Vastness

Help the folks, who need your help the most at this hour! Donate to Goonj to help our daily wage earners and labourers. click to embiggen In the vast abyss before time, self is not, and soul commingles with mist, and rock, and light. In time, soul brings the misty self to be. Then slow time hardens self to stone while ever lightening the soul, till soul can loose its hold of self and both are free and can return...

May 4, 2020 · Mario Jason Braganza

Idleness is a Virtue

Help the folks, who need your help the most at this hour! Donate to Goonj to help our daily wage earners and labourers. click to embiggen “I have often wondered whether especially those days when we are forced to remain idle are not precisely the days spent in the most profound activity. Whether our actions themselves, even if they do not take place until later, are nothing more than the last reverberations of a vast movement that occurs within us during idle days....

April 27, 2020 · Mario Jason Braganza

Why Wait?

Help the folks, who need your help the most at this hour! Donate to Goonj to help our daily wage earners and labourers. “The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.” — W.M. Lewis P.S. Subscribe to my mailing list! Forward these posts and letters to your friends and get them to subscribe! P.P.S. Feed my insatiable reading habit....

April 20, 2020 · Mario Jason Braganza

On Bees

Help the folks, who need your help the most at this hour! Donate to Goonj to help our daily wage earners and labourers. click to embiggen “The lovely flowers embarrass me, They make me regret I am not a bee.” — Emily Dickinson “Place a beehive on my grave And let the honey soak through. When I’m dead and gone, That’s what I want from you. The streets of heaven are gold and sunny,...

April 13, 2020 · Mario Jason Braganza

Get Lost to Find Yourself

Help the folks, who need your help the most at this hour! Donate to Goonj to help our daily wage earners and labourers. click to embiggen “We need to feel a little bit lost somewhere, physically or intellectually, at least once a day.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb (spiritually too! - me) P.S. Subscribe to my mailing list! Forward these posts and letters to your friends and get them to subscribe!...

April 6, 2020 · Mario Jason Braganza

Being Happy With Life

click to enlarge “All of life is about ending up somewhere you didn’t expect, and learning to just be happy with it.” — Lauren Oliver, Vanishing Girls P.S. Subscribe to my mailing list! Forward these posts and letters to your friends and get them to subscribe! P.P.S. Feed my insatiable reading habit.

March 30, 2020 · Mario Jason Braganza

You Make Me Feel, So Beautiful!

click to embiggen I have lost my illusions, I have drowned in your words I have left my confusion to a cynical world I am throwing myself at things I don’t understand Discover enlightenment holding your hand You are … So beautiful!

February 17, 2020 · Mario Jason Braganza

When I Am Among the Trees

This post was first sent to my newsletter on December 14th, 2020. You really ought to subscribe :) When I am among the trees, especially the willows and the honey locust, equally the beech, the oaks and the pines, they give off such hints of gladness. I would almost say that they save me, and daily. I am so distant from the hope of myself, in which I have goodness, and discernment,...

February 8, 2020 · Mario Jason Braganza

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Ubi enim est thesaurus tuus, ibi est et cor tuum. For where thy treasure is, there is thy heart also. You’ve stood by me through thick and thin. We’ve been through houses and hospitals and travails and travels around the world. We finish each other’s thoughts and sentences, (much to Poo’s chagrin,) I don’t know what I’d do without you. To quote a silly old country song, When my life is through,...

September 10, 2019 · Mario Jason Braganza

Phenomenal Woman

Now you understand Just why my head’s not bowed. I don’t shout or jump about Or have to talk real loud. When you see me passing, It ought to make you proud. I say, It’s in the click of my heels, The bend of my hair, the palm of my hand, The need for my care. ’Cause I’m a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That’s me. — Maya Angelou P.S. Subscribe to my mailing list!...

September 9, 2019 · Mario Jason Braganza