tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8420823035638356912024-03-13T11:42:35.171-07:00AbrahamIs it possible to tell others who I am ?
Is it important for others to know who I am ?
Well it help them in any manner to know who I am ?
If it helps them become better, wiser, richer, healthier by knowing me... how does it help me? just as I amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01717604718412762451noreply@blogger.comBlogger391125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842082303563835691.post-78326403405923041622023-08-20T05:53:00.001-07:002023-08-20T05:53:19.924-07:00The Bible is Life... and it's Wonderful !<p> <span style="font-size: x-large;"> <b><i>A</i></b></span>lmost all of us have had at least one copy of the GOOD NEWS BIBLE (GNB). This English Bible was first published in 1966, as a New Testament-only version. Later in 1976, the Old Testament too was published. Further, this Bible went through two major developments in 1976. The British and Foreign Bible Society anglicized the earlier American edition with the use of metric measurements and the work of the Old Testament was completed and the full Bible was published as the Good News Bible (GNB). </p><p>I got my first GNB when the Catholic Head Master of my school gave me a copy. The year was 1978. From the first day itself, there was something that connected me to this Bible edition. They were the line drawings in them. Probably, this is the only Bible ever produced in the 2000-year Jeudo-Christian history, accurately conveying the Bible story and the salvation message through illustrations using line drawings. The accuracy of these line drawings is phenomenal.</p><p>I was curious to know who the creator of these drawings was. The preface to the 1978 edition has the information that “ these illustrations were specially prepared for this edition of the whole Bible by the Swiss artist Ms. Annie Vallotton”. It is noted that this information is absent in the GNB printed in the further years in India.</p><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgriTcELLOOn9SwjKJGajG0-cE7l4udivuERnplxAyCLCeJp4iEmiBe35DIrv9og9N6xQiQjH6LpdeBtDeRC_uk3eyVPhtjHDrOVrC3OX2PLPx6CzGszbN-ozbqEbbKWl8n8zIB42QoQNI/s640/Photo_1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgriTcELLOOn9SwjKJGajG0-cE7l4udivuERnplxAyCLCeJp4iEmiBe35DIrv9og9N6xQiQjH6LpdeBtDeRC_uk3eyVPhtjHDrOVrC3OX2PLPx6CzGszbN-ozbqEbbKWl8n8zIB42QoQNI/w397-h298/Photo_1.jpg" width="397" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">The mention of Ms. Annie Vallotton in the 1978 edition. <br />In the further editions, we cannot read this informatio</span></i>n. </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 18.4px;"></span></div><div><div>Ms. Annie Vallotton was a committed, believing, and church-going Christian born in Switzerland. She was deeply involved with drawing Christian themes even at a young age. As a lifelong Christian, she set out to do illustrations wherever she could to spread the Good News of Salvation. She was associated with Scripture Union and illustrated many of their small publications and giveaways. She was also active in illustrating many Christian books for African missionary organizations. </div><div><br /></div><div>Ms. Vallotton set out to create the story of Jesus with her pioneering line drawings as her first major work. Titled ‘Priority’, she drew 60 illustrations completely telling the story of Jesus. The publisher was not able to sell any of this book and had to dump the whole 3000 copies into a river in northern France. But God Almighty had a bigger plan and had a larger readership ready for Ms. Marie Vallotton. She was not disappointed but continued to journey, illustrating Christian themes. Soon, her work became noticeable across the Atlantic. American Evangelical Christians began to know about her gifted ability for line drawings. It was Eugene Nida, the linguist who associated with the American Bible Society who wanted to utilize Annie Vllotton’s gift of line drawing. He wanted her to work on illustrations in telling the Bible story in the most simple manner, in the upcoming GNB edition of the Holy Bible. It is said that on a chilling frosty day when Nida met Annie at Stuttgart Airport, it took only 10 minutes for this man of God and a woman of God to decide upon the commencement of a big illustration project: to illustrate the whole of GOOD NEW BIBLE. What followed was the creation of more than 500 lively illustrations of the Bible characters and the story by her. She later, in a 2008 interview said, “I did some of the drawings 80-90 times before I achieved the one I wanted. I wanted to get to the truth… the most important thing.” Even the art critics agree that her work in the GNB was the most evocative, suggestive, funny, moving, and subtle delineations of the Bible text of any, created so far. She was often told by Christians that her drawings have been a means of grace and windows into the sacred text of God. Even the Conservative Christians commented that her pictures never distracted from the sacred text, and her pictures never tried to interpret the story. The cornerstone of her success was to remain childlike in her work and see and read child-like the Word of God.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXk2qnLFmIFF4GgNEqYs_5LJjUceqK33LFXD_j3WA6bMYRIf-3PQlkm-UkKNXGTF4knS8e7TYHDljhwK2SOMc27LdmiMMJfgae9Fqyw2L82_hTrGGmvyUUKSFfl7KqdiXtDWO_eAIf8PE/s640/Image_1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" data-original-height="464" data-original-width="640" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXk2qnLFmIFF4GgNEqYs_5LJjUceqK33LFXD_j3WA6bMYRIf-3PQlkm-UkKNXGTF4knS8e7TYHDljhwK2SOMc27LdmiMMJfgae9Fqyw2L82_hTrGGmvyUUKSFfl7KqdiXtDWO_eAIf8PE/w398-h289/Image_1.jpg" width="398" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Angels inform shepherds of the birth of Christ.<br />(courtesy Annie Vallotton/ The Good News Bible)</span></i><br /><br /><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>When the work of illustrating the Bible was done and when the GNB was published, Vallotton’s simple drawings had a profound interest in how stories could be illustrated accurately using simple lines. Each of her drawings showed what the stories stood for, and all the emotions and liveliness of the dynamic Bible were embedded in them. <span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 18.4px;"></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3IDYLLwgxtAo1miVbI2QRflc2YLCtKy-7ArQyUifE-iMIcMcZ_Q5-f33v16oc8qbXw79-DNpDKnuwRl_g3zOly9CVzN1u6c19cbshjF8eSUlFPyYHuXrBfAZcwJosj9zGX-k7nXvVb90/s600/6a00d8341c6bd853ef01a5118ad2cf970c.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="406" data-original-width="600" height="279" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3IDYLLwgxtAo1miVbI2QRflc2YLCtKy-7ArQyUifE-iMIcMcZ_Q5-f33v16oc8qbXw79-DNpDKnuwRl_g3zOly9CVzN1u6c19cbshjF8eSUlFPyYHuXrBfAZcwJosj9zGX-k7nXvVb90/w412-h279/6a00d8341c6bd853ef01a5118ad2cf970c.jpg" width="412" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>The picture of Ms Vallotton on tour in the US, 1966.<br /><br /></i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div>Let’s take the book of Malachi… 4:2 tells us "MY SAVING POWER WILL RISE ON YOU LIKE THE SUN"….and look at how Annie has sketched it! The joy of that person when God’s saving power strikes him. The message is so vibrant in her simple strokes of pen on paper. </div><div><br /></div></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy_XADr5aqwzB7S1H7ZWsMfa_09WUauccRNoJdU8Gdqf0X28GOCoH_0fbMrVbVRjoTsrP_DP50CVjTSTBq06_DwTnQw3slkR5C5oNSQNPePVaXU5mvw_sVGae586LuKxs63uatoNyXjts/s640/Image_3.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="525" data-original-width="640" height="327" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy_XADr5aqwzB7S1H7ZWsMfa_09WUauccRNoJdU8Gdqf0X28GOCoH_0fbMrVbVRjoTsrP_DP50CVjTSTBq06_DwTnQw3slkR5C5oNSQNPePVaXU5mvw_sVGae586LuKxs63uatoNyXjts/w381-h327/Image_3.jpg" width="381" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">"My saving power will rise on you like the sun" <br />(courtesy Annie Vallotton/ The Good News Bible)<br /><br /><br /></span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;">Let’s take Genesis 4:6… the illustration shows Cain and Abel. Cain was a farmer and Abel a shepherd. Look at the physical body build of the farmer … he has a significant masculine body ( like today's farmers), whereas a shepherd was lean. The farmer was half-dressed, whereas the shepherd wore a full gown. And look at the facial expression. With little strokes of the pen, the artist could make Cain’s face bad enough for God to intervene…“ Why that scowl on your face?” God asked.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9IdxC4WlT2NxuwCZZL4toGbQpEVpA0MzZr4-j5nAQKDnJzKxkPKIuePeLCCX30v55n28LLFn4nwE3sd2CS9p7GSMIgys4jHqadwLFA60mEJ6V3yXDog9t5uNUbrgt5micAZ-r-b9k9eo/s640/Image_4.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="583" data-original-width="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9IdxC4WlT2NxuwCZZL4toGbQpEVpA0MzZr4-j5nAQKDnJzKxkPKIuePeLCCX30v55n28LLFn4nwE3sd2CS9p7GSMIgys4jHqadwLFA60mEJ6V3yXDog9t5uNUbrgt5micAZ-r-b9k9eo/s320/Image_4.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">“ Why that scowl on your face?” God asked.<br />(courtesy Annie Vallotton/ The Good News Bible)</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="font-size: medium;"></p><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Ms. Vallotton's use of shadows is another big contribution to the line-drawing technique. She was conservative in the use of shadows. But wherever she used, it, it served the purpose. Look at Isaiah 5:22 … Heroes of the wine bottles…..Though simple, it gave all the dynamism a figure wanted. Look at Philippians 3:14… I run straight towards the goal.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkyD4VVLDAo4cGT14BVbGksdxSjhGeGbRbzcGHlviPkObuJb1LJ3YFZ7XugINnJCAnA_6POfROJU0dtMUdLbDRKtyL9XvtBN2mhapQpqrkImwRqq5pPJZWYzFdd3UA6E5qrNXfAg6j-EI/s640/Image_6.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="442" data-original-width="640" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkyD4VVLDAo4cGT14BVbGksdxSjhGeGbRbzcGHlviPkObuJb1LJ3YFZ7XugINnJCAnA_6POfROJU0dtMUdLbDRKtyL9XvtBN2mhapQpqrkImwRqq5pPJZWYzFdd3UA6E5qrNXfAg6j-EI/w368-h254/Image_6.jpg" width="368" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>"Heroes of the wine bottles..." <br />(courtesy Annie Vallotton/ The Good News Bible)<br /><br /><br /><br /></i><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvTTK3TZqHy05HnfrtXF0zqovEGpq5Qql_jjyF9NdfSVESoYQQ2DxIBn-Nh3rf0O1wt08VdZUVTrqkD2C5AO_4_J-LOr7MXXmyqYaoxaGMXCbdpJtG7gyHM_01W5_yfdYAx_vnf0k-azM/s865/Image_5.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="865" data-original-width="640" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvTTK3TZqHy05HnfrtXF0zqovEGpq5Qql_jjyF9NdfSVESoYQQ2DxIBn-Nh3rf0O1wt08VdZUVTrqkD2C5AO_4_J-LOr7MXXmyqYaoxaGMXCbdpJtG7gyHM_01W5_yfdYAx_vnf0k-azM/s320/Image_5.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>"I run straight towards the goal"<br />(courtesy Annie Vallotton/ The Good News Bible)<br /><br /><br /></i><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;">By 1969, GNB distributed 17.5 million Bible copies, and by 1970, 30 million. Today, more than 225 million copies have been distributed since its release in 1966, and each of those Bibles carries the simple and beautiful illustrations made by Vllotton…. 225 million Bible copies ( and still growing), each carrying 500 and more illustrations on almost every page of its! HarperCollins claims that Ms. Vallotton is the ‘Bestselling Artist of all time!’ and according to the press release of Harper Collins, Ms. Vallotton’s illustration sales are more than 70 billion-!!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Ms Vallotton, who could not sell even 100 copies of her first major work in ‘Priority’ ( and which was thrown off into a river by the publisher) was later used powerfully by God. Never in the history of the world has any art illustrator had this level of success in his/her career, in print media publications. </span><br /><br />What a wonderful God, Vllotton believed in! When Vallotton was asked in an interview about her ‘Bestselling Artist of all time’ achievement, she laughed aloud and said, “Too many people read the Bible with a severe face! I say no, the Bible is not that! The Bible is life, and it is wonderful!” </span></p><p style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgffogQNgcKrYovziMF6sXARCkDERiBtghVbvtlyVorG71ExRxfVsNQvKFZ3ngIQuRv6Yw7DDlNT4SK4HKJveBUMMTVnIhESZJWuGH59_6ctreDk0F_fZOMGZFF1whth0IkUfFnwP-2WpM/s800/Photo_2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="340" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgffogQNgcKrYovziMF6sXARCkDERiBtghVbvtlyVorG71ExRxfVsNQvKFZ3ngIQuRv6Yw7DDlNT4SK4HKJveBUMMTVnIhESZJWuGH59_6ctreDk0F_fZOMGZFF1whth0IkUfFnwP-2WpM/w453-h340/Photo_2.jpg" width="453" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Ms. Annie Marie Vallotton was called to rest by God on<br />December 28th, 2013, at the age of 98.</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;"></span><p style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="font-size: medium;"></p></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><br /><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 18.4px;"></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>just as I amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01717604718412762451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842082303563835691.post-34470205239723996112022-02-05T20:00:00.004-08:002022-02-05T20:51:40.457-08:00How do we look ahead and predict?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjVEDFl172OXPrKA_UYuEmGPIdcU8a8eqtm0TzQ2BzGyDMXUdhmcn4OYOIavFDOcpzIpKwOz7eg6ssAEoylYluld8jHTEIFAW9KlvxZYMJ934czJLdFWa7xlgfSJNFpCyfFzxGF68gUiXo4GVrqUpp3jp7duGj7ok0sP6TYLazCe9OO8ZX1HuXVkBjA=s681" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="383" data-original-width="681" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjVEDFl172OXPrKA_UYuEmGPIdcU8a8eqtm0TzQ2BzGyDMXUdhmcn4OYOIavFDOcpzIpKwOz7eg6ssAEoylYluld8jHTEIFAW9KlvxZYMJ934czJLdFWa7xlgfSJNFpCyfFzxGF68gUiXo4GVrqUpp3jp7duGj7ok0sP6TYLazCe9OO8ZX1HuXVkBjA=w470-h264" width="470" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(Picture Courtesy: 'Macbeth' / Apple Original Films/A24) </td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;">Every time, the most difficult element facing the pack leader is to make decisions today that will affect his organisation tomorrow. The ramifications of his decision will affect his family or his small and medium business organisation or his clients. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It is well understood that Astrology and sorcery were/are practised by some leaders in different social strata, when they are/were totally helpless and pinned to the walls, unable to make a decision. <br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Recently, I was reading ‘Macbeth’ and it struck me how history can go bloody and evil when people in position takes a wrong turn. Macbeth is a classical tragedy! And in ‘Macbeth’ there is a scene (Scene III) where the brave and loyal Banquo goes to consult the 3 witches to hear them prophesy about the future: “to look into the seed of time and say which grain will grow and which will not”. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgUPWmFII2X-COhlBF9tvRtIq6Ai4L0QVVvGo2RyOrlm5-PLZBOtu9rL_Xxjuf3KE2BoLQG6H_XL4jdxxuIc1kmmj7eJ8WsTC2KsNQzCJ-dP9wGnjS3yg1sX5Fh5MrPeKi2KeUp_boa6jBZ36mCqAEklgmz7vbuB59E10MpGGwehGLN5WX8WWDlxFUV=s640" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgUPWmFII2X-COhlBF9tvRtIq6Ai4L0QVVvGo2RyOrlm5-PLZBOtu9rL_Xxjuf3KE2BoLQG6H_XL4jdxxuIc1kmmj7eJ8WsTC2KsNQzCJ-dP9wGnjS3yg1sX5Fh5MrPeKi2KeUp_boa6jBZ36mCqAEklgmz7vbuB59E10MpGGwehGLN5WX8WWDlxFUV=w411-h308" width="411" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Looking into “the seed of time” is both a science and an art. What is the average life span of a BSE large-cap company? How many of them will breathe through another 10 years? How many Indian companies can find ways to “look into seeds of time”? Can leaders constantly look into the changing environment of customer needs? </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">One of the most simple ways to keep looking into the seed of time and say which will grow is to be very attentive to our customers. That’s King Rule in my business. When a customer comes to us, we listen to him/her … look straight into their eyes, see how their face talk to us … how they sound. Then we know them better. And, we know what big or small services we can render to them to keep them as our long-standing clients. ( Did they talk to us last time about a specific problem they faced when they had approached us? Did they talk last time about the Google Pay requirement? If so, should we implement Google Pay in our transactions? Are they comfortable telling us a very private matter about why they are taking cash credit from us? Are they comfortable if we ask them about their family goings? Or, Can they call us anytime to take our advice if their bike has a troubleshooting requirement along a difficult terrain?). </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj7lbcIkCXaM1DfOsCOumyQliKBitKSFEMDICwmPC0z4MlnE97q0DtB_R5YiBNpOodjG1U8y2tP6GWgUaSaq7BW6zW6E3kHhZcsmk_mCIw0VlyuUqyNGGUAVwG1F-zFd8Z4xS5cPTPHk5xtzKKtaPWPLO3Qc_la7grJBeqZCqg0Yc2PyjZc7sywhq9_=s564" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="564" data-original-width="564" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj7lbcIkCXaM1DfOsCOumyQliKBitKSFEMDICwmPC0z4MlnE97q0DtB_R5YiBNpOodjG1U8y2tP6GWgUaSaq7BW6zW6E3kHhZcsmk_mCIw0VlyuUqyNGGUAVwG1F-zFd8Z4xS5cPTPHk5xtzKKtaPWPLO3Qc_la7grJBeqZCqg0Yc2PyjZc7sywhq9_=w291-h261" width="291" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Being
attentive to our customers is the most important element in any business. One
doesn’t need an MBA from a business school to practice this! And … It can be as
small as giving them a bright coloured rubber band to fasten the cash bundle,
smiling at them and speaking a few words of genuine assurance, as they take
currency from the counter. Or, as someone rolls out their bike from our
workshop, wish them a happy journey and ask them to give us their feedback. Or, it can
be as big as deputing a mechanic to a faraway place to fix a broken bottom-bracket
on their rig.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiUR9_XJpChWhcVuL8mgBA3TPFkLQ-KRXY-WVL-lh5CDSYkGmCU2zkF-l7k7SVMzq5BWVzAnmefHGCR2335Q6UcMOUwnS2Zrv3Y20iapez9fkRmpex96PZEfLmoF8tjB_xQyqGT4jMPTxX6gk04AFqJJmBNntQuY88uF_puXfiwXrThKRYLKcN1yl1M=s654" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="654" data-original-width="541" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiUR9_XJpChWhcVuL8mgBA3TPFkLQ-KRXY-WVL-lh5CDSYkGmCU2zkF-l7k7SVMzq5BWVzAnmefHGCR2335Q6UcMOUwnS2Zrv3Y20iapez9fkRmpex96PZEfLmoF8tjB_xQyqGT4jMPTxX6gk04AFqJJmBNntQuY88uF_puXfiwXrThKRYLKcN1yl1M=s320" width="265" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Look into the seeds of time and tell which will grow and which will not … constantly listen to the clients. Without them, you aren't here!</span><p></p>just as I amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01717604718412762451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842082303563835691.post-11229630311143715262021-10-14T22:35:00.007-07:002021-10-14T22:52:17.449-07:00The Tick Tick days <p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Dear
Friends, I wish you all a blessed and holy season of prayers, as we Indians
celebrate a special day of prayer and look towards God blessings upon our days.
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">WHEN was
the last time you sat by the surf and listened to the sound of your passions? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We hear so many sounds all around and fail to have
our hearts fixed to them. Today I want to tell you of one small jingle I listen
to too often and to which I am fixed. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
is the story of my passion for mechanical wristwatches and mechanical clock
moments. Like my thoughts on time, I often have the heart to think of time
makers: the wristwatches. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">As I grew
up, I always nurtured a passion for watches. I would look carefully at anyone
who had a big watch or a relatively small watch. In the evenings, when my Dad
comes home, he would take off his fat watch and place it on the study. And I
would climb the chair and slowly roll my eye around his watch. Those kindergarten
days never told me anything about watches… it took some time for me to know
that it was a Rolex chronometer. Mom’s rectangular gold colour thin watch was
always kept in her locker. I seldom noticed it. But I did understand that it
was one thing she treasured much. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was
a West End Swiss. <br />
<br />
My first watch was a hmt ‘Vijay’. I loved it as I would love my first real bicycle.
Times ticked by and soon I saw a watch whose second hand would jump in a
pulsating manner, instead of smooth and flowing small steps. They called it ‘Quartz’,
… and some of the boys whose dads were expatriates were owning those new
watches. It took more years for me to own one of those ‘quartz’ movements
myself. They never impressed me anything more than the laziness which is instilled
in giving up the routine of winding a watch or listening to the moving world
inside a watch. </span></p><p>
<span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">More years have ticked by. And in these moments my
collection of chronometers have also improved and I have gathered a handful of
chronometer-friends too. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We make interesting
one-to-one contacts often. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not all of
them are mechanical diehards as I am. But we listen to each other and enjoy our
ticking passion. <br />
<br />
Mechanical movements are at the heart of a watch. I am an enthusiast of only the
mechanical. One of my friends always proselytizes me about those electric battery-powered
watches. Somehow, his words don’t get into my veins. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Why?” he asked me last week. “ Isn’t it romantic
and so real to power our time from within ourselves?” My time is only mine: my
most personal, most valuable and most intangible of all worldly assets. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How can I make a battery cell charge those
precious moments? And why should I take another share in polluting the world
with poisonous metal concentrates from those tiny batteries? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Clean time” I would call it, like “clean
mobility” I call my bicycles. <br />
<br />
The Basel Fair is the watchmakers’ <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Olympics and the world of chronometer fans. In
the 1986 Basel Fair, one Japanese company unveiled a prototype watch that would
become<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“a powerhouse of technological
innovation”. They called it “kinetic”. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We cannot call the kinetic an electric watch
because the prime energy is mechanical and only the secondary energy is
electrical. Wearing a kinetic is like holding a new time upon your hand. <br />
<br />
How fast time keeps ticking! Today, we don’t wear a watch or listen to it its tiny
tick for the sheer purpose of knowing the time, but it is something of a jewel,
something as close and persona as our wedding ring… something which tells about
our lifestyle and our ethos. I still have a burning passion for probing the
best of the chronometer world… and a childlike inquisitiveness to hear
tick-tick stores go on and on. <br />
<br />
I am sharing the video of a passionate young Jap watchmaker. If there is one
word in English to describe his passion, then it is “INCREDIBLE”! ... (https://youtu.be/ZTiPNqeMS8E)<br />
<br />
May the God of Time bless us evermore … <br /><br />P. S : HMT India has re-stared the manufacture of mechanical and other select models of their watches. That is a good news. <br /><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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is so important to let certain things go. To release them. To cut loose. Don't
expect to get anything back, don't expect recognition for your efforts, don't
expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Complete the
circle. Not out of pride, inability or arrogance, but simply because whatever
it is no longer fits in your life. Close the door, change the record, clean the
house, get rid of the dust. Stop being who you were and become who you are!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Paulo Coelho</i></span></blockquote><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal">Becoming<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who I am is
a lifelong mission. The world looks at an individual in different eyes. But do
we have to look at the world in what makes us unique?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Becoming Who I am will look like a lot of
rubbish in the eyes of the world if I fail to make money and name… because
that’s what defines an individual in today’s social circle. One observation I
make of people is their affiliation to clubs, their affiliations to people’s
groups and even social movements which flatten out their unique individuality most.
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">There are times when we got to build our dreams all by our
own hands,… by our imagination and by our strength… it may involve relocation,
reformatting or a re-new-ing of our beliefs and value systems. We might have to
do it simply because “it no longer fits” into our present days or our today’s
journey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A little deep voice within us
that constantly echoes our passion and vision will tell us of our vocation here
on earth. I love to listen to that voice constantly. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The first time I read the poem “If” by Rudyard Kipling, it echoed in me an
invitation to lead a stoic attitude towards many of today’s social beliefs. “If”
left in me a very deep challenge. I got it written on a wooden board and hung it
on a visible wall at home. I like that poem in reference to the strong voice of
aloofness and individuality. “Come what may… keep going my son”, Kipling tells his boy. The main message is not to get caught in emotions and be carried away
by the contemporary flow of the world. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Someone said, “It takes courage to answer a call”. True, it
takes a lot of courage to make up our journey, our very own journey and pedal
with it all the while. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If we can live a life not to convince anyone and not to be
in an ego trap, …. if we can fail to fall victim of a social belief or to a
world that looks to overtake us… then we can pedal our wheels of freedom, to pedal aiming
the golden sunset of our journey called life. <br /><br />Still, it takes courage to be
what we are.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br />Keep going ... </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH4kypa1fTDayHjAXWfNOFsQKwVJGV0nhvZaydyiaTjxSQ8WnIANK4Y8n2Xr2tSXg-D2wC7VLSepb9Pv7cW8iOIR9G6lCio4eEbYbGU_Vad-pNLAUbilD4Y_4rkwLNct0oCPqt5qiWvNY/s2048/IMG_0542.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1847" data-original-width="2048" height="332" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH4kypa1fTDayHjAXWfNOFsQKwVJGV0nhvZaydyiaTjxSQ8WnIANK4Y8n2Xr2tSXg-D2wC7VLSepb9Pv7cW8iOIR9G6lCio4eEbYbGU_Vad-pNLAUbilD4Y_4rkwLNct0oCPqt5qiWvNY/w368-h332/IMG_0542.JPG" width="368" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>
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year 2008. At the US Consulate in Chennai, I was standing in a long line at for
VISA clearance. Behind me was a cassock robed elderly priest. From the cassock
he wore, <span> </span>I guessed he was from Catholic
denomination. After making a few eye contacts, I accosted him in a
conversation, “Father, are you for a VISA clearance to US?” … “ Yes, going on a
parish mission.” “Me too”, I said. Then <span> </span>I
sprang up more courage to continue the conversation, and chipped in, “ Father,
do you think we deserve all this?<span> </span>That
old rugged empty cross made our journey possible, isn’t it ?” <span> </span>He smiled having no words to answer. <br /><br /><br /></span></span></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Calibri", "sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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year 1913… a small church in Pokagon was arranging a series of revival meetings.
The Pastor was Rev. Leroy Bostwick, and he had called his friend Rev.Bennard to
assist him in singing. Bennard was a gospel singer and an evangelist. A couple
of weeks before assisting Rev. Leroy, he was singing a verse and chorus he had
written, <span> </span>in a small revival meeting at
Michigan. <span> </span>Bennard was ridiculed over
that song by a group of youths who attended the prayer meeting. <span> </span>But, traveling to Pokagon to assist Bostwick,
Bennard did not quit on those verses he had scribbled. He studied more about
the Cross and its significance.</span></span></span></span></div><p dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;"></p><p dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" dir="rtl" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5U3mUVIvmRfKl58fHlJoJSlhNwaA8rTgKwYvN70tBEoiQcXqwnJ5RWdAHsMSQJRBC_xkeCAEjfzj_RpGt109SEq-oJZRI3S69L8DY8DrHm04F6Jxomw36GY7KXyroeuFSLOBPlOHXAsc/s640/Fath_Hope.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5U3mUVIvmRfKl58fHlJoJSlhNwaA8rTgKwYvN70tBEoiQcXqwnJ5RWdAHsMSQJRBC_xkeCAEjfzj_RpGt109SEq-oJZRI3S69L8DY8DrHm04F6Jxomw36GY7KXyroeuFSLOBPlOHXAsc/s320/Fath_Hope.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></div><div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><u><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></u></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><u><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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the revival meeting was in progress. And Bennard was working on the verse he
had sung at Michigan. He sought the assistance of Rev. Leroy’s wife, Ruby, to
be a sounding board for redoing his song. As the days progressed, at the church
parsonage, he added more verses and composed the music… and he was readily strumming
his guitar for a rehearsal. As Bennard ended his first rehearsal,
it is said that Ruby was weeping aloud on her knees, in the presence of her husband
Rev.Leroy.<span> </span>Later that day, on 12<sup>th</sup>
January 1913 (the last day of the revival meeting), a gospel song was born
which would influence every Christian who would ever listen to it. That song
went on for 100 years and more to be performed by some of the twentieth
century's most important recording artists in the West. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><p><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><u><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </u></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><u><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zyfR7URb8TY" width="320" youtube-src-id="zyfR7URb8TY"></iframe></u></div><u><br /></u><p></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US">Each time I
hear the ‘The Old Rugged Cross’, it shatters <b>ALL</b> my sense (myth) of self-righteousness.
Where am I? What am I?<span> </span>How am I? … these
questions which reverberate in me will all end, I know, only when “my trophies,
at last, I lay down …<span> </span>(and when) I will
cling to the old rugged Cross … And exchange it someday for a crown <span>.</span>” <br /><br />"The Old Rugged Cross" to me is the one the great eloquence of Christian faith at all ages. <br /><br />~Fine~<br /><br /><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></span></p>
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</xml><![endif]--></span></span><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">THERE are things in life we don’t know where they originated from… may be a pandemic
virus or a word in a song we often sing. </span></span></span><br /></p><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">
<br />
How powerful is an English word? This is a question many users of English ask
themselves when they use a word for expressing their thoughts or emotion. Today
a drummer will drum in the streets to show his protest or to demonstrate his
support, a cyclist will cycle from one tip of the nation to the other, a runner
will run and tell the world his message… footballers raise pay cards in
stadiums and soldiers raise their nation’s flag to flutter their victory on enemy
soil. But we need words ... and we need words to express ourselves to others… “Kumbaya” is just a summation of three English words.<br />
<br />
When a group of people "Kumbaya", what exactly is their expression all about? <span> </span>Originally, the "Kumbaya" was a folk expression…
one such word that expanded its tentacles to campfire classics. Then in the 1920s,
it was adapted as a negro spiritual. The first recorded evidence of this song
exist since 1926 and is on a wax cylinder preserved in the American Library of
Congress. <span> </span>The expression "to Kumbaya" is for the
English words, “Come by here”, as spoken by the Negros. And it was used to
compose a Christian evangelical worship song. <span> </span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_Q9oLFt8KcsrHWGFWpmwj31VX8dVTvPVNmdc_ND2Xjg__KH1n77nLOfKcCeG551ZYja4TcAqaMk8caMOynLbCbtKaMVwoJK2w_V_wohIn3OL2UTs6Ak6PAkGSzfEzLTlpydRuxnOSM4w/s2048/IMG_0755_1.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_Q9oLFt8KcsrHWGFWpmwj31VX8dVTvPVNmdc_ND2Xjg__KH1n77nLOfKcCeG551ZYja4TcAqaMk8caMOynLbCbtKaMVwoJK2w_V_wohIn3OL2UTs6Ak6PAkGSzfEzLTlpydRuxnOSM4w/w424-h318/IMG_0755_1.jpg" width="424" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> <br />
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The warmth and the closeness one feel when we “Kumbaya” is magical.
Have you ever held hands together around the fire and said “Kumbaya” with your
best friend? If you haven’t, please do it! As the sun wakes us up every morning
and if there is a great sense of helplessness in our daily actions when the
path ahead is unclear, any believer needs the personal closeness of God, that’s
the “Kumbaya”… it is a mystical fusion of oneself with his God. “Kumbaya” can cross
the spiritual borders , if there is a deep relationship between those with whom we “Kumbaya". That is where this expression becomes intimate around a campfire or
across your best friend, standing close in your arms. <br />
<br />
But why “Come by here”? Why not “Come here?” … There is a big big difference in
it, isn’t it?<span> </span>“Come here” can be
anywhere here. But when you come “by here”, your stand close to the person you
are coming to. Hence “Kumbaya” is a close proposition between you and the
person coming near into your… it is not only come by here, but it is also <u>merging</u>
in the closeness of devotion and love … it is <u>a synergy of friendship</u> between a
helpless friend and a powerful friend. <span> </span>Our
"Kumbaya" moment is a moment of <u>infusion of love and closeness with God Almighty</u>.
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</span></span><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">But the
words and expressions have their weaknesses when they are imbued into the mainstream,
political or civil usage. <span> </span>The expression
"Kumbaya" is one of them. When we like to agree to disagree and go ahead
peacefully with someone, a single word which the liberal and civil population can
express is “Kumbaya”. Outside the borders of Christian spirituality, "Kumbaya" comes
easy for civil rights protesters, pacifists and new generation resistant activists.
But strange enough, this has discounted this powerful Negro English expression. It has
become a weak expression and is a term of derision on the streets, as in English
media and literature. </span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlriWOgAWbPE3l7U82x1fhc0ef-LjcNUx6tI-HlgZvY7r6C2bwYYKLppNOua65pEzNDgnelKE5RloY7atzmp9NABvncJum9EQvzNOrd1LhGKdzd0epy7U6ab23uGqyNIDaekAi6dqvqj0/s2048/IMG_0739.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlriWOgAWbPE3l7U82x1fhc0ef-LjcNUx6tI-HlgZvY7r6C2bwYYKLppNOua65pEzNDgnelKE5RloY7atzmp9NABvncJum9EQvzNOrd1LhGKdzd0epy7U6ab23uGqyNIDaekAi6dqvqj0/w366-h366/IMG_0739.jpg" width="366" /></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span></span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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will not see “Kumbaya” in the Merriam Webster dictionary because “Kumbaya” has
not become an English word yet. They have placed it in the “Words We're
Watching” list. But for me, “Kumbaya” is one of the greatest expressions of
intercessory prayer…. and a one-word English expression of friendship. <br />
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</span></p>just as I amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01717604718412762451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842082303563835691.post-30549035203242056882021-06-19T22:51:00.008-07:002021-06-19T23:17:04.701-07:00A Sunday rumblings .... <p> <span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">THE pandemic has come to a certain close. That’s what we all believe. This is time to go ahead. And we are at the harbinger of a new beginning after all the lockdown days. The world has changed dramatically since 2020. Today, more than any other times, people search endlessly to discover the most precious investment they can make in these uncertain times. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Post-lockdown, life has become more complex, more cyber, more digital, more demanding and more challenging. There are more passwords in our lives today than yesterday. And, the most important single lesson lockdown has taught me was all about my TIME. And, I believe, the most important investment anyone can make towards themselves is the management of their DAILY TIME. <br /></span><br />The majority of participants in this socially networked group will be in our middle life or the latter half of the middle life or better, in our golden age. I am conscious of how people suddenly see me today as an “uncle”. I became annoyed the other day when a supermarket staff accosted and demanded my age ID card. I am sure many in this group also have had similar experiences. But, what I thought was not all about how others recognize us, but about how we’ll manage the time left in us by God. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Today, society is in a hunger for more and more abstract thoughts around social media, around news channels and around a world of cacophony </span><span style="font-size: large;">called distraction. The pernicious effect of these media machines is far too complex to understand. <u>They all struggle to grab our attention, our time and our mental resources to themselves</u>... I struggled to get out of those media platforms since the last two lockdowns. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>Scarcity</i> of time is a phenomenon all of us experience. Even on a lockdown day, when all our missions are static, we cannot find the time we need for getting on with what we have planned. This scarcity in time will bring in a phenomenon called <i>tunnelling</i>. Tunnelling is a behaviour we succumb to when we need to finish a project or a task on time, and when there is a time scarcity for its accomplishment. <u>When we set aside all our thoughts and all our peripheral activities to pin sharply on the task we are doing, we are tunnelling.</u> Tunnelling is good and tunnelling is bad. I discovered that social chats, social media activities and mental involvement in various news were a major distraction of any task I am grilled to. It is very important to plan our time productively if we are to use any of the social media platforms for our excellence. <br /><br />Sometimes we ramble into book shops. I rambled into a book shop and brought home three volumes of an author by the name STEPHEN R COVEY. Like many books I have purchased, these 3 books remained in my study, closed and unread for years. The second pandemic lockdown made it possible for me to open it…. and read. One most important lesson Stephen teaches in these books is how personal change can be achieved by taking control of our time. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLH5z3otTSNgA_NE8GWqksMZJAOpwB4MdiO9PBmmiOarduiSaiZd88pkSuZuOjhlqjwua7WqU3jra-F22NjaiMMcxSdMLxuTCczdoAwEcY9xRr75TN-f2LjCemAkjpDYlm2rL5DHk7bxo/s853/image_6483441.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="853" data-original-width="640" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLH5z3otTSNgA_NE8GWqksMZJAOpwB4MdiO9PBmmiOarduiSaiZd88pkSuZuOjhlqjwua7WqU3jra-F22NjaiMMcxSdMLxuTCczdoAwEcY9xRr75TN-f2LjCemAkjpDYlm2rL5DHk7bxo/w202-h269/image_6483441.JPG" width="202" /></a></span></div><span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I am recommending all my friends to have these three volumes of Stephen Covey on your study table today and read them through. You are going to make a big difference in the way you will manage your time and other needful resources. These reading are going to change the way you look at your time. <br /></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq_sTGvKlhNWpIqbTxtmXko9-xaW-l7FvA4J45eXWAYDJy1eck5w6Iv0OoUraCT4egxSjL1qLX-HkqTq4GAKtmbuSuKbnf4HBnf7nYOdMbgWjz6KwWct3JJMfDsxzUHxlhd9Rsu9KUAAg/s853/IMG_7343.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="853" data-original-width="640" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq_sTGvKlhNWpIqbTxtmXko9-xaW-l7FvA4J45eXWAYDJy1eck5w6Iv0OoUraCT4egxSjL1qLX-HkqTq4GAKtmbuSuKbnf4HBnf7nYOdMbgWjz6KwWct3JJMfDsxzUHxlhd9Rsu9KUAAg/s320/IMG_7343.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYT2rzxNMtGbGFwilU4USe_yeem_1ocuIsUmZCe8xYU-lW7szZYisV6Uh73BdQ4FyXuMgM3dHxLKiPrekkjqeGy7Q_xHWr49nuip25ptoT0MTGws8q6YVs7wzc5-dTrKi58zszZ0YgdXs/s640/IMG_7341.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYT2rzxNMtGbGFwilU4USe_yeem_1ocuIsUmZCe8xYU-lW7szZYisV6Uh73BdQ4FyXuMgM3dHxLKiPrekkjqeGy7Q_xHWr49nuip25ptoT0MTGws8q6YVs7wzc5-dTrKi58zszZ0YgdXs/s320/IMG_7341.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Age is no barrier to a personal change.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> And it's all because</span><span style="font-size: large;"><u> <b>YOUR TIME is the most precious commodity God has placed into your hands. </b></u><br /><br />Wishing a happy reading to all!<br /><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>just as I amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01717604718412762451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842082303563835691.post-1338763234717055842021-06-13T08:49:00.002-07:002023-08-20T05:35:47.248-07:00The Bible is life, and it is wonderful!<p> <span style="font-size: medium;">Almost all of us have had at least one copy of the GOOD NEWS BIBLE (GNB). This English Bible was first published in 1966, as a New Testament-only version. Later in 1976, the Old Testament too was published. Further, this Bible went through two major developments in 1976. The British and Foreign Bible Society anglicized the earlier American edition with the use of metric measurements and the work of the Old Testament was completed and the full Bible was published as the Good News Bible (GNB). <br /><br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I
got my first GNB when the Catholic Head Master of my school gave me a copy. The year was 1978. From the first day itself, there was something that
connected me to this Bible edition. They were the line drawings in them. Probably, this
is the only Bible ever produced in the 2000-year Jeudo-Christian history,
accurately conveying the Bible story and the salvation message through
illustrations using line drawings. The
accuracy of these line drawings is phenomenal. <br /><br /><br /></span>
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was curious to know who the creator of these drawings was. The preface to the
1978 edition has the information that “ these illustrations were specially
prepared for this edition of the whole Bible by the Swiss artist Ms. Annie Vallotton”.
It is noted that this information is absent in the GNB printed in the further
years in India. <br /><br /><br />
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<!--[endif]--></span></span><p></p><p><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Ms. Annie Vallotton was a committed, believing, and church-going Christian born in Switzerland. She was deeply involved with drawing Christian themes even at a young age. As a lifelong Christian, she set out to do illustrations wherever she could to spread the Good News of Salvation. She was associated with Scripture Union and illustrated many of their small publications and giveaways. She was also active in illustrating many Christian books for African missionary organizations. <br /><br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Ms. Vallotton
set out to create the story of Jesus with her pioneering line drawings as her
first major work. Titled ‘Priority’, she drew 60 illustrations completely
telling the story of Jesus. The publisher was not able to sell any of this book
and had to dump the whole 3000 copies into a river in northern France. But God Almighty
had a bigger plan and had a larger readership ready for Ms. Marie Vallotton. She
was not disappointed but continued to journey, illustrating Christian themes.
Soon, her work became noticeable across the Atlantic. American Evangelical
Christians began to know about her gifted ability for line drawings. It was
Eugene Nida, the linguist who associated with the American Bible Society who
wanted to utilize Annie Vllotton’s gift of line drawing. He wanted her to work on illustrations in telling the Bible
story in the most simple manner, in the upcoming GNB edition of the Holy Bible. It is
said that on a chilling frosty day when Nida met Annie at Stuttgart Airport, it
took only 10 minutes for this man of God
and a woman of God to decide upon the commencement of a big illustration
project: to illustrate the whole of GOOD NEW BIBLE. What followed was the
creation of more than 500 lively illustrations of the Bible characters and the
story by her. She later, in a 2008 interview said, “I did some of the
drawings 80-90 times before I achieved the one I wanted. I wanted to get to the truth…
the most important thing.” Even the art
critics agree that her work in the GNB was the most evocative, suggestive, funny,
moving, and subtle delineations of the Bible text of any, created so far. She was
often told by Christians that her drawings have been a means of grace and
windows into the sacred text of God. Even the Conservative Christians commented
that her pictures never distracted from the sacred text, and her pictures never
tried to interpret the story. The cornerstone of her success was to remain
child-like in her work, and see and read child-like the Word of God.<br /></span></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXk2qnLFmIFF4GgNEqYs_5LJjUceqK33LFXD_j3WA6bMYRIf-3PQlkm-UkKNXGTF4knS8e7TYHDljhwK2SOMc27LdmiMMJfgae9Fqyw2L82_hTrGGmvyUUKSFfl7KqdiXtDWO_eAIf8PE/s640/Image_1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" data-original-height="464" data-original-width="640" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXk2qnLFmIFF4GgNEqYs_5LJjUceqK33LFXD_j3WA6bMYRIf-3PQlkm-UkKNXGTF4knS8e7TYHDljhwK2SOMc27LdmiMMJfgae9Fqyw2L82_hTrGGmvyUUKSFfl7KqdiXtDWO_eAIf8PE/w398-h289/Image_1.jpg" width="398" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Angels inform shepherds of the birth of Christ.<br />(courtesy Annie Vallotton/ The Good News Bible)</span></i><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">When the work of illustrating the Bible was done and when the GNB was published, Vallotton’s simple drawings had a profound interest in how stories could be illustrated accurately using simple lines. Each of her drawings showed what the stories stood for, and all the emotions and liveliness of the dynamic Bible were </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">embedded in them. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
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the dynamism a figure wanted. Look at Philippians 3:14… I run straight towards
the goal.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkyD4VVLDAo4cGT14BVbGksdxSjhGeGbRbzcGHlviPkObuJb1LJ3YFZ7XugINnJCAnA_6POfROJU0dtMUdLbDRKtyL9XvtBN2mhapQpqrkImwRqq5pPJZWYzFdd3UA6E5qrNXfAg6j-EI/s640/Image_6.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="442" data-original-width="640" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkyD4VVLDAo4cGT14BVbGksdxSjhGeGbRbzcGHlviPkObuJb1LJ3YFZ7XugINnJCAnA_6POfROJU0dtMUdLbDRKtyL9XvtBN2mhapQpqrkImwRqq5pPJZWYzFdd3UA6E5qrNXfAg6j-EI/w368-h254/Image_6.jpg" width="368" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>"Heroes of the wine bottles..." <br />(courtesy Annie Vallotton/ The Good News Bible)<br /><br /><br /><br /></i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></i></span><p></p><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>
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Today, more than 225 million copies have been distributed since its release in 1966, and each of those Bibles carries the simple and beautiful illustrations made by Vllotton…. 225 million Bible copies ( and still growing), each carrying 500 and more illustrations on almost every page of its! HarperCollins claims that Ms. Vallotton is the ‘Bestselling Artist of all time!’ and according to the press release of Harper Collins, Ms. Vallotton’s illustration sales are more than 70 billion-!!<br /><br />Ms Vallotton, who could not sell even 100 copies of her first major work in ‘Priority’ ( and which was thrown off into a river by the publisher) was later used powerfully by God. Never in the history of the world has any art illustrator had this level of success in his/her career, in print media publications. <br /><br />What a wonderful God, Vllotton believed in! When Vallotton was asked in an interview about her ‘Bestselling Artist of all time’ achievement, she laughed aloud and said, “Too many people read the Bible with a severe face! I say no, the Bible is not that! The Bible is life, and it is wonderful!” </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><br /><br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgffogQNgcKrYovziMF6sXARCkDERiBtghVbvtlyVorG71ExRxfVsNQvKFZ3ngIQuRv6Yw7DDlNT4SK4HKJveBUMMTVnIhESZJWuGH59_6ctreDk0F_fZOMGZFF1whth0IkUfFnwP-2WpM/s800/Photo_2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="340" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgffogQNgcKrYovziMF6sXARCkDERiBtghVbvtlyVorG71ExRxfVsNQvKFZ3ngIQuRv6Yw7DDlNT4SK4HKJveBUMMTVnIhESZJWuGH59_6ctreDk0F_fZOMGZFF1whth0IkUfFnwP-2WpM/w453-h340/Photo_2.jpg" width="453" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Ms. Annie Marie Vallotton was called to rest by God on <br />December 28th, 2013, at the age of 98.</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><i><br /></i></span><br /><p></p>just as I amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01717604718412762451noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842082303563835691.post-30040027233228919112020-08-31T18:49:00.008-07:002020-08-31T18:52:40.449-07:00A Prayer <p> </p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: roboto, robotodraft, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBsRTnAc6E8LAuMvyNbCyaUpMmUDvZWwlEaP61bO__ngj4ZpWO9z5t-IRPe7g4o0evZdEp9sF44TmkUf8T5pKHllV2E3bRcd0Dn7PtgyKrMkAEG88T9e96ssdPPa6ZMm1qN7CuFEza5ZU/s2000/surly-bridge-club-diablo-4+%25281%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1333" data-original-width="2000" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBsRTnAc6E8LAuMvyNbCyaUpMmUDvZWwlEaP61bO__ngj4ZpWO9z5t-IRPe7g4o0evZdEp9sF44TmkUf8T5pKHllV2E3bRcd0Dn7PtgyKrMkAEG88T9e96ssdPPa6ZMm1qN7CuFEza5ZU/s640/surly-bridge-club-diablo-4+%25281%2529.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="m_-8475994958826875797editor-text m_-8475994958826875797headline-text" style="color: #315376; display: block; font-family: "lucida sans unicode", "lucida grande", sans-serif; font-size: 28px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 20px; text-align: center;" valign="top">A Prayer<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: roboto, robotodraft, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="m_-8475994958826875797editor-text" style="color: #4b4b4b; display: block; font-family: "lucida sans unicode", "lucida grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 20px;" valign="top"><div></div><div><div>" Dear Lord,</div><div><br /></div><div>Today I thought of the words of Vincent van Gogh: “It is true there is an ebb and flow, but the sea remains the sea.” You are the sea. Although I experience many ups and downs in my emotions and often feel great shifts and changes in my inner life, you remain the same. Your sameness is not the sameness of a rock, but the sameness of a faithful lover. Out of your love I came to life, by your love I am sustained, and to your love I am always called back. There are days of sadness and days of joy; there are feelings of guilt and feelings of gratitude; there are moments of failure and moments of success; but all of them are embraced by your unwavering love. . . . O Lord, sea of love and goodness, let me not fear too much the storms and winds of my daily life, and let me know there is ebb and flow but the sea remains the sea.</div><div><br /></div><div>Amen." .... (Rev. 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Yes, Easter can be a time of the season when we can think of a reborn experience. Life is all about repeated attempts to do things correctly, ... life is all about going back to basics and getting our aims and dreams once again placed in order. If we cannot go back, or if we cannot learn from the mistakes, or redo something for better, then we are destined to live in a ship which is going nowhere. It need not be a big act ... it can be doing the most ordinary in an extraordinary manner....it can be trusting in our own resources and not depending on others for each and everything around. </div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">The question I ask myself on this Easter is simple: How have I lived up to myself? Often, an event like the Biblical Easter gives us a window of opportunity to make a renewal... a transformation or a change for the better. Shamefully, with a feeling of sorrow for betterment, I look at the past year and examine if I can resurrect my dreams and joys now on this Easter day ... <br />If Jesus can win to make us immortal to death, by giving us the spirit of renewal, can't we go back to little acts in our daily lives which will add up to our victory? Life ahead is all tough, rough and gravel. But, may the spirit of Easter give us the joy to live a renewed life with a new light of ambition. </span></div>
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remain positive and sound throughout the day. It is a greater realization that
we all have a journey to make today. And everyone’s journey is unique. I want to share with you two thoughts on the way of our journey... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica;">With a broken and confused agenda, if a person
comes to us, can we put him off by telling him about a world of problems? I think
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<span><br /></span></div><span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span>There is a Christian Classical ( a </span><span face="sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"> </span><span>theological fiction) called, the Pilgrim's Progress, written by John Bunyan. It was written more than 300 years ago and is cited as the first novel written in English. But even today, every reader can take home something of value from it. I like it much because it is a story of a man who keeps on going under all circumstances. He looks forward and just keeps going little by little to his destination. True, the journey isn't easy. But a dynamism in his ethos keeps him moving on.</span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">That's a great message Bunyan has for today's world.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: calibri; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> 2020 lockdown was a fresh chance for me to reread the Pilgrim's Progress and rediscover it better. The greatest takeaway inspiration which I have drawn from this classic is the sheer tenacity of this heaven-bound tourer to keep on traveling to his destination. </span></div><span style="font-family: calibri; font-size: x-large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkmp__j1KHMpEJTmRkXhNwyuM-WDvH4KGNiaKs6STOX_eadNCGT4gthncSDRo-5UOF7s8_t-E8GxwTa4gbDH9VllH-DPKZ5CVgGA5XsxMgql7HOeaiQ-_iVPI0PSehYQpX_FjiO6yCfvM/s452/IMG_6848.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="419" data-original-width="452" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkmp__j1KHMpEJTmRkXhNwyuM-WDvH4KGNiaKs6STOX_eadNCGT4gthncSDRo-5UOF7s8_t-E8GxwTa4gbDH9VllH-DPKZ5CVgGA5XsxMgql7HOeaiQ-_iVPI0PSehYQpX_FjiO6yCfvM/s320/IMG_6848.PNG" width="320" /></a></div></span></span><div style="margin: 0px 0px 13.33px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span>There is another book I must tell you a little about: Jordan B Peterson's 12 Rules of Life. It is in it we'll read about the Rule 8 : The importance of truth. </span></span><span><span><span>Peterson’s approach to the whole theory of rules of life is hinged on the importance of truth. The vast majority of
problems in society are generated by dishonesty. Simple as it is, today’s social
media are out to manipulate the world. Add a spin to the truth. One of the
most difficult and dangerous worlds of economic news is the manipulated statistics
and market data. Millions of dollars are made or lost due to dishonest news. The scheming, sloganeering, and the propaganda machines
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winning Soviet physicist visiting a school. He was accosted by a young boy in
lower primary class and was asked, “Sir, What is this thing called time?”</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Perplexed, the physicist thought for a moment
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<b><span style="color: black;">Often think of the rapidity with which things
pass by and disappear, both the things which are and the things which are produced.
For substance is like a river in a continual flow, and the activities of things
are in constant change, and the causes work in infinite varieties; and there is
hardly anything which stands still. And consider this which is near to you,
this boundless abyss of the past and of the future in which all things
disappear. How then is he not a fool who is puffed up with such things or
plagued about them and makes himself miserable? For they vex him only for a
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Think of the universal substance, of which you are a very small portion; and of
universal time, of which a short and indivisible interval has been assigned to
you; and of that which is fixed by destiny, and how small a part of it you are.
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is a complex thought, then the waiting (for a favourable result) is much more time
consuming and painful for today’s world. When each Christian pray, “Let Thy
Kingdom come”, he is automatically telling that he has no control over his time
and future. It is here that we pause for retrospection. </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">This is so difficult for us to wait that Thomas Merton
wrote in one of his Gathsemane journals : “Suggested emendation in Lord’s
Prayer : Take out ‘Thy Kingdom come’ and substitute ‘Give us time!” . I wish to paraphrase it : Help us to wait till
your Kingdom come. <br /><br />Understanding</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">our inability
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“IF you can wait and not be tired of waiting” (quoted from the ‘IF’ poem) . This is just one expression from a poet about our inability to wait. <br /><br />I am sure, this enigma of time and waiting will continue to overrun every human who thinks about it.</span><span style="color: #444444;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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I was driving through Trichur countryside. Suddenly I noticed these sights. </div>
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There was absolute silence everywhere. The gentle light of the sun was filtering through the clouds and falling on the grain fields below. I was joyful. The stress driving have had on me was gone. </div>
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The ugly roads where polluting cars and motorbikes chased each other like mad dogs were missing. The filthy traffic blocks of Kerala roads were a far cry from these golden grain fields. </div>
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Prisoner in a car was free at last!…What a relief ! </div>
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Wished I had my off-road bicycle with me to explore these fields. Owner of these fields may not wish that from me. </div>
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<br /><u>Still if I dare to embrace my solitude and befriend my silence, I will come to know that voice</u>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Once I remember 4 of us trapped in an elephant country, up 3000 ft. high... All through the day we were cycling at our own speed. Then, as the night came and we couldn't cross-over those hills infected with elephants...( 'infected' is a wrong word to use on those hills. After all we have infected their country, their nation, their feeding points...) </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And when one gets trapped and when the night falls and is chill allover, one of the best things to do is to enjoy a bottle of beer ... <br />We 4 of us will never forget that oneness of getting stuck out there. Locals told us that elephants were crossing over the roads and it was dangerous to cycle through. <br />Pitch dark, our cell phones were also getting feeble with less and less charge. We had sent a message to our friends and they were going to come to pick us up ... but then, we had to wait and wait with some beer and cycle talks. </span><span style="color: #444444;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> There are times when we got to build our dreams all by our own hands,… by our own imagination and by our own strength… it will involve relocation, reformatting or a re-new-ing of our beliefs and value systems. We might have to do it simply because “it no longer fits” our days or our journey. All we have will be a little deep voice in us that constantly echo our passion and vision. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If we can live a life not to convince anyone and not to be in an ego-trap, …. if we can fail to fall victim of a social belief or to a world that looks to overtake us… then we can pedal our wheels of freedom to the golden sunset of our journey called life. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>“The diamond soul” </b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>first appeared in the market in 1885, discovered by a British industrialist John Kemp Starley. Compared to the efficiency and the strength the diamond geometry offer, this structure stands the best. Desperately, bicycle designers have tried to replace this simple structure of straight tubes with all sorts of shapes and sizes… with all sorts of nothingness and “simplicity”. 1000s of attempts were made to replace this diamond soul. But they haven’t been able to create a geometry that uses less and gives more than the diamond soul of a bicycle. Today, tube diameters may have increased and tubes that were once round may now be oval or tapered… tubes must have gone from steel to plastic to composite. But the frame (the soul) is a diamond. </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I took out myself for a short spin. Meteorological department of the government has it wrong. Today was the day the rains were to arrive. Sky looked blue and placid… and the traditional anglers were busy with their nets and boats. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Thank God, another year is through. The period from one monsoon to the adjacent summer makes one year of my life. People count it differently: some go with Malayalam Calendar and others with Georgian calendar… some with religious almanacs and other with seasons of the earth. I belong to the last group: seasons make up my life on earth. I love seasons. Manmade calendars are no good but for counting my age and knowing when to pay tax! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This year was terrific : I was really on the road spinning ultra-long distances. That was great and I found lots of courage to do it. People may ask why I have to push myself for Randonneuring (brevetting, as some calls it). As Divya Tate puts it: I want to be my own hero. There is a little hero hidden in each of us… I just wanted to discover where it was at this period in my life. I am a little hero in a nation of hero worshippers. Ya… me have never had a hero in my life and will never have one, but me and only me is the hero in me! This year offered some of the best personal results in brevetting…. And that was the discovery I call “terrific”. And there is no going back on it! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">If the rainmakers of Malabar have to wait, then some of the children of the sunshine can walk, jog and stretch a bit more into the season reserved for the rain, dark clouds and monsoon. I have found the beaches of Malabar astonishingly polluted with solid waste: everything from plastic water bottles to rotting vegetable filth. Why is it that society which so much harp on about cleanliness fails on the roads and beaches? As I spin slowly across the once clean beach-roads, my heart aches seeing</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> the filth littered around pedestrian walkways. I am silent about it. I wasn’t born at that time… still, fifty years ago, life must have been simple off plastic and the multitude of advertisements spoiling the calm beachfront sky. All that is gone: Too many sounds steal away my silence. <i>Nevertheless, can anyone disturb my darkness? </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I have a long way to go … and “Lord, just give me that courage to take one day at a time and spin my way to that eternal destiny You have in me” </span><br />
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<div>End of the year, what strikes my heart most is a quotation from an old big-boss of the company I worked with, the Coca-Cola. This quotation has become more relevant as I have reached 58 years in my journey. </div><div><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br />Reading this quotation drives fear, anger and some bitterness in me... </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> But make allowance for their doubting too;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> And treat those two impostors just the same;</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> And never breathe a word about your loss;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> If all men count with you, but none too much;</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">If you can fill the unforgiving minute</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,</span><br />
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physical fitness and the soundness of the mind are two integral elements in enjoying
a long endurance ride. The second factor
is the machine that the rider rides: your bicycle. The rider has to fit himself
fully to his cycle. This is largely compromised by even advanced riders. Many pick
a bike like the way they pick a ready-made brief and start using it absolutely without
bike-fitting. In an endurance ride, any compromise in bike-fitness will leads to
the slow development of fatigue. Moreover, as the ride progress, the fatigue
grows steadily and the comfort of the ride deteriorates. At one point, fatigue cries
out aloud, making it difficult for the rider to enjoy the ride. Then, it is a
struggle between the rider and his poor-fit bicycle to reach the destination. This is not all about an endurance ride. </span></span></div>
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made a tryst with this beautiful location to <u>see if it can be my next
cycling destination. </u>Just 102 Km from Calicut, it can be a beautiful place
where I can come and stay put for some time. <br /><br />( I wonder if the department of the Archeological
Survey of India will allow my cycle inside the fort! ) </span></span></b></div>
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1498, the Portuguese navigator Vasco De Gama set his eyes on Mapila Bay and
asked the then local king, Kolathiri Raja, if a settlement could be built. The
benevolent king was pleased to give him the prized spot of Mapila Bay. Later,
as Portugal forces weakened and as the colonial power rolled into the hands of
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the Dutch, and the British put together. The beauty of the structure is that, all the three
sides of the fort are surrounded by sea with long spectacular view of the
distant sea. The built up is huge and massive. The entire structure is made out
of local laterite stones. The lavish use of these stones will make one wonder
as to how these stones were hurled all the way to the mouth of the bay and
lifted up so high to put them in such a precise manner. Stones are dressed like teacakes cut and kept on a tea table. After more than 500 years of constant
exposure to sun, rain, and salt water, I cannot spot any major deterioration in
the masonry work. The ramparts are beaten by strong waves 24 X 7, and still it
holds perfect. I wonder what type of mortar was used to hold these stones
against the beating of the waves day and night ! </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>The restored flag mast stands at the exact location where
the original stood. Standing there and looking across the sea, I was feeling
the strong winds of the times caressing my face and whole …. When there wasn’t
any means of signaling to the distant sailors but the unfurling of flags in
different shapes, color, and size and the use of the cannon booms, these flag masts were lifelines. <br />What a time it must have been to stand miles
away in this rough, rocky sea on a fighting vessel to spot this fort at
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many times the colors might have been brought down signaling the change of
guard and many times the colors might have been dragged down to sign a violent
takeover. <br />Today, the mast is silent …
silent like the fort.</b> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: center;">These structures were built by the Dutch when they brought
in their famous cavalry </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: center;">to fight the
British. Think of the early 16</span><sup style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center;">th</sup><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: center;"> century when more than 200 Dutch
horses stood war-ready in these horse-stables. These walls must have listened
to the low and gentle neighing of those horses, having come a long way from
their Occidental native lands. What surprised me is the coolness and the comfort
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up in a strange road, </span><br /><span style="color: #444444;"> the locals </span><b><span style="color: #444444;">circling</span></b><span style="color: #444444;"> around you,</span><br /><span style="color: #444444;"> a </span><b><span style="color: #666666;">fLat </span></b><span style="color: #444444;">rubber,<br /> broken chain, </span><br /><span style="color: #444444;"> </span><b><span style="color: #666666;">oR</span></b><span style="color: #444444;"> running out of </span><b>food</b><span style="color: #444444;"> or
drink. </span><br /><span style="color: #444444;">Still, if there is </span><b><span style="color: #666666;">freedom</span></b><span style="color: #444444;"> and
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b style="color: #444444;">130 km</b><span style="color: #444444;"> of solo ride. </span><br /><span style="color: #444444;">Up a </span><span style="color: #666666;"><b>favorite hill</b></span><span style="color: #444444;">. </span></span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #999999;"><b>Maiden </b></span>century
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #666666;"><b>Lakkidi</b></span><span style="color: #444444;"> is famous for rains. </span><b>Lakkidi tops</b><span style="color: #444444;"> the world's register for the highest degree of rainfall.</span><br /><span style="color: #444444;">Through </span><b><span style="color: #999999;">a meandering spin</span></b><span style="color: #444444;"> from Calicut to
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #999999;">Every</span></b> time I <b><span style="color: #444444;">climb</span></b> these ghat-roads, I see this tree. It tells me to <b>wait</b> and look at her. <br />How can I wait? <br />Life is too <b><span style="color: #999999;">short</span></b> to <b>WAIT</b> ! </span></td></tr>
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<br /> </span><br /><span style="color: #444444;">Reached </span><b><span style="color: #666666;">Adivaram </span></b><span style="color: #444444;">drained of spirit for the rest of the journey.<br /><br />Now <b>stands </b>the fun..<br /> Acute </span><b>12.5</b> <span style="color: #444444;">kilometers of non-stop climb,</span><span style="color: #999999;"><b>9-hairpin </b><b>bends,</b></span><span style="color: #444444;"> </span><b>2300 ft</b><span style="color: #444444;">. elevation +<br />baptism in the rain. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #666666;">How can </span><b>there be</b><span style="color: #666666; font-weight: bold;"> life without </span><span style="color: #999999; font-weight: bold;">WORDS</span><span style="color: #666666; font-weight: bold;">?</span><br /><span style="color: #444444; font-weight: bold;">Life</span><span style="color: #666666;"> without words is a <b>poor life.</b></span><br /><span style="color: #666666; font-weight: bold;">"</span><span style="color: #666666;">I'll Share anything</span><span style="color: #666666; font-weight: bold;"> except This </span><span style="color: #666666;">COFFEE</span><span style="color: #666666; font-weight: bold;">..." cup says. </span><br /><span style="color: #666666;">i</span><span style="color: #666666; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">WILL share </span><span style="color: #666666;"><i>everything</i><b> for WORDS...</b><br /><b>because "</b></span><i><span style="color: #666666;">WORDS</span><b style="color: #666666;"> r </b><span style="color: #666666;">all</span><b><span style="color: #666666;"> i have to </span>take YOR heart<span style="color: #666666;"> </span><span style="color: #999999;">Away</span></b></i><b style="color: #666666;">"</b><br /><span style="color: #666666; font-weight: bold;"> </span></span><br />
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