May 12, 2021
The Wonders of a Solar Eclipse, Yakima County, WA state...
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The Wonders of a Solar Eclipse, Yakima County, WA state...
The wonderful array of Candy Tuft Flowers...Yakima County, WA state---
For my Nani, my grandmother...may you rest in peace...
This post is dedicated to my beautiful grandmother (pictured in her Sari on Christmas Day 2015) who found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. She always wanted to visit WA state in America, but knew that she wouldn’t be able to leave her birthplace in India. I suppose you could say she went by the old adage, “Home is where the heart is.”
So, as I live life, I hope that she is smiling at me from heaven...telling me to smile at her back, knowing that despite her absence here on Earth, her presence in heaven makes her life all the more divine.
“A Butterfly in the Spring”---Yakima County, WA
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”---Maya Angelou
Have a wonderful Sunday everyone, one of great transformation! :)
“Simply Carrots and Brussels sprout”---Yakima County, WA state
I hope you eat your vegetables everyone! May they forevermore be organic!
Nothing Gold Can Stay---Taken at Franklin Park, Yakima County, WA state...
“Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf, So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day Nothing gold can stay.”
---Robert Frost
“A Graduating Senior” --- Yakima County, WA state
Hi my wonderful friends / followers on Tumblr ... I just wanted to let you know that despite all the hardships 2020 brought with it, I hope that failure does not determine your destiny and that you can rise to the challenge in 2021, if you think it does!
As a senior in college at Central Washington University, I will be graduating soon with a Bachelor's degree in Biology. After the pandemic of the corona-virus hit our distraught nation, and the world, one of the more fascinating questions in everyone's mind was, "what will be the cure?," Or "who will come up with the vaccine to alleviate COVID- 19? " This made me think of something Albert Einstein, the great and noble scientist, who once said, 'the important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. 'With a vaccine now underway for saving the lives of millions of potential victims of the virus, I have been inspired to apply for Pharmacy School in the hopes of furthering my own knowledge and insight into what it takes to truly make cures happen. So if there is anything you can do to change the world, start with yourself ... and always believe! I know that my path won't be easy, but if there is anything I have learned from my own failures and mistakes, it is that these failures can't determine my destiny and future goals! All the best to you, as I think I may need it too! :)
--- Alisha Barik