Christmas Again... but what a difference...
It is the first Christmas without my classroom... It is a bit odd and a bit funny too...
We had Christmas Baskets initiatives... Each class was assigned a needy family from the local community and the students brought in food and gifts... We stuffed the baskets... I always encouraged the students to bring more and more and more... "till it almost hurts..."
I encouraged them... and they responded... We were all happy...
But, I initiated caroling... My students came in 3- minutes early and together we sang carols in the atrium - main lobby of the school... All of us had fun and all of us were happy...
This is the first Christmas without these routines... and I sort of miss them...
I guess i have to reschedule my routine and find other ways to be relevant and to be helpful... and I am sure I will find my way...
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yesterday I did not post anything on the blog... I was thinking... and I decided to enter GOOD initiatives from now till New Year... may be that will be part of my new routine... I will not dwell on the negative aspects of the news and will try to see the positive in everything... May be you can try that too... May be after a while it will be habit forming too...
May be you and I will be able to see the positive in all and in everything... may be we will start sharing more... may be we will love more... may be we will work for PEACE and HARMONY more...
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My daughter emailed me the advertisement below...It is a very good advertisement...
I realize that consumerism has taken over all aspects of our lives... I realize that the ideals of Christmas are overwhelmed by our consumer culture and aggressive wars...
Consumerism has initiated GREED and greed has ushered in wars...
Organized religion... and organized state... the Big Brothers of Church and state... have lead us astray...
But this commercial has a GOOD and human way to sell things and also to dwell on PEACE...
War is mean... War is inhuman... War is not Christmasy...
My daughter had a line attached to her email... "The best commercial that I have seen for Christmas..."
May be ushering in PEACE will be the next step...
May be sharing and peace and harmony will be our routing all year round...
Sing a Carol in the trenches... Hope that the carols will abolish the trenches between people...
Shake you "enemies" hand too... After all, the enemy is a human being too...
Greet each other with a smile... Hug each other with love and care...
We should not have memories like this...
It is Christmas...
If we can go to the moon... to Mars... and imagine the universe...
We can eliminate the casualties of wars too...
In fact we can eliminate wars...
A change of attitude and change of our norms and mores is needed...
may be we can alter the consumer culture and the greed and may be we can share more...
and
Maybe we can line in PEACE and HARMONY...
May be we can initiate clubs of PEACE WITHOUT BORDERS...
May be we can start groups of HARMONY WITHOUT BORDERS...
Check the link below...
Is Torture Allowed...?
If we extrapolate the logic of torture...
then the Islamist-Jihadist beheadings will be allowed too...!
If we can do it... then they will do it too...
May be the answer is not in TORTURE but in LOVE and UNDERSTANDING... and PEACE...
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An Alternative for the War machine
and
Big Brothers...
Built beautiful things... Do not bomb quarrel and be mean...Hug each other in PEACE...
Engineers and Architects can innovate and invent... and produce useful tools and beautiful space to HELP humans achieve PEACE and HARMONY... and pursue HAPPINESS...
In Colombia, the four-sided Torre del
Reloj gate grants access to the most charming part of Cartagena – a walled
section of 18th-century mansions, leafy squares and street cafes. The tower and
clock were added in 1888; in the foreground, a statue of city founder Pedro de
Heredia keeps watch. (Guillermo Vasquez/Flickr)
Clockmaker Hanuš,
who perfected Prague’s Old Town hall Tower in
1490, was supposedly blinded so that he wouldn’t make a more beautiful version
elsewhere. As the perfect revenge, Hanuš stopped the clock from functioning,
and it was 100 years before someone would figure out how to repair it. The
clock is known for its 12 marching apostles; a skeleton on the right, depicting
Death, starts the show by pulling on a string and looking at his other hand, in
which he holds an hour-glass. Then, two windows open, allowing the apostles to
make their moves. A magnificent late-Gothic door in the adjacent house serves
as the main entrance to the Old Town Hall. (Reed Kaestner/Corbis)
and
and
San Francisco’s ferry Building, a Beaux-Arts building with a 245ft-tall tower, was the
city’s primary point for arrivals and departures between 1898 and the late
1930s, when the Golden Gate and Bay bridges were built. Inside, a 660ft-long
skylit atrium that once provided access to ferries now houses shops and
restaurants, including Blue Bottle Coffee and the Asian
restaurant Slanted Door. It is especially crowded on Saturday mornings
when a farmers’ market takes over the space in front and in the rear of the
building, overlooking the bay. (Julie Clarke-Bush)
Completed
in 1897 by the British colonial administration, the Sultan Abdul Samad Building anchors Kuala Lumpur’s Merdeka Square. Its Moorish style can be attributed to the
mosques that architect AC Norman observed while in India. The Union Jack flag
was replaced by the Malaysian flag on 31 August 1957, and many national events
have taken place here since. (Boris Henriot)
“Big Ben” was originally a nickname used for the
gargantuan bell inside the London clock tower. These days, the moniker refers
to the bell, the clock face and the 315ft tower too – though the beloved icon
was officially renamed the Elizabeth Tower in 2012, as part of Queen Elizabeth
II’s Diamond Jubilee celebration. Built from the inside out, the stone and
granite tower got its finishing touch with the clock tower’s installation in
1859. The cast-iron minute hands proved too heavy, so they were replaced with
today’s lighted copper hands. (Paul Hardy/Corbis)
Triumph of Human ingenuity...
When the brain works on HELPING the environment and others... It produces miracles...
A turbine is lowered into place in water in the north of
Scotland. The waters around the region of John O'Groats, at the
nothernmost tip of the United Kingdom, produce powerful tidal surges twice a
day.
The waters around Pentland Firth produce some of the world's most powerful tides and waters can run as fast 18mph. With water 832 times denser than air, investors say that more turbines can be run on less space. The power source also has the advantage of being invisible.
Traditional wind turbines are considered by many to be detrimental to the aesthetics of the environment and under water... submerged turbines will eliminate the eye sore too...
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PEACE ON EARTH
Today is the sixteenth day of Advent
My neighbour has all the house lit... My neighbour's house is in joy... and all dressed up and ready to party...
I put up outside lights too... not as extravagant as my neighbour's... but enough to be noticed...
Our house is in joy too...
I have been lazy, but soon I will put up our Christmas tree too...
The Prince of PEACE is coming to town...
Wake up with a carol in your heart and get involved... Make peace on earth reality
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It is Christmas... initiate new routines... and celebrate PEACE and HARMONY...
Be active and usher in PEACE...
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