DAYS IN COUNTRY

morning in the hills. Lying still in repose for a bit longer is an option, but one would miss out on markings of pre-history. Dawn, inspiring Sun, a call to Adventure, exhausting Walks, that probability of discovering something unheard.  

APPA DEEPO BHAVA (Be Your Own Light)

Focus on the lamp's wick
as you light it,  let it light other ones
ruminate on your action, reflect
stay true stay right


find a patch of grass
lie flat upon it, all fours
look up and immerse
as your being shrinks
and gradually disappears

it was brief
it was fleeting
this journey we made
together, but for that span
what a life it was !

WHAT MODERNITY LEFT ALONE....

Be a Bird and run a sweeping gaze across the
valley below. Own that view.  Travel finds us
places and sights of a world that existed before
modern lifestyle pigeonholed us, climate controlled
it, cab-scurried us through masses, clock-timed our
days and nights, and enslaved us to a ringing gadget..

                                                                                  

COORG - LAND OF KUDUGAS

The thing with Tourism loving states is that they don't give you a heads up that a certain place is undergoing renovations and so only partly accessible. A meandering journey on up and down roads gets one there and then the surprise ! Local economy thrives on you making the trip, and their hush and smile are consensual. But that joy of journey, being in the presence of majestic monuments, peace and serenity of spiritual earth, oh... simply bliss.  

AMBLING THROUGH POCKETS OF NATURE

A walk through woods in early winter has you breathing in the purest air known to mankind. City is now distant blur. Noises of traffic, phone, doorbell, or marketplace, all cancelled out from one's consciousness. So you notice... floating clouds, hues of green, Quietness.  Western Ghats. Mangalore. Coorg. Pristine.