Delhi For Chennai, Cuddalore, Nellore, ... our brothers and sisters in south

If you see this post. Here is what you need to do. ‪#‎Chennai‬ ‪#‎Cuddalore‬ ‪#‎Nellore‬, ‪#‎DelhiNCRStandsByChennai‬, ‪#‎ChennaiRains‬,
1. Open the following link in one of the tab

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2. Are you are in Delhi NCR ? If yes check out section DELHI_NCR below
3. Do you you know any credible Volunteer in Bangalore or yourself a volunteer? If yes checkout section BANGALORE below
4. Do you you know any credible Volunteer in Chennai or yourself a volunteer? If yes checkout section CHENNAI below
5. Do you you know any credible Volunteer in Cuddalore or yourself a volunteer? If yes checkout section CUDDALORE below
6. Do you you know any credible Volunteer in NELLORE or yourself a volunteer? If yes checkout section NELLORE below
7. Regardless of the response of all the above share this/bump in your circle
DELHI_NCR
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The above link points to a spread sheet.
* In the sheet titled "Collection Point" we have listed out the area and the volunteer catering to that area. Get in touch with them regarding providing relief material help.
*The sheet titled "Relief Matrix" has the list of all the materials we are looking for. Please stick to the list.
*If your area is not listed in the matrix and would like to volunteer please add your area under "Collection Point" provide your name under "Coordinator" and your mobile no. under "Phone Number". We will get in touch with you.
* Checkout the sheet titled courier quotes. If you know anyone who can provide great quotes in air freight and beat the ones already listed please add them and under "Reference Contact" and "Reference Name" add your mobile no, and name. We will revert back to you.
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BANGALORE.
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Bangalore is an important staging point of our operation given that Chennai is incapacitated you can help us by
*You must have opened the link of the spread sheet in a new tab. If not please do
* If you personally have come to know of volunteer who is shipping materials to Chennai, Cuddalore, Nellore from Bangalore then go to the sheet titled "Bangalore", provide the contact details of name, number, handles, address as available and under "Comments" mention the place the volunteer is serving for instance if he providing relief to Chennai then under "Comments" mention "Serving Chennai"
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CHENNAI
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*The list of materials we are sending is captured in the sheet titled "Relief Matrix". If you find a material missing in the list please add it to the row after the last row and under the "Comments" column of the corresponding row mention the location as "For Chennai"
*After you update the sheet please go to the comment section under this discussion and add an update as to what detail you had updated. This will enable us to respond effectively
CUDDALORE
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* If you personally have come to know of volunteer or are a volunteer who is not in the sheet titled "Cuddalore", provide the contact details of name, number, handles, address as available and under "Comments" mention the place the volunteer is serving for instance if he providing relief to RV Nagar then under "Comments" mention "Serving RV Nagar"
*The list of materials we are sending is captured in the sheet titled "Relief Matrix". If you find a material missing in the list please add it to the row after the last row and under the "Comments" column of the corresponding row mention the location as "For Cuddalore"
*After you update the sheet please go to the comment section under this discussion and add an update as to what detail you had updated. This will enable us to respond effectively
NELLORE
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* If you personally have come to know of volunteer or are a volunteer who is not in the sheet titled "Nellore", provide the contact details of name, number, handles, address as available and under "Comments" mention the place the volunteer is serving for instance if he providing relief to Katta Road then under "Comments" mention "Serving Katta Road"
*The list of materials we are sending is captured in the sheet titled "Relief Matrix". If you find a material missing in the list please add it to the row after the last row and under the "Comments" column of the corresponding row mention the location as "For Nellore".
*After you update the sheet please go to the comment section under this discussion and add an update as to what detail you had updated. This will enable us to respond effectively
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Volunteer Data Chennai, Cuddalore and Nellore - Google Sheets

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Letting Go

Letting go is the journey inward. Letting go the form of understanding one has acquired to enter the eye of the eagle hovering miles above surveying the terrain revealing the aspect of ourselves that is never questioned. The aspect can be regarded as the unconscious as it goes about animating the world without any particular purpose or interest. It is scary to begin with as it is not yet mastered. There is a peculiar tendency of the conscious mind that is relatively peaceful only when it can lord over that it does not understand. It may not be very keen to even understand and would prefer bypassing the bit about understanding and jump straight to the seat with the joy stick. Letting go is to walk the walk, to face what one is presented with and not walking away, accepting it and responding to it. Being the student of ones’ unconscious is what can be termed as spirituality. As a student learns, not to usurp the rank or stature of the master but not being the servant either. As one learns about what gets revealed the boundaries of the conscious and the unconscious change. The words lose the potency to describe the experience of ones’ presence. One is just is, quiet, what then is unconscious?

Letter to Chen Weiming by Sun Naiyi

  
Chen Weiming was a senior student of Yang Cheng Fu. 

What this showed me personally is that the natural course of a relationship between master apprentice can meta-morph only into friendship
 
Close friendship so rare in these crazy times, I’ve lived alone these past three years. If I saw you again I’d think it a dream, then cheerful chat would let me forget my worries. Most don’t want to hear intelligent words, so I hold them in to keep from looking stupid, but once my pen is ready and I can write my thoughts to you, language spills over to flow like clouds and rivers. I’ve moved to Hebei with all I have, and the times have made me grey though not yet old. Though in my life in this world, time with you agreed with me.
     I’ve been training in both pen and sword, daily drilling postures of dragon and tiger, hands wielding the Jingang Boxing, mind contemplating the taiji meaning: body upright as in the archery ritual, adapting in the spirit of the Book of Changes, using softness to deal with hardness, whatever is attempted will succeed. There is much barbarity when eras end [referring to the Qing Dynasty, which was formally replaced by an unstable republic just fourteen years before this was written], and defending the nation depends on sharpening its weapons [here a metaphor for strengthening its people]. That is why you are promoting our health to reduce our sickness, and I hope you succeed in your purpose.
     I’m not afraid of getting old, nor should you worry about me being lonely. You and I used to be so busy in our tasks from morn till eve, then we’d analyze the problems of the times. Our chatter lengthened the day, right up until it was time to sleep. Though we’ve traveled far apart I’ve not forgotten you, and my words ache to have somewhere to go. I keep up my exercises, to maintain my energy if nothing else, but when I think beyond the horizon, I imagine the camaraderie in your school.
     We oared up to a bank of the Han river, during those travels we took together. While resting on the riverside and trying to hitch a ride on a passing carriage, we made our plans for the future. Though blessed by your presence, time cannot last. River flows on, and the meetings and partings of people are but bubbles in the froth of waves. This is the way of things, even a long life too short to find what we seek. May you always feel fulfilled within yourself, and with whole heart I toast to our friendship.

                                                                                                              Sun Naiyi, Aug 1925
                                      
Source : The Art of Taiji Boxing

Netaji and an instance of his legacy forgotten

A very casual sounding reference to Subhash Chandra Bose and even more casual treatment about his legacy was made on 27 September 2015 Times Of India's editorial by one Mr. Aakar Patel titled "Is our Netaji the sameman who was enamored of Hitler?". It remains to be seen as to what the motivations of the author were. All that could be gathered from the article was that Mr. Aakar's respect towards Bose was more out of fear lest he hurt the sentiments of his mother. 

It is sad that any mention of Bose in conversations will bracket one as a conspiracy theorist, blue eyed nationalist, fascist or a Bengali. At one instant he quotes the medical officer Dr Kasliwal stating

"Bose has the military mind of Shivaji, the catholicity of Akbar and the intellectual genius of Vivekananda"

and in same breath dismisses Bose of any military acumen referring to his opinion formed after reading the medic's book terming it comic- smells like a straw man's fallacy. It is a free country one is free to pedal ones' opinion. History is not respected by Indians and are casual about it. Some of my close friends even go about advising "What is the point?" The point is simply that knowing ones' history is an act of gratitude towards ones' legacy. The freedom that we enjoy is a legacy and its history has to be understood lest we squander it before our children can enjoy them. It is a responsibility to learn of the dangers in realpolitik- propaganda, mis-information, obfuscation and hearsay. It is responsibility to study how the power is shared in a democracy. Democracy is not a switch we turn on and enjoy but to power it and guide it with reason, action and responsibility. The record has to be set straight to the best of ones' ability.

There were stalwarts who lead and perished to absolute doom many to oblivion. Little by little the tide turned and the tryst with destiny was achieved. Each one of them played a crucial role despite anyone’s' judgment. Their stories point us incessantly to what responsibility one carries as a citizen and to what extent we need to ready ourselves to meet the demands. One story in that is that of Subhash Chandra Bose. In [1] Dr A. Mani and Dr. P Ramasamy shed light on the impact Bose and INA made on the psyche of South-East Asian Indians. Excerpted from it a quote from a former INA soldier V Samy reads

 "The arrival of Netaji Bose in Southeast Asia kindled a new spirit among all Indians who began to believe that India would be free soon. Netaji's call reached into the hearts and minds of all Indians. His call for total mobilization to free India generated a tremendous response."

Netaji was not only a Bengali, he was Tamilian, Punjabi, Moslem, Sindhi, Ceylonies, and every hue he reached out to. He was what an Indian is or can be. In [2] Netaji spoke 

'I was lucky, however, that the environment in which I grew up was on the whole conducive to the broadening of my mind. In fact I cannot remember even to have looked upon Muslims as different from ourselves in any way except that they go to pray in Mosque.'

Which Indian leader went to the rescue of Indian POWs captured by the dessert fox Rommel's blitzkrieg in North Africa? His meeting with Hitler was to negotiate the turning of the Indian POWs into the Azad Hind Fauz [3]. Evading the house arrest and travelling to Germany through Afghanistan, Central Asia in those days talks about a character with more than just grit. The sheer scale of the idea dwarfed other luminaries thoroughly. We may have the luxury of a hindsight and be very off-hand with our judgment but at that time who knew that the same idea would find resonance with the Japanese ambassador to Germany Oshima Hiroshi and their designs of an INA [4]. These go to show that he was not a passive idealist. To his wife he writes before parting [5]

 "...In a few weeks I must fly to my distant home. My country calls me - my duty calls me - I must leave you and go back to my first love - my country  so often have I told you I have already sold myself to my first love. I have very little to give anyone. What little I have I have given you. It  may not be worthy of you and of your great love for me - that is all that I have to give - and you cannot expect anything more from me.   I do not know what the future has in store for me. May be I shall spend my life in prison. May be, I shall be shot or hanged. ..."

This man loved his country, realizes the freedom that had to be taken and what it takes to take it. Measure this with a medic who feels wronged when being pointed out of an incorrect observance of etiquette. The relevance for martial ceremony is understood by the men in arms and may not make much sense to someone else even if they may have the gift of eloquence. As much as one may not understand an alien language it does not mean that one has to discard the alien expressions altogether. True open-minded ones would behave as a student. One would be diligent in observing the rigor and appreciate the delicacy of a heretherto unknown form of expression and get intimate with what is implied. In [1] the implication of martial rigor is made apparent and also the value his speeches offered to the cause of Indian Liberation

 "Netaji was a leader of immense populartiy. His public addresses in the capitals of East Asia drew unimaginable crowds. Indians loved Netaji.  For them he was a savior sent to redeem India from the clutches of British Imperialists. They were not only willing to join the INA but were ready to die for the cause of Mother India. Indians, Ceylonese, Muslims, Sinhalese and many other groups to part in the efforts of the INA."

and another citing the same source [1] quoting S.Somaiah (originally in Tamil)

  "After I heard the fiery speech of Netaji, I left the house of my maternal uncle at Naval Base. I went to Brasbasah Road Football Field, where they had an INA recruitment center. There were many students and youths standing in line. One of the recruiting officers walked down the line and pointed out to some of the youths to move and sit in another line. I joined a group of 150 youths seated in another area. We were told that we all looked young and we must all return home. Upon hearing this we all protested, but to no avail. We got angry and took all the tables and chairs in the area and started throwing at the registration officer. The Japanese military police turned up and arrested us and confined us at the neighboring Jhansi Regiment Camp. Next morning Netaji came to the camp, and we started shouting "Gandhijikujai! Nehurujikujai!". He also advise us to go home as we all looked like school children. We insisted that we want to fight and die for India's freedom. After all we were all recruited to the Balak Sena, with some being sent to Azad School to learn Japanese."

Many of the the INA returnees played very important role in the politics of Malayan peninsula. INA had altered the very nature of their psyche for the future generations if one is to follow the sources provided in this article. The arguments presented by one Nirad C Chaudhury in the face of the overwhelming impact Netaji's demeanor had on the masses can only be construed to be jealousy that a provincial Bengali Anglophile had towards an Indian and an Anglophobe.

 Bengali intellectual superciliousness may now seem to own Netaji's legacy but he was regarded first and foremost as an Indian. He was as much a Tamilian, Kashmiri, Gujarati and an Assamese at the same time. As for conspiracy theories surrounding Netaji's presence or absence- Moon landing is questioned so this is not an isolated instance of madness. That is the nature of information it will be questioned, vetted, some are more skilled at it than others. So what. There is more love that withstood the test of time for Netaji that demands answers. De-classify set the record straight. If it is left to imagination then any research with paucity of factual data will turn out one ludicrousness after another and never insight.

Life that courses through these veins is the same life that courses through its rivers. Its’ great minds are the stars in its firmament and one star that burns bright is Subhash Chandra Bose an Indian not only from South Asia but anyone who is intimate with the idea of India. This star is burning bright and will not fall easy because it denotes a meaning. That meaning is the sacrifice of many South Asian and South East Asian Indians running up to the fated campaigns in Manipur, Burma and Thailand, their families and that of the generation that grew up without a father, mother, brother or a sister. It was not only Netaji's war but the war of liberation by the Indians on the British. It is very unkind to say that it was one man's fascist war. That is not the legacy we inherited. It has become very fashionable to invoke the names of the leaders and skillfully neuter the values the leaders stood for. It has to come to this-immaturity and jugaad selling the newsprint of a Sunday edition, sad.

Reference

[1] A Mani and P.Ramasamy, "Subhash Chandra Bose and the Indian National Army: A South Asian Perspective",  Online PDF

[2] Subhash Chandra Bose, "An Indian Pilgrim and Letters 1912-1921"

[3] Nilanjana Sengupta, "A Gentleman's Word: The Legacy of Subhash Chandra Bose in South East Asia"

[4] Joyce C. Lebra, "The Indian National Army and Japan"

[5] Subhash chandra Bose, Letters to Emily Schlenke, Netaji Research Bureau

Photo Courtesy

Screen shot from the album of Swagata Sen Tezpuria on Facebook 

Keeping Quiet

Now we will count to twelve
and we will all keep still.

For once on the face of the earth,
let’s not speak in any language;
let’s stop for one second,
and not move our arms so much.

It would be an exotic moment
without rush, without engines;
we would all be together
in a sudden strangeness.

Fisherman in the cold sea
would not harm whales
and the man gathering salt
would look at his hurt hands.

Those who prepare green wars,
wars with gas, wars with fire,
victories with no survivors,
would put on clean clothes
and walk about with their brothers
in the shade, doing nothing.

What I want should not be confused
with total inactivity.
Life is what it is about;
I want no truck with death.

If we were not so single-minded
about keeping our lives moving,
and for once could do nothing,
perhaps a huge silence
might interrupt this sadness
of never understanding ourselves
and of threatening ourselves with death.
Perhaps the earth can teach us
as when everything seems dead
and later proves to be alive.

Now I’ll count up to twelve
and you keep quiet and I will go.

                -Pablo Neruda

On Intention

One intends to get early in the morning, eat less or eat healthy, go for a 20 min walk or a jog, meet a deadline or plan. It could be anything. It sets ones' view regarding the response to a need or a challenge. Typically to those with clear intention they may have a clear description regarding an intention. They may be able to specify what the intention is in terms of the need that is addressed and the action to be carried out. It is different from a wish in which case the exact action may not be clear, one wishes to be in such and such place but there is no clear idea of the action that would address the wish. In the case of an intention the action is clear as to what has to take place. It is different from a plan wherein what needs to happen is committed to memory but the action is yet to arise. In intention the rubber takes on the tarmac. The motive force is at work when one intends. A quite action expresses itself unraveling the possibilities of the moment in the womb of intention. The action may be an undercurrent of a massive river or a raging deluge all held and guided by the intention. Intention is the very effulgence  of the energy that Man has so naively believes to be in control of. The intention is response to the challenge. Fight or flight are both intentions arising out of the nature of the body to address a need.

Intention per se has nothing to do with either the glory or the ignominy of an action. The goodness or the badness are judgements arising out of one's value system and are post-fact o, i.e arising after the action has transpired. The value system is synonymous to the culture one is born and brought up into and is the content of ones' memory. Psychological Suffering also arises post-fact o depending on the judgements and it is from this culture that one seeks freedom from. There is a taste that one experiences during action with intention that renders the sequence of judgements arising out of the
value system meaningless. One may be unable to identify this depending upon ones' maturity and as a result one continually suffers the harassment from one's judgements. When one starts to take matters into their own hands and demonstrates the sense of responsibility to one's condition the opportunity to hone one's intention presents itself. The experience of being active gets deeper and deeper.
It grows matures with repetition enables one to sense life as it animates through one's eyes. With enough maturity the
one's conundrum of suffering is cracked to find it for what it has always been - a hollow shell.

One realizes the problems what one has created for themselves. One cannot help but intend the complete annihilation of the root- the ego. It is not a suicidal, on the contrary this intention respects the living body and the life itself. Compassion is an expression of this one and so is kindness and aloofness. In the view of this one the otherness diminishes with the diminishing one and oneness taking its place. The one gets deeper and deeper into intention itself grinding the one to dust.


With less more gets done for with a diminished one, there is diminished form to intention action that transpire is more natural. Love is the natural action of this very existence and one is presented with the opportunity to be closer to this nature. Pettiness, covetedness is long diminished paling in comparison to once passionate versions. The actions arising get lesser obfucations due to shame, fear and various other insecurities. This is the wisdom behind the adage- Love what you do and do what you love. It can be paraphrased as Love what you intend and intend what you love. One may recognize one's own created sufferings but still would give a form to one's intention. The maturity has to grow still and another jump realized within. The form may be ones work, practice or service. Ethics would play a big role naturally in one's action, the one is steadfast in one's respective intention despite the drama that human condition has come to assume.


To the mature one, word 'one' used here is more as a force of habit, who may have come to be regarded as saint or a Guru, the intentions ceases to assume any form. The actions thereof may be regarded effortless. There is little to distinguish any doer-ship to actions as the personalities of such a one telegraphs very little evidence but it may leave the less mature with an intuition of something uncanny. Life is mysterious if the human condition regarded in totality is anything to go by and even more so if you are to regard a single cell micro-organism to a large whale. All mental forms collapse and even mature ones with a practice appreciate as to how much chopping down of the ego
is still left. If it can be conjectured the mere presence of such is the intention. Lao Tzu's words come to mind

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."

If the intentions is the response to a need then what is the need of a Guru, Saint? It is to impel the suffering to unshackle from the cliche of mundane and enjoy the hilarious existence. Sprout the seeds of true intention and inspire the human to sock up, get responsible and fix the nonsense. If our daily existence is even peppered with instances of duties performed with unwavering intention then it is progress. More the merrier. There will be a confusion as to what is an intention against a wish or a will. Wish was described earlier and when it comes to will it can be regarded as a wish for an enhanced ego. The intention does not distinguish whether it is enhancing an ego or otherwise it is response to the challenge one is into and bigger that one is lesser will be the energy that will
animate the intention. Such ones may begin to rely on the intentions of others to negotiate life surrendering their selves to the machinations of Maya or illusions. Insecurities will be all that they deal with when it comes to sustaining the pretension. The "Successful" ones come to be regarded as a Leader, Mogul, Minister, Dictator and many such titles that can refer to them. The ones
woken up by the intention of mere presence would grow within to diminish the illusion and themselves. They may begin to walk alone away from the madness but are never lonely. The intention to be fully present will never leave room for one. Intention is ours, always will be
always has been. Intend and intend fully.
 

Ghost in the Shell Ost- Kenji Kawai

Making Of Cyborg 0:00-4:56   When you are dancing, a beautiful lady becomes drunken. When you are dancing, a shining moon rings.   A god descends for a wedding And dawn approaches while the night bird sings. God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. Kugutsuuta Uramite Chiru (Song of a Puppet) (5:01-8:32) Even the moon would not shine every day, every night Scaly thrushes cry on the sadness I turned and looked back, but the flower looked like they'd fallen out As if the feeling of solace has faded away... Gods gathers forward the next world And day breaks, and scaly thrushes cry A blossom has desire to satisfy and pray to God earnestly "I should grieve over myself at this-time life, The dream has gone Left my grudge and gone..."  Part of Kugutsuuta Aratayo Ni Kamutsudo Hite (12:31-14:07)   A blooming flower, Prays to God, In the world I live in, My existence is sorrowful, but the dream does not die.

Beautiful People

Cedric Villani 2010 Fields Medal winner on Beautiful Mind. A lovely talk that has no mathematics as it is commonly understood but as something more poetic and spiritual in a very down to earth honest manner without making any heavy philosophical argument.

Ethics and Mathmatics

A documentary on mathematician Grigori Perelman- The Man who proved the Poincare Conjecture. It is one of the unsolved problems for about 100 years until he saw the way through. A glimpse into the world of higher Mathematics, fame adulation money vs the satisfaction of just pure Mathematics.

"Perelman's Million is gone. But he doesn't care if it was a million dollars or a fistful of coins. He lives in a world where mysteries of the universe are unraveled not for money. To take this money meant to betray your principles. He solved the problem that only few in the world can understand. It is ridiculous to think that he is interested in our opinion."

One of a Kind

I am following this story of a whale with a call that can never be understood by any other of its kind or any other.

Lonely may be but it has definitely been able to reach out to us humans without ever being photographed or sighted. All it has is its unique call. An anomaly they say. A 52 Hz call as against the 20-22 Hz of its related (may be) Baleen Whale genus. This would mean that no other whale may ever know that it is around, needing company. No whale may understand this one. Mutation? Freak? Or is it one of a kind and the only one at that? It may even be the case of a whale who wants to be a little different singing in a note for art's sake. 

Baleen whale (Blue, Fin or Humpbacks) have the unique ability of generating low frequency hums thanks to a unique vocal system relying on a respiratory system that obviates frequent need to surface for air. This is because all of the air circulates within the large body of the whale. Blue whale is one among this kind and there are others. If you had seen "Finding Nemo" the scene where Dory and Marlin come in the way of Krills chased by a massive Blue Whale (Movie Still) ultimately finding their way through the filter feed of the large behemoth. That is Baleen for you, they don't have teeth.


The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute was the first to detect this unique whale song in 1989. From declassified SONAR recordings in 1992 by the US Navy the scientists were able to map the sojourns of this Genius off the coast of California, Aleutian Islands in the North Pacific and then all the way down to  Mexico. But then again this is what the detectable map of the Sonar recordings tell us, the range may be much more. In any case what seems to be clear that this too is different from the so far discovered patterns of Baleen whale movements in the region.

Over the years the voice in the song has grown deeper and, as the scientists would have us believe,  healthier. Swimming 70 Km everyday foraging and living the one of a kind life, explorer of depths unknown and at peace with it. Our Genius whale's wisdom may perhaps shed light on the mystic of life transcending the rigidity of the reptilian, territoriality of the mamilian vestiges with help of the human cerebral cortex deciphering from what our distant cousin has to say.

This story is still being chased and chances are that there will be a documentary on the search and study of scientists listening in perhaps not entirely to my liking "52: The Search for the Loneliest Whale in the World". Why Lonely? As Neal McCauly (De Niro) in "Heat" once said there is a difference between being lonely and being alone.

SAID A BLADE OF GRASS - Kahlil Gibran

Said a blade of grass to an autumn leaf, “You make such a noise falling! You scatter all my winter dreams.”
Said the leaf indignant, “Low-born and low-dwelling! Songless, peevish thing! You live not in the upper air and you cannot tell the sound of singing.”
Then the autumn leaf lay down upon the earth and slept. And when spring came she waked again — and she was a blade of grass.
And when it was autumn and her winter sleep was upon her, and above her through all the air the leaves were falling, she muttered to herself, “O these autumn leaves! They make such noise! They scatter all my winter dreams.”