Mind Without Fear

Where the mind is without fear
and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free,
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come from the depth of truth
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection,
Into the heaven of freedom, my Father,
Let my country awake.

(Gitanjali 'Song Offerings' 1912, Nobel Prize winning collection of poems)
by Rabindranath Tagore 1861 - 1941

it's in our hands

Into India

i leave tomorrow evening for india and will be there for nearly a month. it's a very welcome vacation and i am looking forward to immersing myself in the experience and improving my photography skills.

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it has been a tough week. i suffered a great personal loss, not through death but deception. i've been robbed of my "reality". so the respite in india is doubly welcomed. i hope to come back invigorated!

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i am posting an amazing poem i uncovered in my research of india. it was written by Tagore and is part of a collection that won him the Nobel Prize in literature in 1913. it stuck a chord with me in today's political environment. our country's struggle doesn't have the drama of india's fight for independence, but it is still important that we fight for what is right. i early voted and hope you will vote too. i hope to find that everyone unhappy with the deception and incompetence of the current regime in the US will kick their asses out! get out and vote!!!

cheers!