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Just Two Steps! I traveled miles, for many a year I spent a lot in lands afar I’ve gone to see the mountains The oceans, I’ve been to view But I haven’t seen with these eyes Just two steps from my home lies On a sheaf of paddy grain A glistening drop of dew. The message communicated by the Bengali Nobel laureate poet R N Tagore in the above poem is true to many of us who had to visit various countries of the world either for business purposes or as a globe-trotter. Believe me, though I had the opportunity to travel from time to time, it never occurred to me to see many interesting objects in the small town where I grew up. 
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The amazing steps
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** Well said and very true~~~ 
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I think of the mess caused by the greed for fossil fuels, the entitled assumption that travel opens the mind......and then there is Tagore's simple, genius poem......a drop of dew close to home......
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11/18/2021 5:32 pm |
Hello Look......Thanks for sharing that. Creative Ideas.
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** Well said and very true~~~
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TxJW, thanks for your post. There is nothing in the world that is sweeter than home. Homes are our roots. We come back to the roots at day's end. Quote At day's end, like the hush of dew Comes evening. A hawk wipes the scent of sunlight from its wings. When earth's colors fade and some pale design is sketched, Then glimmering fireflies paint in the story. All birds come home, all rivers, all of life's tasks finished. unquote
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How very true. Sometimes we fail to see the beauty around us. Thanks for sharing it with us.
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I think of the mess caused by the greed for fossil fuels, the entitled assumption that travel opens the mind......and then there is Tagore's simple, genius poem......a drop of dew close to home......
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Hello Look......Thanks for sharing that.
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How very true. Sometimes we fail to see the beauty around us. Thanks for sharing it with us.
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PERHAPS I AM ONE OF THE FEW PEOPLE WHO NEVER SAW ANYTHING VERY INTERESTING IN THE PLACE FROM WHERE I COME. IN FACT I HAVE FOUND SO MUCH MORE WHERE I LIVE NOW THAT I HAVE NO REGRETS.
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PERHAPS I AM ONE OF THE FEW PEOPLE WHO NEVER SAW ANYTHING VERY INTERESTING IN THE PLACE FROM WHERE I COME. IN FACT I HAVE FOUND SO MUCH MORE WHERE I LIVE NOW THAT I HAVE NO REGRETS.
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Perhaps it takes seeing things away from home to make us appreciate what we do have close to us. Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.
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Perhaps it takes seeing things away from home to make us appreciate what we do have close to us.
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I haven't been able to travel courtesy of the pandemic thus learned to appreciate what is within my own community. Abracadabra 
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I haven't been able to travel courtesy of the pandemic thus learned to appreciate what is within my own community.
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