Passing Clouds

Passing Clouds

 

 

  

Sparrows!

Today is World Sparrow Day. There are very few places in Bangalore where you can see sparrows. One such place is Richards Square, adjacent to Russell Market. It has an open rectangular courtyard with shops on three sides selling kitchenware, old furniture and other stuff. The shopkeepers place bowls of water and sprinkle grains to feed the sparrows. Today being World Sparrow Day, I went there to see my feathered friends and was not disappointed. I stood there for some time, watching the sparrows hop around and listening to their chirps. Thanks to the shopkeepers of Richards Square and people like them, we still have sparrows around us!

 

The Road Not Taken

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.

The Road Not Taken

by Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I marked the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

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