Clarity

A crystal clear pond reflecting the trees surrounding it and the sky above it; like a mirror it reflects the terrestrial world we live in, masking the beauty that lies beneath. A pebble crashes against its glass-like surface, creating perfectly circular waves that move outward and decrease in amplitude as they spread to cover the entire surface captured by the observer's field of vision. In the rare mind that thinks with complete clarity, the disturbance of the pebble, is like a thought that permeates an entire field of thinking. Intense and piercing in the beginning; vast and mellowed as the disturbance is absorbed. As the mind ponders focused complexity, it eventually learns to accept it and allows it to affect everything else within that field of thought. Wisdom results and eventually, a reversion to clarity. Too many pebbles and no time to revert...this is what beginning a semester with a severe bout of jet lag feels like.

I just got back from Bombay and Goa, India where I met Bollywood movie stars and Sai Baba of Shirdi, and you don't get any pictures..haha!