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POSITIVITY  https://youtu.be/su2E_XgKxSw?si=MkgvaF27LuYvt9kj

I CAN SEE YOU & RIVER OF LIFE (2 songs)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYBP5fPdeJo

PUT IT RIGHT YOURSELF https://youtu.be/5FI9VADbPKw?si=f0RKp1bZUCNVOsxm

BLOWING IN THE WIND https://youtu.be/V081TFEwAv0?si=wfisgpmyeU84Ql25

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Archaeologists Unearth 43,000 Ancient Egyptian Notes and Receipts

 Archaeologists Unearth 43,000 Ancient Egyptian Notes and Receipts 

17 March 2026

A vast archive of everyday writing from ancient Egypt is reshaping how historians understand life beyond temples, tombs, and royal courts. At the Upper Egyptian site of Athribis, archaeologists have now documented more than 43,000 inscribed pottery fragments, or ostraca, many of them containing receipts, short notes, name lists, school exercises, and practical reminders that resemble ancient “to do” lists. The discovery, announced in March 2026, offers an unusually detailed record of administration, education, religion, and daily routines across multiple eras of Egyptian history.

A Record-Breaking Discovery at Athribis

The headline development behind “Archaeologists Unearth 43,000 Ancient Egyptian Receipts, Notes, and ‘To Do’ Lists” centers on Athribis, an archaeological site near Sohag in Upper Egypt. A joint Egyptian-German mission working at the site has recovered roughly 13,000 additional ostraca in the latest phase of excavation, bringing the total documented there to more than 43,000. According to coverage citing the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, the cache is considered one of the largest collections of inscribed pottery fragments ever found at a single Egyptian site. 

 Ostraca are broken pieces of pottery or limestone reused as inexpensive writing surfaces. In the ancient world, they often served the same function as scrap paper: quick notes, tax records, receipts, labels, accounts, and drafts. Britannica describes ostraca as fragments commonly used to jot down business matters, a definition that helps explain why the Athribis material is so valuable to historians of ordinary life.

The Athribis project itself has been active for years. The University of Tübingen has said its team has worked in Athribis since 2003, and excavations have produced a steadily growing body of inscribed material. A 2022 university release reported more than 18,000 ostraca from the site at that stage; by October 2024, a papyrology conference abstract placed the total at almost 34,000; and the March 2026 announcement pushed the figure above 43,000. That sequence shows how quickly the archive has expanded and why the latest milestone has drawn international attention.

Archaeologists Unearth 43,000 Ancient Egyptian Receipts, Notes, and ‘To Do’ Lists

What makes this discovery especially compelling is not only the number of texts, but their content. Reports on the Athribis finds describe inscriptions in Demotic, Hieratic, Coptic, Greek, and Arabic, indicating that the site remained active across a long historical span and under changing political and cultural conditions. The texts range from administrative records to personal and educational writing, creating a layered archive of life over more than a millennium.

Many of the fragments are mundane by design. They include receipts, accounts, lists of names, and short memoranda. Earlier reporting from the University of Tübingen on the same excavation highlighted examples such as billing records and receipts, while other summaries of the Athribis corpus point to school texts and routine written exercises. These are the kinds of documents that rarely survive in large numbers, yet they are often the most revealing for social history because they show how people worked, learned, paid, counted, and organized their days.

The phrase “to do lists” captures public imagination because it makes the ancient material feel instantly familiar. Although the exact wording of each ostracon varies, the broader category includes practical reminders and short working notes rather than literary compositions. In effect, the Athribis archive preserves the paperwork of ordinary existence: the ancient equivalent of receipts in a drawer, a note on a wall, or a list left on a table. That is why the discovery resonates far beyond specialist archaeology circles.

Why pottery fragments were used for writing

Papyrus was available in ancient Egypt, but it was not always the cheapest or most practical material for quick writing. Broken pottery was abundant, durable, and easy to reuse. For temporary records, calculations, and short messages, ostraca were a practical solution. The survival of so many examples at Athribis gives researchers a rare chance to study not just formal documents, but the disposable writing habits of the ancient world.

What the Texts Reveal About Daily Life

The importance of the Athribis ostraca lies in their ability to illuminate people who usually remain invisible in monumental history. Royal inscriptions tell historians how rulers wanted to be remembered. Receipts and notes, by contrast, show how communities actually functioned. They can reveal who paid taxes, how goods moved, which languages were used, and what kinds of institutions shaped local life.

Based on published descriptions of the finds, the Athribis texts touch on several areas of daily activity:

• Administration: accounts, receipts, and official notations tied to local management.
• Education: writing exercises and school-related texts that show how literacy was taught.
• Religion: material linked to temple life and later Christian occupation in the region.
• Language change: inscriptions in several scripts and languages that track cultural transitions over centuries.

This breadth matters because Athribis was not a single-period site frozen in time. The material spans the Ptolemaic period, the Roman era, the Coptic period, and into the Islamic era, according to Egyptian press coverage of the excavations. That long chronology allows scholars to compare how administration, literacy, and local society evolved.

According to the University of Tübingen’s earlier statement on the excavation, the ostraca provide “diverse insights” into everyday life in the ancient settlement. That assessment is consistent with the latest reporting: the value of the discovery is cumulative. One receipt may seem minor, but tens of thousands of such fragments can reveal patterns in economy, language, and social organization that no single monumental inscription could provide.

Why the Discovery Matters to Archaeology

For archaeologists and historians, the Athribis archive is significant because it broadens the evidence base for ancient Egypt. Popular attention often focuses on gold, statues, tombs, and elite burials. Yet written fragments from ordinary settings can be just as important. They help scholars reconstruct the mechanics of daily life, from taxation and trade to schooling and household management.

The discovery also matters methodologically. Large groups of ostraca can be studied statistically as well as philologically. Researchers can sort them by language, date, handwriting, content type, and archaeological context. That makes it possible to ask larger questions: When did one script overtake another? How did local bureaucracy function? What kinds of texts were common in temple or settlement areas? The Athribis material is especially useful because of its scale and chronological range.

There is also a preservation story here. Ostraca survive where more fragile materials may not. Because they are ceramic fragments, they can endure harsh conditions and remain legible long after papyrus has decayed. In that sense, the Athribis finds preserve a documentary record that might otherwise have vanished.

For Egypt, the discovery adds to a broader pattern of archaeological announcements that support heritage research and cultural tourism. While the scholarly value comes first, major finds also reinforce international interest in Egypt’s archaeological landscape and in long-running collaborations between Egyptian authorities and foreign research institutions.

Challenges of Interpreting 43,000 Ancient Texts

The scale of the discovery is also its challenge. Recovering more than 43,000 inscribed fragments is only the beginning. Each piece must be cleaned, cataloged, photographed, read, translated where possible, and placed in context. Some texts are complete, but many are fragmentary. Others may be difficult to date precisely or may preserve only names and numbers.

That means the public headline — Archaeologists Unearth 43,000 Ancient Egyptian Receipts, Notes, and ‘To Do’ Lists — captures only the first stage of a much longer research process. Specialists in Demotic, Greek, Coptic, Arabic, and other scripts will continue working through the material for years. New interpretations are likely as more fragments are joined, compared, and published.

There is also a caution against oversimplification. Describing some texts as “to do lists” is useful shorthand, but not every short list or memorandum has the same function. Some may be inventories, some school exercises, some administrative notes, and some personal reminders. A careful scholarly approach requires distinguishing among those categories rather than treating all brief texts as identical. That nuance is part of what makes the archive so valuable.

What Comes Next

The next phase is likely to focus on documentation and publication. The Oxyrhynchus papyri project in Oxford shows how long-term publication efforts can transform fragmentary finds into major historical resources over decades. Athribis may follow a similarly extended path, with specialists gradually editing and publishing groups of texts.

As more of the Athribis ostraca are studied, researchers may be able to map local networks of officials, workers, students, and religious communities with greater precision. They may also identify shifts in language use and administration across centuries. Some fragments will remain obscure, but others could become key evidence for understanding regional life in Upper Egypt. That is a major reason the discovery has drawn such strong interest from both archaeologists and the wider public.

Conclusion

The discovery at Athribis shows why small objects can produce big historical insights. More than 43,000 inscribed pottery fragments, including receipts, notes, and practical lists, now offer one of the richest documentary windows into everyday life in ancient Egypt. Rather than focusing on kings and monuments alone, the archive captures the routines of administration, education, religion, and ordinary communication across many centuries.

For readers in the US and beyond, the significance is clear: this is not simply another archaeological headline about a spectacular artifact. It is a record of how ancient people organized work, tracked payments, learned to write, and managed daily obligations. In that sense, the story behind “Archaeologists Unearth 43,000 Ancient Egyptian Receipts, Notes, and ‘To Do’ Lists” is both academically important and deeply human.

Song: Blowing in the Wind: words by Alun Buffry, vocals and music by AI

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I feel that practising the techniques of Knowledge shown to me by Prem Rawat over 50 years ago has led me a feeling of contentment in my life and enabled me to feel a blessed peace within, and escape from the everyday noise that otherwise fills my mind.

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Prem Rawat Teaches Self-Knowledge:
Techniques to Experience Personal Peace

Prem Rawat teaches a simple method to help turn your senses from the outside world to an inner experience of peace, an experience unique to each person. He offers guidance and practical tools he calls the “techniques of Self-Knowledge”, or just “Knowledge.” Practicing these empowering techniques daily helps you to better understand your true self, revealing an ever-evolving experience of heartfulness and contentment.

Throughout this self-paced video course, Prem Rawat facilitates a journey of self-discovery. Rather than describing or defining personal peace, the course materials engage you to reach your own understanding.

The self-paced course aims to help you get in touch with your inner strength whether you opt to learn the techniques of Knowledge afterwards or not — the decision is all yours.

My Piece of Peace 

 

Al Zeeman

Alzee was a name given to me in 1971 ("Hey Alzee Man!") and many have known me by that name or vaiations since then - Alsee, Alsy, Alsey - my birth name Alun Buffry, I have never hidden my identity and most of my books were written under that name - for this one I decided to make a change.

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Al Zeeman first consumed cannabis in 1970 whilst at University, firstly in the form of “Coffee Bhangs” and hash cakes, then smoking mixed with tobacco or pure in pipes. After graduating, he travelled across Europe to India and back, stopping off in several places such as Kabul to sample the hasheesh.

Upon returning from India, he started following the teaching and practices of Prem Rawat, then known as “Guru Maharaji”, a fifteen year old from India.

A few years later, Al started smoking cannabis again and continued to so for almost 50 years, including his time in several UK prisons. He continued to follow Prem Rawat which he still does today.

But during the time since 1970, Al Zeeman travelled widely throughout Europe, also visiting Morocco, India, Nepal, Kashmir and Egypt, meeting many people and smoking hos weed (and theirs) and was so often "stoned again”.

The author also participated in “Legalise Cannabis Campaigns” for over thirty years, even standing for Parliament under the banner of the Legalise Cannabis Alliance (LCA) on the single issue, in 2001.

This is his account of his experiences, the places he saw and some of the friends he made.

This book, along with many amusing anecdotes, recalls his encounters and near misses with the forces of law in the UK. Also the book contains a wealth of information on the uses of cannabis / hemp, the types and sources, smoking utensils, some political opinions and a chronology of cannabis.

Zeeman pays tribute to the cannabis campaigners and enthusiasts that he met along the way, many of whom have now passed on, including Howard Marks, Chris Baldwin, Don Barnard, Winston Matthews, Mark and Lezley Gibson, Clara O’Donnell, Jack and Tina Girling, Lee Harris, Steve Pank, Jooep Oomen and “Granny” Pat Tabram.

At the end of the book, Zeeman gives his birth name, Alun Buffry, stating that he has never made any attempt to hide his identity.

Table of Contents:

NICOLAS CULPEPER, CANNABIS LAWS – PROHIBITION, COFFEE-BHANGS AND HASH CAKES, THE DEALER’S HAT, FIRST CHILLUM, A BRUSH OR TWO WITH THE LAW,FRANKFURT, MUNICH, BELGRADE, ISTANBUL, AFYON /AFYONKARAISHAR, THE FISHERMAN ON THE BEACH, HEADING EAST, AFGHANISTAN, KABUL, HELMUT, KHYBER PASS AND ONWARDS TO INDIA, INDIA: HARIDWAR AND THE GANGES, NORFOLK, THE WRECKING CREW, BUSTED, WICKLEWOOD, MR NICE, JACK AND LILY, STANLEY ATKINS, JOE HARDY-SHARP,POLISH CHRIS – CHRIS LAUSCH, MONTY, LESLEY JAMES, THE “BIG MONEY GANG”,CAMPAIGN TO LEGALISE CANNABIS INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION 1992, BANGED UP, HOWARD MARKS, MR NICE 1997,THE LEGALISE CANNABIS ALLIANCE (LCA) 1999, TRAVELLING HIGH, NOL VAN SHAIK’S SPANISH COMPLEX, CAMPAIGN GROUPS DURING AND AFTER THE LCA, METHODS OF CONSUMPTION, TYPES AND SOURCES OF CANNABIS, RECREATIONAL OR MEDICAL, CANNABIS ABROAD, HOLLAND AND THE NETHERLANDS, SPAIN, PORTUGAL, IRELAND, GERMANY, FRANCE, SWITZERLAND, GREECE, ITALY: SICILY, MOROCCO, INDIA, OTHER COUNTRIES, THE BAD STUFF, GROW YOUR OWN, CANNABIS PROTESTS, HEADSHOPS, SMOKEY BEARS PICNICS, RALLIES AND MARCHES, COFFEESHOPS, BYE BYE, A CHRONOLOGY OF CANNABIS.

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Kicking Balls - a poem by Alun Buffry, May 2025

KICKING BALLS

by
Alun Buffry
(May 2025)

That day did come I said goodbye,
And daily since I'd want to cry,
'Cos heaven's not in clouds on high,
And Angels not up in the sky.

The Master said it's all within,
No Karma comes from past lives' sins.
The world we take upon the chin,
And on we struggle thick and thin.

Those that passed on from our sight,,
We wonder if perhaps we might
Meet once more on lofty height
Beyond this world and all its plights.

Illusion, monks tell us, is all around
As beaten gongs that speed their sounds,
Vibrating air and through the ground
To free us from our temple mounds.

One day each one of us must go
And only then we'll surely know
The crops that grew from seed we'd sowed.
And answers to our lifetime's woes.

We live our lives between two walls.
We walk our paths with its pitfalls.
In truth I say, all in all,
What fun I had kicking life's balls.

The Point of Life

 

Haoma, Zoroastrian drink of cannabis, poppy and ephedra

 The sacred Zoroastrian drink, Haoma (cognate with Vedic Soma), is traditionally identified as a ritual beverage made from ephedra. However, some archaeological evidence from Central Asian temples suggests that ancient, pre-Zoroastrian or early, ritual, infusions可能 included a combination of psychoactive plants, including cannabis, ephedra, and opium poppy. 

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'Cleopatra: The Experience’ immersive show opens in UK later this March

 UK: 'Cleopatra: The Experience’ immersive show opens in UK later this March

https://www.inavateonthenet.net/news/article/cleopatra-the-experience-immersive-show-opens-in-uk-later-this-march

 The exhibition is spread over more than 3,000 square metres and featuring nine interactive galleries.

The exhibition offers an immersive journey into Ancient Egypt, placing visitors inside the world of Queen Cleopatra, the last ruler of the Ptolemaic Dynasty. The event has already run in Madrid, where it welcomed more than 200,000 visitors, further global dates are planned after London. 

Alongside immersive technology, the exhibition showcases a curated selection of more than 22 original artefacts from the Hellenistic and Late Egyptian periods.

One Standout area is Cleopatra’s private chamber, where Cleopatra appears on interactive mirrors. A large interactive map of Alexandria features 5D sensory effects, including atmospheric scents.

The experience climaxes in a projection mapping and sound show projected onto a five-metre recreation of the Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

The penultimate gallery immerses visitors in a 360-degree, 8t-metre-high cinematic projection space. The exhibition concludes with a seated VR experience, recreating the earthquake that submerged Alexandria beneath the sea and the search for Cleopatra’s lost tomb.

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Archaeologists Discovered a Funerary Complex Left Untouched for Nearly 4,000 Years

 Archaeologists Discovered a Funerary Complex Left Untouched for Nearly 4,000 Years

Popular Mechanics  March 4 2026

Finds from the site include necklaces, amulets, and cursive hieroglyphs inscribed on pots.

Along the west bank of the Nile near Aswan, Egypt, a series of rock-cut tombs have been holding centuries of history and artifacts. A renewed excavation at the Oubbet el-Hawa site has uncovered some of it, digging up a funerary complex with roots coinciding with the construction of the great pyramids of the Old Kingdom from 2686 to 2181 B.C.E.

While scouring the funerary shafts and chambers of the rocky outcropping, archaeologists discovered that the location was much more than an Old Kingdom burial plot, with plenty of evidence of reuse. First built during the age of the great pyramids, the site was then repurposed during the First Intermediate Period and the Middle Kingdom, showing the prominence Oubbet el-Hawa held for centuries. 

 Archaeologists Unearthed a 1,000-Year-Old Tomb Filled With Gold

 Remains of one person, likely a high status individual, lay at the center of the tomb, surrounded by the gold and other human remains.

Archaeologists have finally dug into a tomb first identified in Panama in 2009, and their excavation efforts have quite literally struck gold.

As crews excavated the archaeological site El Caño in the Coclé province of Panama, work inside the tomb dubbed Tomb 3 is expanding the known funerary record of the country’s central provinces between the eighth and 11^th centuries C.E. The team discovered that the complex structure was full of golden grave goods, including bracelets, ear ornaments, and pectoral plates. There were also plenty of elaborately decorated ceramics, some with iconography highlighting local artisan traditions. 

 The find, as revealed in a translated statement from the Panama Ministry of Culture, is now being called one of the most important pre-Hispanic cemeteries in the region. “We are ready to tell the world much more about our cultural wealth,” Maria Eugenia Herrera, Panama’s minister of culture, said in a statement.

POSITIVITY - A song by Alun Buffry, words by Alun, vocals and Music by AI

Extract from Myhat in Egypt Through the Eyes of a God

 Myhat in Egypt Through the Eyes of a God 

Ana pointed to a worker who was doing something amidst a field of green crop. He was wearing just a loin cloth. It was very hot, much hotter than Ed had expected for quite early in the day. Ed felt overdressed in the djellaba over his jeans and tee-shirt, with me still clinging onto his head.

When they reached the worker, Ana spoke to him in Arabic.

The man shrugged and said something back. He was staring straight at me; I knew that I fascinated him and he wanted me on his head – not that Ed knew, but I would not have minded for a while, just to see through the man's eyes.

“He's saying hello, I think,” Ana said, turning to Ed.

“It's not Arabic though, it's more like Berber, the language they still speak in the desert in Morocco. I didn't know they spoke it here. I'll try and ask him where we are.”

Ana tried a few words and pointed around the place where they stood.”

The man pointed across the river and said “Oo – are – set.”

Ana looked at him and pointed also across the river. She said “Luxor?”

The man shrugged and said “Happy”.

Ana said said something that was not English and smiled. “Temple of Hatshepsut?” she asked.

Another shrug.

“Temple Karnak? Ramasseum?”

No response to that, just a big smile on his face and a small bow.

“Oo – are - set! Oo – are - set!” he said pointing and laughing.

“I don't know those words,” said Ana, “maybe it's somebody's name, like his boss? Or just an oo - are”

“Oh well,” said Ed, “From what I can guess, if we go round the hill we should find the road back to the village or at least see something familiar. It's kind of weird here. It doesn't look at all right. I just can't fathom where we are.”

They bowed slightly to the smiling man and set out to walk around the end of the hill that covered the tombs and tunnels they had passed through. From there, Ed thought, they should be able to see Luxor and the Temple.

In fact they did see a town spread out on the other side of the Nile, quite a large place but it was certainly not Luxor.

There were no big buildings or hotels, no Temple, just what looked like a palace. There were no tourist cruise boats moored there, no feluccas, just small craft, going back and forth across the river. There was no ferry.

Ed was quite stressed out by now, I could tell, and I too was getting concerned that they were lost. Yet this side was not exactly a huge area, just fields between the hills and the river.

It just looked like somewhere completely different, as if they had exited the tunnels many miles up or down stream, somewhere they had never been before. They found no road, saw no trace of human habitation except for the few men working in the fields.

“The phone's still not working,” said Ana, “I think we better go back and find that boulder and get back to Ayman and find out what's going on. Maybe he knows where we are. Maybe he has been here himself.”

They walked back round the hill and scrambled up to find the chalk marks.

As Ed was about to climb through the gap above the boulder with the chalk mark, Ana asked “Is this yours?”

She passed Ed a small lighter which had a picture of the pyramids on. Ed flicked it, but it didn't work. He put it in his pocket anyway. It was a very hot day and I knew that Ed was keen to get back into the cool tunnels.

They quickly climbed back into the tunnel and followed the chalk marks, much faster than it had taken them coming this way, not stopping so much. There were several other tunnels leading off at points, so I sensed Ed was glad he'd marked the way. He had not noticed them all on the way through.

Just about half an hour later, they exited through to the garden in the dilapidated house.

“I'll phone Ayman,” said Ed.

As he looked at his own mobile phone, he said “Well I get a signal but my phone says it's only eight-thirty”

Ana checked her own phone. “Weird, mine too. But it must have been two o'clock at least when we turned back, the sun was really high and I'm sure we were away for longer than that. We've definitely been gone for more than a few hours. It took over an hour to get through to the other end and we were there for at least four hours.”

Ed phoned Ayman and said that they were back but that they had a problem so would like to meet him again later.

Ed and Ana left the garden, covering once again the entrance to the tunnels behind them.

They walked back to the hotel; sure enough it was only late morning.

They had black tea with milk and a late breakfast of corn flakes with milk, eggs and bread and sweet cakes and orange juice. They were both very hungry.

Ed took out some maps of the area and began scrutinising them.

“I can't work this out at all,” he said, “whichever way we went and wherever we came out on the hillside, we ought to have been able to see Luxor and the Temples and we should have found the road. And I don't know why there weren't any boats. There aren't any towns that size for miles”

He decided to walk the short distance from the hotel towards the river. Ana said that she wanted to take a rest so he went alone.

Ed saw everything was as as it should be. There was the river, the ferry and, on the East Bank, he could see the cruise boats and Luxor town along with its Temple and tall lush hotels. Plenty of people about too, as usual, carrying on their daily business, taxies and trucks, donkeys pulling carts.

Puzzled still, he went back to the hotel.

Ana said that Ayman had phoned her to say that Youssef would pick them up at six o'clock.

“I've been thinking about what that guy said. You know when he pointed and said Oo – are - set?

“Well there's nowhere here called that and I asked the manager at reception if he knew anyone called that or any place and he said no. But he said that centuries ago the old place was called Waset even before it was called Thebes.”

“I looked it up and he's right but that was four thousand years ago, in the time of Pharaohs Senusret the First and Amenemhat the Second.”

Ah, another Hat, I thought, maybe an ancestor. Remember dear reader, that I had also heard of a woman Pharaoh called Hatshepsut, who also had a temple built here.

Ana continued: “The books say they were Twelfth dynasty, after Mentuhotep the Second, Eleventh dynasty. They'd had a war with the North which lasted for about fifty years and then many of the Nomes were united. The town was called Waset. Waset was a Goddess.”

“Maybe what we saw was some sort of touristy replica or something, but it must be a huge site. We''ll ask Ayman about it this evening,” said Ed.

“Pretty weird. I'm going to ask Ayman if we can go back; we'll cross the river and find out what's going on,” said Ed.

 

Song (AI) The River of Life by Alun Buffry

 AI produced version of a song from my poem "The River of Life"  

I would welcome any human being that can produce a better version of these words to music

River of Life!

Whether we laugh, or whether we cry,

the river of life goes rushing by,

down the hills and mountain sides,

into valleys, long and wide,

towards the ocean that is its goal,

it's journey travelled by our soul.

When I was but a little boy,

the river rippled and dashed with joy,

and as I grew and longed to learn,

the river for the ocean yearned.

As young man travelled round the world,

the river twisted, turned and twirled,

eager to find it's resting place,

eager to travel in time and space.

And as the seeking man grew older,

the river found the bigger boulders,

but on it travelled without care,

it knew it's destiny's not there.

The rushing water's now quite slow,

the river old has nothing to show,

it's happiness is calm and deep,

as old man takes his final sleep.

The ocean that is never ending,

is to the sky it's waters lending,

to rain again on mountain top,

to make sure life's rivers never stop.

The rivers message lies in this

Ocean of Mercy, Peace and Bliss

The River Aru in Kashmir, where I wrote these words in 1981

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