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FYI:

I wasn't sure if you were aware of my tumblr account or not. Do visit it for all my latest news story clippings, digital goodies and photos. 

http://digitalbin.tumblr.com/

Sometimes it's just easier to share than explain! :)

PHOTO: Big Sur

UPDATE: Immersed.

I will let you cerebral-gifted out of boxers deconstruct the coded post. I know you will find meaning in this image. I am immersed.

This blog will be coming to end soon. Worry not, I will be blogging at a new address. Will give you a full update with new locale in the next month. Please stay tuned. :)

Lazy Hazy Sunsets

One more reason to take Monday off. Happy Belated 4th.

Quick Post: Hiatus

Don't be alarmed. After a month long sabbatical from the wee ol blog you might see some technical difficulties. I have been juggling a few new projects and reconfigured everything!

It will be a few weeks till everything runs like the well oiled machine it was. I think? New Podcast, Video, and Photostream.

In the mean time check out Sofia Coppola's trailer of her upcoming film Somewhere.

Poem #17: "You Are Me"

You Are Me

by  Thich Naht Hahn

You are me and I am you. 


It is obvious that we are inter-are. 


You cultivate the flower in 
yourself so that I will be beautiful.


I transform the garbage in myself so 
that you do not have to suffer.


I support you

you support me. 


I am here to bring you peace 


you are here to bring me joy.

This year the trustee blog is going to partake in the feast of words.  “For the Love of Poetry” is a month long series here on Incurable Optimist  in observance of National Poetry Month. The week of April 25 through April 30^th will be reserved for new poets. If you are interested in submitting an original poem, haiku, or even a sonnet stay tuned for guidelines here. You can also e-mail me if you should have any questions. I hope you enjoy 30 days of “For the Love of Poetry” on the rejuvenated Incurable Optimist formerly known as www.faridarafique.com. If you have missed any previous entries please visit “For the Love of Poetry”.

For more information on this series visit, “In the Observance of National Poetry Month A New Series is Born”.

Poem #16: "Kindness"

Kindness

by Naomi Shihab Nye


Before you know what kindness really is
you must lose things,
feel the future dissolve in a moment
like salt in a weakened broth.
What you held in your hand,
what you counted and carefully saved,
all this must go so you know
how desolate the landscape can be
between the regions of kindness.
How you ride and ride
thinking the bus will never stop,
the passengers eating maize and chicken
will stare out the window forever.

Before you learn the tender gravity of kindness,
you must travel where the Indian in a white poncho
lies dead by the side of the road.
You must see how this could be you,
how he too was someone
who journeyed through the night with plans

and the simple breath that kept him alive.

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside,
you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing. 
You must wake up with sorrow.
You must speak to it till your voice
catches the thread of all sorrows

and you see the size of the cloth.

Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore,
only kindness that ties your shoes
and sends you out into the day to mail letters and

     purchase bread,

only kindness that raises its head
from the crowd of the world to say
it is I you have been looking for,
and then goes with you every where

like a shadow or a friend.

This year the trustee blog is going to partake in the feast of words.  “For the Love of Poetry” is a month long series here on Incurable Optimist  in observance of National Poetry Month. The week of April 25 through April 30^th will be reserved for new poets. If you are interested in submitting an original poem, haiku, or even a sonnet stay tuned for guidelines here. You can also e-mail me if you should have any questions. I hope you enjoy 30 days of “For the Love of Poetry” on the rejuvenated Incurable Optimist formerly known as www.faridarafique.com. If you have missed any previous entries please visit “For the Love of Poetry”.

For more information on this series visit, “In the Observance of National Poetry Month A New Series is Born”.

Quick Note:

VIA The Big Picture: Boston.com: Iceland's disruptive volcano

via www.boston. com

IMAGES FROM BOSTON.COM

"Today, British civil aviation authorities ordered the country's airspace closed as of noon, due to a cloud of ash drifting from the erupting Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland. The volcano has erupted for the second time in less than a month, melting ice, shooting smoke and steam into the air and forcing hundreds of people to flee rising floodwaters. The volcanic ash has forced the cancellation of many flights and disrupted air traffic across northern Europe, stranding thousands of passengers. Collected here are photos of the most recent eruption, and of last month's eruptions, which were from the same volcano, just several miles further east."

VIEW 17 PHOTOS OF THE VOLCANO AT BOSTON.COM BIG PICTURE PHOTO GALLERY: HERE

Poem #15: "Let These Be Your Desires"

Let These Be Your desires

by Khalil Gibran

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself
But if your love and must needs have desires,
Let these be your desires:

To melt and be like a running brook
That sings its melody to the night.
To know the pain of too much tenderness.
To be wounded by your own understanding of love;
And to bleed willingly and joyfully.
To wake at dawn with a winged heart
And give thanks for another day of loving;
To rest at the noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy;
To return home at eventide with gratitude;
And then to sleep with a prayer
For the beloved in your heart
And a song of praise upon your lips.

This year the trustee blog is going to partake in the feast of words.  “For the Love of Poetry” is a month long series here on Incurable Optimist  in observance of National Poetry Month. The week of April 25 through April 30^th will be reserved for new poets. If you are interested in submitting an original poem, haiku, or even a sonnet stay tuned for guidelines here. You can also e-mail me if you should have any questions. I hope you enjoy 30 days of “For the Love of Poetry” on the rejuvenated Incurable Optimist formerly known as www.faridarafique.com. If you have missed any previous entries please visit “For the Love of Poetry”.

For more information on this series visit, “In the Observance of National Poetry Month A New Series is Born”.