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What a tidal salt marsh can teach about interdependence, resilience and healing

The marshes have their own unique way of commiserating with the human condition. Along half a mile of floating boardwalk through a marsh in Saw Mill Creek, a tributary of the Hackensack river, I encounter parallels to my own life. The Kingsland marsh discovery trail on an impoundment in the Richard DeKorte Park, southern part…

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My niece is besotted with Elsa from Frozen. She wears the dress over or under everything and can’t do without her crown. In the sequel to the film, Olaf the snowman gets lost in the enchanted forest where Gale, the wind spirit makes him so dizzy that he suffers an existential crisis. He concludes through his ordeal that he is yet to grow up and when he does, everything will make sense. It is easy to grow up in real life, we seem to have our paths laid out for us that we imitate in the manner of our forebears and peers. Yet, it isn't easy to toe this line, for we still think about the meaning.and purpose of our existence. I do too, just like Olaf, who also believes it lies in the soaking up of facts, to learn more and then add to this by further inquiry and action.
The faces of womanhood
Happy Valentine's Day !
An early Valentine's day (I am counting the days to Spring, a month more to go)
The inspiration for this poem lay in a snippet of poetry that the wonderful actor, the late Irrfan Khan voices to a pomegranate plant in the movie Karwaan (Hindi). He say this, to the sapling of Anarkali (pomegranate bud):
Dendrites to dendrites
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