Losar Tashi Delek

Happy Bhutanese, Tibetan, Chinese…New Year!
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Wishing everyone a happy, wish-fulfilling, prosperous and successful Year of the earth mouse 2135.
May peace prevail on earth!
Losar Tashi Delek!
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Dragon that fell from the sky

They felt dark forces looming across the gloomy skyline. Lightning stroke, breaking a few pine trees into halves. Thunder roared like the beating of a thousand drums. Children looked at their parents with fear. The parents themselves relied upon each other’s courage, already fading with each passing moment.
‘It’s the end of the world,’ someone said [...]

When the rainbow’s gone

She ran, raising her hands in the air, trying to catch the raindrops that teased her face. Tongue out, she tried to taste them.
Sun shone, its rays filtered through a thin opening in the clouds. The little girl was happy.
When rain stopped, she ran to her mother and cried.
‘What are you crying for?’ said the [...]

Light and Darkness

A blind man looked into the sun and laughed.
Then he shouted, ‘the light does not hurt my eyes!’
People looked at him with mixed emotions. Some pitied him while some chuckled for the fun of it.
‘Where’s that?’ he wondered, reaching out his hands for support, ‘where’s that?’ and walked straight to a pit.

Vicious Circle

Then I bumped onto a man, lost and perhaps wounded. What ensued made little sense.
‘Hello,’ said he.
‘Hi,’ said I, ‘how’s everything?’
‘Not good…’
‘Not good? Why so?’
Smiles.
‘Anything I can do?’
‘Can you spare me some change?’
Gave him some…
‘Do you work?’
‘Yes,’ said the man, ‘don’t have money to go to work…’