning Together<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/geodesic/4235700585/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4028/4235700585_c91fa19bed_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br clear="all" /><p><i><br />And ye, who have met with Adversity's blast,<br />And been bow'd to the earth by its fury;<br />To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently pass'd<br />Were as harsh as a prejudiced jury -<br />Still, fill to the Future! and join in our chime,<br />The regrets of remembrance to cozen,<br />And having obtained a New Trial of Time,<br />Shout in hopes of a kindlier dozen.<br /></i><br />~Thomas Hood<br /><br /><b>Happy New Year, Everyone!</b></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6527615.post-28308566243848527322009-04-26T18:30:00.001+05:302009-04-26T18:30:26.182+05:30Dig into the water<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/geodesic/3476336938/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3635/3476336938_a736734c68_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br clear="all" /><p><i> I have no pithy sayings for this!!</i> <b> :) </b></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6527615.post-34139720008595836672009-02-14T10:24:00.001+05:302009-02-14T10:24:54.031+05:30A Touch Of Love<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/geodesic/3278231720/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3353/3278231720_83fbb7b46b_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br clear="all" /><p><i>Must, bid the Morn awake!<br />Sad Winter now declines,<br />Each bird doth choose a mate;<br />This day's Saint Valentine's.<br />For that good bishop's sake<br />Get up and let us see<br />What beauty it shall be<br />That Fortune us assigns.<br />~Michael Drayton </i></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6527615.post-50546545132425341272009-02-14T09:56:00.001+05:302009-02-14T09:56:10.831+05:30Prayers<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/geodesic/3277300421/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3452/3277300421_0d6af2dac3_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br clear="all" /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6527615.post-66324057043230909522009-01-27T22:41:00.001+05:302009-01-27T22:41:13.159+05:30Playtime<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/geodesic/3231946096/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3098/3231946096_50181050a0_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br clear="all" /><p><i>I'd give all wealth that years have piled,<br />The slow result of Life's decay,<br />To be once more a little child<br />For one bright summer day.<br /><br />~Lewis Carroll, "Solitude"</i></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6527615.post-14162467397784499122009-01-20T22:52:00.001+05:302009-01-20T22:52:28.884+05:30New Beginnings in the New World<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/geodesic/2400089221/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2254/2400089221_4fe44130a9_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br clear="all" /><p>Congratulations to Americans on their newest President. Wish them all the best!<br /><br />I am actually jealous...if only we had one Indian politician so young and so charismatic. <br /><br />Kudos to the man for managing to win over a people so diverse and so outspoken!</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6527615.post-31917713978280138562009-01-11T15:11:00.001+05:302009-01-11T15:11:17.778+05:30Here's to new beginnings<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/geodesic/3174874987/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3266/3174874987_c813ff99ee_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br clear="all" /><p><i>For last year's words belong to last year's language<br />And next year's words await another voice.<br />And to make an end is to make a beginning.<br /><br />~T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding"</i></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6527615.post-51581084320432128912008-06-04T17:50:00.001+05:302008-06-04T17:50:32.156+05:30Brilliant Blues<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/geodesic/2550315252/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3171/2550315252_57311da300_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br clear="all" /><p>'Tis my faith that every flower<br />Enjoys the air it breathes!<br /><br />~<i>William Wordsworth, "Lines Written in Early Spring," Lyrical Ballads, 1798</i></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6527615.post-12525524045440798032008-04-02T08:53:00.002+05:302008-04-02T08:53:49.731+05:30Blazing Skies<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/geodesic/2356167543/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3063/2356167543_cce7f0a30c_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);" /></a> <p>“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”<br /><br /><i>- Rabindranath Tagore</i></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6527615.post-69269202044355068442007-12-19T09:15:00.001+05:302007-12-19T09:16:11.293+05:30Trees<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/geodesic/2121293457/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2236/2121293457_9755c99c31_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);" /></a> <p>I think that I shall never see<br />A poem lovely as a tree.<br />A tree whose hungry mouth is prest<br />Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;<br />A tree that looks at God all day<br />And lifts her leafy arms to pray;<br />A tree that may in Summer wear<br />A nest of robins in her hair;<br />Upon whose bosom snow has lain;<br />Who intimately lives with rain.<br />Poems are made by fools like me,<br />But only God can make a tree.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">~Joyce Kilmer, "Trees," 1914</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6527615.post-955953627267643162007-11-10T20:27:00.001+05:302007-11-10T20:27:49.243+05:30Places<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/geodesic/1792283011/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2168/1792283011_176dfe4588_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br clear="all" /><p>How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you - you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences - like rags and shreds of your very life. <br /><br /><i>~Katherine Mansfield</i></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6527615.post-80906749980794772262007-10-21T20:49:00.001+05:302007-11-11T19:04:19.852+05:30Sunset<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/geodesic/1634552186/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2270/1634552186_ca9c6a6718_m_d.jpg" alt="" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);" /></a><br /><br />Taken at Clingman's Dome in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.<br />Check it out on <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=Clingman%27s+Dome+Overlook+%4035.56274401870864,-83.4996771812439&ie=UTF8&ll=35.563652,-83.499677&spn=0.007244,0.014591&z=16&iwloc=addr&om=1">Google Maps</a>.<br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6527615.post-640942532627457012007-10-21T20:46:00.001+05:302007-11-10T20:22:24.670+05:30Reflections<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/geodesic/1633679715/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2375/1633679715_4131e54aaa_d.jpg" alt="" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);" /></a> <p>"We cannot see our reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see."<br /><i><br />~Taoist proverb</i></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6527615.post-48812512010299074192007-10-12T07:51:00.001+05:302007-10-12T07:52:15.227+05:30Light<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/geodesic/1547112125/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2396/1547112125_1544d61ad5_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);" /></a> <p>Alas! must it ever be so?<br />Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go,<br />And fight our own shadows forever?</p><p style="font-style: italic;">~Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6527615.post-73898001757114173012007-09-03T10:50:00.001+05:302007-09-03T10:50:56.368+05:30A piece of the sky<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/geodesic/861063300/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1161/861063300_3c5a8579a0_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br clear="all" /><p>The soft blue sky did never melt<br />Into his heart; he never felt<br />The witching of the soft blue sky!<br /> <br />- <i>William Wordsworth</i>, Peter Bell</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6527615.post-60398580381705696572007-08-19T04:28:00.001+05:302007-08-19T04:28:54.681+05:30Serenity<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/geodesic/861064474/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1362/861064474_3ed1ca16c1_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br clear="all" /><p>Take me and cast me where you will; I shall still be possessor of the divinity within me, serene and content.<br /><br /><i>~Marcus Aurelius</i></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6527615.post-48573616215752478192007-07-15T19:27:00.001+05:302007-07-15T19:27:25.449+05:30Dream on<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/geodesic/796268552/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1161/796268552_650716e8a5_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br clear="all" /><p>"What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story, And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams."<br /><br /><i>Pedro Calderon de la Barca</i></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6527615.post-66734147133770591362007-06-07T10:59:00.001+05:302007-06-07T10:59:41.603+05:30A thing of beauty<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/geodesic/534148784/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1357/534148784_49e26e4538_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br clear="all" /><p>A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:<br />Its loveliness increases; it will never<br />Pass into nothingness; but still will keep<br />A bower quiet for us, and a sleep<br />Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.<br />Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing<br />A flowery band to bind us to the earth,<br />Spite of despondence, of the inhuman dearth<br />Of noble natures, of the gloomy days,<br />Of all the unhealthy and o'er-darkened ways<br />Made for our searching: yes, in spite of all,<br />Some shape of beauty moves away the pall<br />From our dark spirits. Such the sun, the moon,<br />Trees old, and young, sprouting a shady boon<br />For simple sheep; and such are daffodils<br />With the green world they live in; and clear rills<br />That for themselves a cooling covert make<br />'Gainst the hot season; the mid-forest brake,<br />Rich with a sprinkling of fair musk-rose blooms:<br />And such too is the grandeur of the dooms<br />We have imagined for the mighty dead;<br />All lovely tales that we have heard or read:<br />An endless fountain of immortal drink,<br />Pouring unto us from the heaven's brink.<br /><br /><i>~John Keats, Endymion</i></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6527615.post-58943391013800883832007-05-29T10:37:00.001+05:302007-05-29T10:37:59.857+05:30Clouds<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/geodesic/519328938/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/192/519328938_219f8e3a8d_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br clear="all" /><p>Cloud-walls of the morning's gray<br />Faced with amber column,<br />Crowned with crimson cupola<br />From a sunset solemn.<br />May-mists, for the casements, fetch,<br />Pale and glimmering,<br />With a sunbeam hid in each,<br />And a smell of spring.<br /><i>~Elizabeth Barrett Browning</i></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6527615.post-77327473607538322282007-05-28T18:45:00.001+05:302007-05-28T18:45:14.336+05:30Summer<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/geodesic/517766106/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/228/517766106_74d11db888_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br clear="all" /><p>To see the Summer Sky<br />Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie -<br />True Poems flee.<br /><i>~Emily Dickinson</i></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6527615.post-48054095788623724442007-02-14T09:31:00.001+05:302007-02-14T09:34:03.713+05:30Little Flower<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/geodesic/380091629/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/177/380091629_73dc8d8888_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);" /></a> <p>Little flower -- but if I could understand<br />What you are, root and all, and all in all,<br />I should know what God and man is.<br /><br /><i>~Lord Alfred Tennyson</i>, <span style="font-size:85%;">"Flower in the crannied wall"</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6527615.post-5051048807433760192007-01-29T10:25:00.001+05:302007-01-29T10:26:51.617+05:30Choices<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/geodesic/372803045/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/166/372803045_a677b74e09_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);" /></a> <p>"O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other."<br /><br /><i>~Thomas Carlyle</i><br /><i> The French Revolution</i>, vol. I, book II, chapter 1 </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6527615.post-34179928121116894482007-01-18T18:24:00.001+05:302007-01-18T18:25:35.727+05:30Little Kingdoms<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/geodesic/361501891/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/137/361501891_e3bb0b83b6_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);" /></a> <p>“Away from the world and its toils and its cares,<br />I've a snug little kingdom up four pair of stairs.”<br /><br /><i>-William Makepeace Thackeray</i></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6527615.post-9493494903092916882006-12-12T07:46:00.000+05:302006-12-12T07:51:54.617+05:30Point of View<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/geodesic/260298870/" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/119/260298870_aedcc1751d_m.jpg" alt="An Ant's Perspective" height="160" width="240" /></a><br /><br />Set out from any point. They are all alike. <br />They all lead to a point of departure. <br />~<span style="font-style: italic;">Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4