An idea, a thought, an anecdote, a story or a poem a day!

To hug, or be hugged,  It is a nice feeling, for most of us.  Hugging someone we love,  a child, a parent, a sibling, a friend, and a lover, because we love them. WE want them to know, we are here, we are for them, that it is OK.  Then hugging ourselves, when happy, or worried, or just cold.  To assure ourselves that it will be OK.  Then hugging a tree! an environmentalist's , a conservationist's weapon in front of  greedy developers,  builder's bulldozers! A tradition of hugging a tree, started as a  Chipko  movement, by a tribal lady in north India, she stood there to front a developer, hugging a tree, trying to save it from getting uprooted,  Yes, hugging a tree, to tell it, that we are here that it will be OK? Then hugging a tree to get strength from it, to connect with nature! To know that it is here, for us, and that it will be OK!   

Someone sent me a two liner about life and those we value  in our life. Some people are in our life and due to those people,  life is worth living,  The value that we put in our  relationships, And this gratitude, that we feel,  there is a need to express this feeling. There is a need to translate this sentiment into words  There is a need to say to someone  what we feel in our bones,  yes, and to say,  Life is worth living because of you.  (Wedding anniversary today)