why will rolling stone not gather moss, it is moving all the time and has no time to let moss grow on it? imagine if it was rolling all the time in moss pool, will some moss not stick? That’s the point. When surrounded by oddity and creativity all around, there is no reason some will not stick to us, may be a small pause here and there will help it stick.
all through the last 50 years, i have moved through a variety of roles and last 40 years as a professor and founder of Honey Bee Network, SRISTI, GIAN and National Innovation Foundation. i have failed more often than not. Sometimes, the institutions i built carried forward the soul along with, sometimes they lost a bit of it, but carried forward nevertheless.
I will share more instances of both kinds but that is not important. What is important is the that hardly a day has passed when i did not get surprised!!
it is for this reason i assert, the day you are not surprised you have not lived, you have just existed.
how can a moment not come when i say, Oh my God, i did not know this. I never imagined, did I know that “British and German meeting in No Man's Land during unofficial true Christmas 1914. Northumberland Hussars, 7th Division, Bridoux-Banks Sector” recalled by Shaun Usher? No i did not
These are the things we have heard of in Mahabharat days, thousands of years ago. But it happened just a century and a half ago. if that truce could happen, could not Ukraine and Russia decide to pause on the new year and let worriers talk to each other, laugh, cry and sing?
let both Presidents know that it is possible