Sense of Place
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The recent news about Houston bats freezing to death in the recent Texas snow storm, reminded me when I too was spellbound by their daily twilight callisthenics under the city’s Waugh Bridge. According to Diana Foss, a Texas Parks and Wildlife Urban Wildlife Biologist as told the Houston Chronicle that ‘nearly 2000 Mexican free-tailed bats… Read more
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‘Spring is too busy, too full of itself, too much like a 20-year-old to be the best time for reflection, re-grouping, and starting fresh.For that you need December. You need to have lived through the mindless biological imperatives of your life (to bud, and flower, and show off) before you can see that a landscape… Read more
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Places along with people remain etched in memory to resurface at opportune moments. Flipping through my Oman File, 1998, I came across unused notes on Nizwa, the mountainous stronghold in heart of Oman. The notes had been for a feature on ‘Silver jewellery of Oman’ for Khaleej Times WEEKEND (weekly magazine). I met with private… Read more
Journies of change 