The Whole World is Garden

“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”– 

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Dreamy Pines – A Painting

Study the teachings of the pine tree, the bamboo, and the plum blossom. The pine is evergreen, firmly rooted, and venerable. The bamboo is strong, resilient, unbreakable. The plum blossom is hardy, fragrant, and elegant.”

Morihei Ueshiba

9 Must Read Books

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader”~

1. The World As I See It by Albert Einstein

2. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

3. The Art of War by Sun Tzu

4. The Psychology Of Money

5. The Great Mental Models

6. The 48 Laws of Power

7. The Daily Stoic

8. Atomic habits

9. Deep Work

Which books will you add?

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install a lovely bookshelf on the wall.” – 

Roald Dahl

Passionate – Paintings

Do it with passion or not at all … “

Unfinished – A Painting

May be I could have done something else with this art, but then I thought to abandon it just like this, and sign it ‘roksanaamelia’ with a charcoal.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.
-Leonardo da Vinci


#JianBirdGallery❄️

Travel

Try to travel, otherwise
you may become racist,
and you may end up believing
that your skin is the only one
to be right,
that your language
is the most romantic
and that you were the first
to be the first.

Travel,
because if you don’t travel then
your thoughts won’t be strengthened,
won’t get filled with ideas.
Your dreams will be born with fragile legs and then you end up believing in tv-shows, and in those who invent enemies
that fit perfectly with your nightmares
to make you live in terror.

Travel,
because travel teaches
to say good morning to everyone
regardless of which sun we come from.

Travel,
because travel teaches
to say goodnight to everyone
regardless of the darkness
that we carry inside.

Travel,
because traveling teaches to resist,
not to depend,
to accept others, not just for who they are
but also for what they can never be.
To know what we are capable of,
to feel part of a family
beyond borders,
beyond traditions and culture.
Traveling teaches us to be beyond.

Travel,
otherwise you end up believing
that you are made only for a panorama
and instead inside you
there are wonderful landscapes
still to visit.

Gio_Evan, poet and songwriter.
Translated from Italian.

———

July, 2021
Golden Gate Bridge
San Francisco, USA

Fear nothing, Travel more

Coffee break

Long long time ago,

This very special coffee time,
with a dear friend.

We had been planning to go to North End for having coffee-break over there, specially Fahmi always wanted to take me there, specially for the coffee-aroma that she loves so much, but we never could manage time, but suddenly, on that day, we just decided to go there! And it was great time with her, with all the enlightening things she always share! And it was her treat! 😊

Happy and grateful that we could get this coffee time together……

Life is beautiful!

Coffee and friends make the perfect blend. 

Anonymous

The Wooden Bridge

This bridge will only take you halfway there

To those mysterious lands you long to see

Shel Silverstein
The wooden bridge. We went there to observe this bridge. Its not so stable, yet people are passing through it randomly, and we even saw some motorbikes were running so fast. They are not scared. But we were scared, thought it will break anytime. 
We loved the scenery though.  The river water was not so deep. The boats are sailing. People are doing their jobs upon the river bank. Ahh! What a beautiful breeze by the bank of this river Korotoa. 

#roksanatales

Stillness

I think I have learnt something of the value of stillness. I don’t fret so much; I laugh at myself more often; I don’t laugh at others. I live life at my own pace. Like a banyan tree. Is this wisdom, or is it just old age?”

Ruskin BondA Book of Simple Living: Brief Notes from the Hills

Dear, Rest at Ease

Restless dragonfly, resting at ease. I found this beauty while travelling to an unknown place. It was afternoon, quite quiet time around, and I was walking beside an old wall. Suddenly I saw this one hanging on a branch of a creeper . I went closer to it. It didn’t move a bit.

Dear dragonfly, rest at ease and show me your beauty ....

Dear dragonfly, life is made perfect in you lovely….

Dear dragonfly, a beauty

A Reflection of You

is nothing but a reflection of me ….

A reflection of you-
A love that spans the miles.

A reflection of you-
The steady noonday sunbeams.

A reflection of you-
The unfolding of words.

A reflection of you-
A plain-spoken philosophy.

A reflection of you-
An ambient naturalism.

A reflection of you-
A friend, most protective.

A reflection of you-
A promise of a lifetime happiness.

A reflection of you-
A flash of lightening in darkness.

A reflection of you-
The soft caress closeness.

A reflection of you-
Too tempting and warm.

A reflection of you-
Something nice about something wrong.

A reflection of you-
A seamless flowing movement.

A reflection of you-
The beating to joyful rhythms.

A reflection of you-
An endless age, inside and out.

A reflection of you-
Thus the windows to my heart.

A reflection of you-
A pleasing proportionality.

A reflection of you-
The threads of my antic tapestry.

A reflection of you-
The reflective silence.

A reflection of you-
Is the mirror of a beautiful reflection?

A reflection of you-
Is nothing but a reflection of me.

Black n White

Sometimes we’re just too black and white in our thinking instead of acknowledging all the other colors of life. The world can’t always be neatly parceled up in the way that some of our questions about life might imply. That’s why, instead of asking for ‘answers’ of an question, we should just ask for’ impressions’~

Sometimes, the shades of gray is so much WoW♥

I’d never let you go……
“Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that color never can”
Come, little leaves,” said the Wind one day, “Come to the meadows with me and play.
Put on your dresses of red and gold;
For Summer is past, and the days grow cold.”

~George Cooper
If I could talk to my younger self, I would just say that the path to great things is filled with a lot of stumbles, suffering, and challenges along the way. But if you have the right attitude and know that hard times will pass – and you get up each time – you will reach your destination.
~ Jonny Kim
Trees are poems
that the earth writes upon the sky!”

Kahlil Gibran
Everything is connected”
“Come, let us have some tea and
continue to talk about happy things” 
“It’s not what you have on the outside that glitters in light,
it’s what you have on the inside that shines in the dark.”

― Anthony Liccione
You can be in love with solitude;
it won’t last long!
You can be in love with crowds;
it won’t last long!””
চিত্র!
You don’t have to know where you’re going to get
exactly where you need to go”…..
How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.”
– John Burroughs
There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky.”
– Dejan Stojanovic
You can be in love with solitude;
it won’t last long!
You can be in love with crowds;
it won’t last long!””
“Even when your life is full of color, you still need to be reminded that things come in black and white.”

ჱܓჱܓ
জল বাড়ে মায়া বাড়ে,
নিয়তির খেলা
এক শ্রাবণে নৌওকো ভাসে
বিরহে একেলা!
মেঘে মেঘে এতো বেলা
হেসে খেলে অবহেলায়
অজানারী আহবানে
চলছে কেমন খেলা!

কি শুনাইলা কি বুঝাইলা
জড়াইলা কি মায়াতে!”
পাতায় পাতায় গল্প-গাঁথা! 
চিত্রকর! ♥
আলোকিত আমি তোমার আলোকরশ্মিতে! ♥

Painter, Creator ♥
I am enlightened by your light! 

There’s so much grey to every story – nothing is so black and white!”

Glorifying, Each Day

Each day,
Its more precious,
As I celebrate my life with you,
With a simple word, with heart felt appreciation,
With rainbow tears in eyes, with gratitude, with music,
With song, with a heart to let go, with loving acceptance
With graceful smile, with love light n warmth of hearts within.

Its more beautiful day,
Each moment of the each beautiful day.

Lonely Bird/ একলা পাখি

A little bird, all alone;
Thinking
How to find
A home of its soul.

♥
একটি ছোট পাখি, একা;
ভাবছে বসে,
কিভাবে পাবে
তার আত্মার একটি বাড়ি! ♥

UspiEd DwON

Accept life’s ups and down.
Lovingly live it ….

Cna Yuo Raed Tihs?

I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno’t mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!
– Collected

Tihs is raelly gerat:)
And asboltutely crroect~

ItnersetniG~

What is actually important??
Spelling is no matter, sometimes to express what you want to say.
Its just okay.
Cause~
Its matter how we look at things,
No matter how hard to understand, sometimes.

Make it easy friends for all to understand you.
What you think about and thank about, you bring about!
Make it a happy day today for yourself and all around you!!!

‘It’s not just polite to let people say what they wish, it’s seductive. The best gift you can give is your attention’. ~Chris Matthews sharing

Accept life’s ups and down.
Lovingly live it upside down:)

♥Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ♥

Travelling Alone is Therapy

Let nothing and no one stop me…..

All on my own, I made my way; 

Through the dark of night and bright of day,

Dreams are there for me in that shining evening ray.

Sometimes I feel as if I had spent my whole life dreaming…. dreaming to fall and wait for the moment when I would hit the water all alone….alone on a lonely beach.

Though, in the midst of such vastness, it wouldn’t be possible for me to view such beauty and serenity all by myself…

I’m not meant to be alone…

I don’t want to be alone….

I can’t be so self-centered….

I’m not made in this way.

But you know, sometimes though, you need to be alone, all by yourself.

When you’re by yourself, you’re forced to think.

Travelling alone, I believe, is like medication.

Because it makes u test yourself in ways you never thought possible.

Well I dream to travel alone & travelling alone is one of my precious dreams.

Dreams are there to unlock imagination.

Right?

I believe where there’s a true and honest dream, there’s always a way.

I find travelling an opportunity not to relax;

But also a means to mingle freely with co-travelers.

Besides, the feeling of freedom makes it easier for one to interact with people from all walks of life.

And I love people and places.

In the little space of my daily life, in which I make and re-make relationships with everyone that I encounter and whom I find my dearests, I love to use a little adventurous mode.

It’s in my nature: Adventurous.

But solo trip to some place had been a mere dream only.

Or it must be better to admit that I had only loved to dream about it.

Never had I made it my long-cherished dream the way I dream of it now.

Now, as the days pass, I begin to embrace uncertainty. I realize that it’s from venturing into the unknown that I learn more what it means to be human and above all, what it means to be free.

Fragility is what I think I’m…..very sensitive to life’s little things.

At times it breaks you from inside.

Travelling alone would definitely teach me to overcome many unnecessary emotions.

Travelling alone would give me the chance to do things that I never thought I could; that I could completely rely on myself for everything.

I’m a nature-lover.

I prefer wilderness. Or should I say I love Travelling for the travelling’s’ sake.

You know, life can be exciting EN ROUTE anyway you look at it.

Through travelling,

You learn that people, in general, are helpful and that come along your journey.

You meet people from all around the world, some of whom may become life-long friends.

Through travelling,

You become a better, more self-reliant person.

You impact the lives of those you encounter in your journey in a positive way.

All we have to do is to learn by being introspective, by creating and discovering new enchanted emotional space rather than physical space.

I know, as a woman travelling alone, I would face issues that a man wouldn’t. But I think I’m unafraid. Because I’m a true heart. I won’t do wrongs to anyone. I don’t want to hurt even. I know I’ve my own mountains to climb. I have to face issues that might come along my paths. But those are for me only a literal mountain. Climbing Real Mountain is yet to come in my life, and it’ll only come forward if I start travelling alone.

You know I love challenges too.

Travelling is a way of life and travelling alone needs more attitudes towards embracing the anticipation of the UNKNOWN.

So here I’m on a journey to the destination of my own dream.

Let nothing and no one stop me.

Bon Voyage!!

Philosophy For a Happy Life

My philosophy for a happy life | Sam Berns

  1. Be OK with what you ultimately can’t do! Because there is so much you CAN do!
  2. Surround yourself with  people you want to be around!
  3. Keep moving forward!
  4. Never miss a party if you can help it!<3

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The Simple Life

Business-and-Fish

There was once a businessman who was sitting by the beach in a small village.

As he sat, he saw a fisherman rowing a small boat towards the shore having caught quite few big fish.

The businessman was impressed and asked the fisherman, “How long does it take you to catch so many fish?”

The fisherman replied, “Oh, just a short while.”

“Then why don’t you stay longer at sea and catch even more?” The businessman was astonished.

“This is enough to feed my whole family,” the fisherman said.

The businessman then asked, “So, what do you do for the rest of the day?”

The fisherman replied, “Well, I usually wake up early in the morning, go out to sea and catch a few fish, then go back and play with my kids. In the afternoon, I take a nap with my wife, and evening comes, I join my buddies in the village for a drink — we play guitar, sing and dance throughout the night.”

The businessman offered a suggestion to the fisherman.

“I am a PhD in business management. I could help you to become a more successful person. From now on, you should spend more time at sea and try to catch as many fish as possible. When you have saved enough money, you could buy a bigger boat and catch even more fish. Soon you will be able to afford to buy more boats, set up your own company, your own production plant for canned food and distribution network. By then, you will have moved out of this village and to Sao Paulo, where you can set up HQ to manage your other branches.”

The fisherman continued, “And after that?”

The businessman laughed heartily, “After that, you can live like a king in your own house, and when the time is right, you can go public and float your shares in the Stock Exchange, and you will be rich.”

The fisherman asked, “And after that?”

The businessman said, “After that, you can finally retire, you can move to a house by the fishing village, wake up early in the morning, catch a few fish, then return home to play with kids, have a nice afternoon nap with your wife, and when evening comes, you can join your buddies for a drink, play the guitar, sing and dance throughout the night!”

The fisherman was puzzled, “Isn’t that what I am doing now?”

A Story of “The Fisherman and The Businessman“~

Never to get too busy for the people you love and always make time for the things you love doing.

Never get caught in the trap of being too busy for yourself and the ones you love.””~