PURNAMIDAM - mindlessly mindful

Dance with Me Oh Stars!! A million chances, speak a million voices. In my head they bounce rampant, like elephants blowing trumpets. Never have I seen a moon so pink, and an ocean in the sink. So Let me just go on a walk, on the path you chalked, with yellow skies.  To the loneliest piers Come sit and watch the skies dance. The stars zonked, the fish smile, and crabs bark. On the loneliest docks, it never gets loud. They weren't all so proud,  of the silence who never shuts its mouth. But I Am with you, I think I am! As I turn my face,  towards the dim lamp.

A few days back i went to a studio where children were modelling. After watching kids in advertisement and in movies I shouldn't have been amazed and surprised of the fact that children can also be the subject of photo shoots. The photographer was a bit annoying though asking the kids to pose in various manners. And the only words he had to encourage those kids were, ‘awesome' 'beautiful child' 'great pose'. He uttered the word awesome, about a thousand times, and hey all children ARE! nothing but beautiful!! Seriously, even the parents had started giving instructions to their respective child. Poor children!! One incident that I must share though. There was a girl about 10 or 11 yrs old. The kind of poses she was giving, she would have easily overthrown Tyra Banks. The photographer asked her, after a while to stop posing like that and act her age, like a 10 yr old. Looking at her blank expression, I really wonder, if ...