Random Thoughts

I don't know what is scarier among the two - events unfolding around us these days OR how various elements of our society are responding to these events. For the past several years i have observed a hardening of stance. I have lamented the victory of OPINION over FACTS, AGENDA over FAIRNESS, CULT over LEADERSHIP and VIOLENCE over EMPATHY. 2020 was supposed to herald a fresh new perspective or at least this is what i thought. Instead the first 150 days of this year have shown a stream of several thousand migrants forgotten, abandoned and abused by their own in the midst of a pandemic. I've seen young people hunted down simply on the basis of the color of their skin. I have seen a thousand lies struck down by a simple pardon. I have seen government servants humiliated, I have seen science desecrated and I have seen bullying go mainstream and worshipped. And yet for the most part a vast majority has accepted this unfairness in quiet outrage. Some have glorified it and pro...

About 40 miles away from our house in Texas is a wildlife preserve called Hagerman. It is a nondescript sanctuary where oil field and lake co-exist; which one could easily miss if they did not pay attention to the brown road signs leading up to it. And yet for all its secretive existence its home to one of the most impressive sights we have seen as far as texas wildlife is concerned. Thousands upon thousands of migratory birds make this place their temporary abode enroute to warmer climes. Standing there on a December afternoon i could not but admire the amazing sight of a zillion geese first descending on the green fields for a feed and then majestically taking off for the nearby lake to avoid becoming a feed for the larger predator. I felt for my winged friends and for the arduous journey they undertook every year to sustain life. And yet i felt with the passage of time we were impeding on their ...