There is money to be made in the market place, but under the cherry tree there is rest.

There are two kinds of authors - subjective and objective. Introverts are more inward looking.

I mostly write short stories. They are best written in a continuous creative process. You have a feel of immediacy.

How evanescent those loves and friendships seem at this distance in time…We move on, make new attachments. We grow old. But sometimes, we hanker for old friendships, the old loves. Sometimes I wish I was young again. Or that I could travel back in time and pick up the threads. Absent so long, I may have stopped loving you, friends; but I will never stop loving the Day I loved you.

Hinduism comes closest to being a nature religion. Rivers, rocks, trees, plants, animals, and birds all play their part, both in mythology and everyday worship. This harmony is most evident in remote places like this, and I hope it does not loose its unique character in the ruthless urban advance.

To return to my own trees, I went among them often, acknowledging their presence with a touch of my hand against their trunks.

I have come to believe that the best kind of walk, or journey, is the one in which you have no particular destination when you set out.