While one new superhero was made last week – endearingly so – in the wonderful city by the bay – San Francisco, another superhero bid goodbye – Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar – India’s cricket god retired. Exactly 24 years to the day when he started his career of breaking almost every cricketing record, he played his last innings while a whole nation stopped to watch him and Indians as well as cricketing fans around the world paused and even wept as he left the stadium for the last time.
Batkid’s family wants to pay-it-forward and they have setup the Batkid Fund the proceeds of which will benefit three charities chosen by them including the Make-a-Wish Foundation that made all this possible. Information on this can be found here or by clicking on the Batkid Fund icon on the right.
Being part of a larger group does help and that is what the Clever Girls Collective achieved for Batkid last week. Yay for the good that comes out of social media!
Lights
For Saturday Snapshot, 6WS, and dVerse Poetics – Calendar Gals and Guys
glittering lamps bring calm and peace
Karthigai
A new month dawns
Pleiades and the moon
They conjoin…
Rows of oil-lit lamps
Glittering, flickering
As a breeze floats by
Adorn the outside
of our home
The Karthigai month
on our very own calendar
Each passing day
marked by a pair of diyas
Not lonesome as they
sit together on a adorned
log of cherry blossom.
Sweet treats and festive food
on the very first day
Sisters for their brothers, they pray
As the month moves on
The sweet treats are gone
Though the festive moon
it lingers on!
For SY (word: border)
The moment the poster went up, Bertie gobbled, “Let’s move fast, the border is not too far off. Across the border, they may not eat turkey.”
Monarch
For Magpie Tales(image – Autumn on the river), Sunday Whirl(Regard lessen create gap gathering suffering however choice undoing cycle habits virtue), and Sunday Scribblings(flight)
oh yes! time passes. love the parallel you drew here with flickering diyas
This is so lovely:
Rows of oil-lit lamps
Glittering, flickering
As a breeze floats by
Adorn the outside
of our home
Happy Karthigai Diwali, wish I was there for the food though. Sorry for my luck. Hope the six nymphs 'stars' shine ever so bright. Ever changing astrological calendars, how do they keep up?
Very interesting . Keeping lamps full of oil is a real job.
oh nice… that sounds like a wonderful way to celebrate a special month…. happy celebration.. so much magic with the oil lamps and the cherry blossom log…
smiles…i will plead ignorance, but i followed your link and read a bit on the stars signifigance, and this time of year…quite fascinating…thanks for learning me…smiles.
I like the last stanza –
Undoing what has been done
That might be tough
Hopefully we can improve today and for tomorrow!
I've missed stopping by your blog! Hope you are doing well!
A beautiful picture of the lamps…
I like the "virtue of greens habits" in Monarch Magic. Birds have enough competition between themselves without us making life even more difficult. Even I as an Australian was sad to see Sachin Tendulkar retire, he truly was a worthy ambassador for cricket.
How beautiful, to tie this all in, priceless.
The die may well be cast …. But a lovely sentiment, thanks