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If you are worried of too much AI (or scams 🤣) then let me share about "Decoy Font" 😊 here 

shubha-dinam starts with इन्द्रधनुः

आदिगुरु-शंकराचार्य-जयंती starts with a 🌞 rising sun rainbow 🌈

इन्द्रधनुः

just yesterday (in online book reading session) we looked at Page 19 (under Physics section) of the "Science in Sanskrit" book which mentions the following

सूर्यस्य विविधवर्णाः पवनेन विघट्टिताः कराः साभ्रे ।
 वियति धनुःसंस्थाना ये दृश्यन्ते तदिन्द्रधनुः ।। ३५.०१ ।।

- बृहत्संहिता (अध्यायः ३५)

hindu student association - painting

 yesterday, i was fortunate to be part of hindu student association at one of the PDSB schools .. and in few minutes i got to interact with some 15-20 (elementary) students (all girls!) i tried storytelling :-)

positive/creative way of glorifying someone's strengths while hiding their shortcomings ..

beauty in diversity

 

simple solution?

 

A grocery store nearby had issue of many pigeons entering their premises and roaming around inside [without generating any revenue/sales :) ] .. pigeons had got smart to tailgate genuine shoppers and learned to use the automatic open/close doors .. it seems, the owners/managers have found a very cost effective (simple and no-tech!) solution to their problem .. they placed a make/believe eagle "figurine" just at the entrance which might scare the intruding friendly birds with its piercing eyes .. I want to find out about the effectiveness/results ..

guess

 where is this?

wow

good music

 by few by the lake/river in port credit

and then i picked up the following from their bucket :-)

if you want a cake ...

Attempt to draw one with https://www.autodraw.com/

... then just ask for it!

Universe will always answer every prayer :)

It will bring to you what you want ... just keep in mind few points
- it knows when the time is best
- it knows what is the best flavor and healthy (better) alternative
- it sometimes present you with not the cake but the ingredients to make one for yourself (and the recipe as well - in some case, the recipe will be unfolded as you go along with following the steps) :D

[Every month, I try to post one blog entry on 1st ... and today it is already 2nd of Nov 2022 .. since, I was unable to come up with anything .. I thought - why don't I scroll through the long list of DRAFTs I have saved for a while .. and this is what I found - seemed it was saved in Aug 2012 - makes the CAKE more than 10 years old !]

garbaa

 grateful to be able to bring together people for "ON Culture Days" garbaa :-) www.garbaa.ml

155

 got to try out a little 'crazy' idea had in mind ... 155 Canada Day celebration with some kind of art/craft (made with 41 flags!) - www.one55.ga

yay!! i succeed ... wait! what? .. in getting rejected :-) [RT-1]

i just heard about this - Rejection Therapy .. and i wanted to try it out myself :-) 

during my morning run today - i came across this commercial vehicle - with which this guy was improving the running track in nearby public school .. and i asked him if i can drive it? of course, i succeeded in getting outright 'rejection' .. then i tried to convince him to at least allow me to take my picture on the 'steering' wheel .. and yet he did not budge .. i guess, he might have - but his friend (or boss?) chatting with him was more reluctant (or following their process/rules - good thing, in a way)

finally - i could at least get my 'selfie' with them .. 

where is me? - well .., edited and not visible :-)

similar/different? how/why?

 

I recently came across a posted - showing leaves from a single tree and posing interesting questions about several leaves .. how are they similar? how are they different? why are they similar? why are they different? ... http://www.khaydock.com/Art/Rain%20tree%20poster%20english.pdf

and then while my daily 2km run/walk today (day 20 of 100 - hdor.com) i noticed a bunch of leaves fallen from one tree .. thought of having some pics of my own :-)

0 = ∞

 

10 November 2020 - 8:08 am
Lake Ontario in Port Credit

creative use of pizza box/cardboard

was felt joy to see usual cardboard for pizza delivery being put to creative use as shown below - has anyone else tried/seen such good example(s)?

balloon story ...

I do not recall where/when I heard the story - I think more people should know and put it in practice in whatever ways they can in their given situation :-)

A group of kids were put together in a room with as many balloons - each kid's name was put up on one balloon - they were asked to find their "own" balloon - while they frantically tried to be "the first" they realized it was not easy - in fact, some balloons popped (blew off) - and hardly one or two might have found their own 'named' balloon after several minutes.

The same 'experiment' was repeated - but this time with little different set of 'instructions' - they were asked to pair up the balloon with the child whose name was on it (it was not competition anymore - rather collaboration) - the group soon realized it was much more calm environment (less anxiety) and many rightful owners found their 'own' balloon in comparatively less time.

i guess in life too - running blindly after my own happiness is more stressful and less effective/rewarding than even making a humble attempt to pair up someone with their joy

[I found one version here - https://www.slideshare.net/RishibhaKurichh/balloons-in-a-room]

sources of happiness

lot of things bring joy ..

learning and creating are two important (inter-connected as well?) activities that do make me feel happier :-)

just recently - got to use https://www.autodraw.com/ for coming up with some quick illustrations .. though i had heard about it earlier - probably spent more time just now - see one sample below

what are you creating/learning ?? :-)

Happy Mother's Day!

Saw this nice picture 'Mother is beyond Infinity!' at https://thimble.webmaker.org/p/l7i5/ (thanks to #teachtheweb) - so nicely applies to a Sanskrit 'verse'

 या देवी सर्व भूतेषु मातृ रूपेण संस्थिता नमस्तस्यै नमस्तस्यै नमस्तस्यै नमो नमः || 

Transliteration (in Roman Script): yA devi sarva bhuteshu matru rupeN sansthita namastasyai namastasyai namastasyai namo namah

Meaning: The divinity that is present in every being in the form of 'mother', I bow to her, I bow to her, I bow to her again & again.
   

messing around with maps - #teachtheweb

I tried to show my RUNs so far on map :)

still few questions about popcornmaker to be figured out - How to restrict the length as desired? - let's see when i learn to #teachtheweb :) PS: Don't worry - video is not that long - it is just a minute long :)

learning to #teachtheweb :)

Below is my attempt to create video with mozilla PopcornMaker for #teachtheweb :)

Follow Your Heart ... NOW!!!

(Don’t wait for someone to aim a gun point-blank at you!)

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

- Henry David Thoreau

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

- Henry David Thoreau

My name is Marcos Sampayo. I was born in a middle class family in Goa as an ‘ordinary’ boy but I had so many dreams and fascinations … Among many other things, one thing that I liked, as many children do, was to fly! But my story is different … I see the birds flying in the sky and I wanted to be up there with them. I hear the roaring noise of an airplane hovering in the sky and I rushed out (even straight from the bath-tub, at times) to the balcony just to have a glimpse of it … The years went by but my passion about flying did not die … I invariably stretch my gaze at the blue sky whenever I hear the familiar sound of flying objects…

As I grew up, the only thing that ‘flew’ was time! … I had to park my dream ‘in some corner of my heart’ and move on … I was probably waiting for ‘someday’ when I will follow my dream. I still subscribe to aero-sport magazines but that is the only thing I did for my ‘love’.

I completed my regular education and joined my family owned grocery shop. I was making decent earning and even started growing my dad’s business. As my father neared the retirement phase, I took complete charge of our business and I am engrossed completely in the routine.

One day, my life took a sudden turn! It was a normal day, like any other so far … Customers were pouring in the store at regular pace in the morning … then the rush dropped as the sun rose above the head … I heard a big roar of an airplane and since there were not many people in the store who needed attention, I stepped out and gazed at the airplane … As the aircraft gets lost in the distant clouds, I returned back to the counter with a ‘sigh’ and started attending to the few new shoppers. Suddenly, there is a stranger who enters the shop and changes everything. He takes out a pistol from nowhere, fires a shot in the air and frightens everyone outside the shop before he rushes right to the counter. He then aims the pistol at me and threatens to kill me if I do not give him all the cash. I am frightened like never before and in no time emptied the cash drawer into the armed robber’s bag and begged to leave me alive. The seasoned robber then thinks of further frightening me and said ‘I still want to kill you! So, lie down on the floor’. Not left with any other choice, I do as instructed … but to my surprise, I find out that when the robber pulls the trigger, I am not hurt at all – there was no more bullet in the gun! The robber runs out of the store laughing at my plight – I was still trying to grasp my breath.

This event ruined me – I was frightened to death during the few minutes that keeps flashing in front of my eyes – even after I was released unhurt physically. I spent the next week in isolation. The introspection resulted into a reinvented Marcos! I decided to make the most from this ‘gift of life’. I did not bother at all about the financial loss I incurred … instead, I took the ‘boldest’ decision of my life! I sold off our shop and joined a flying club. I studied hard to become a certified ‘Hang-Glider’ Pilot. I then set up my own adventure tourism boutique firm (vôo duplo de asa delta) in Goa and not only live my ‘passion’ but I make a decent living out of it (‘more than what I would be making from my boring shop’ – as I likes to emphasize)!

While taking the tourists from across the globe up in the clouds, I always share my story of life – and invariably poses a thought provoking question to everyone – “Will it take some insane to aim a pistol point blank at you?? Please DO NOT wait for a single day. You may not be as lucky as I was – FOLLOW YOUR HEART, NOW!”

So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains

And we never even know we have the key.

- Lyrics from Already Gone, performed by the Eagles for their 1974 On the Border album