Save earth @ Home

One of the issues that has always been close to my heart is Environment protection. I am always on the  look out for new ways to encourage both myself and others to do that little extra that can save our earth in any way. Recently a friend  of mine came home with a novel crafty idea from her work place. She had been working in a laboratory for a few months. As in all other labs one of the major wastes generated includes catalogs. Piles and piles of these colorful books are bought every year and many more come free whenever a company approaches the laboratory for sales of instruments and apparatus. Well, the idea that she brought can definitely  use not just catalogs but also any type of hard bind books like old magazines. One could also use paper backs once you have bound them with a not-so-little needle and little thick string.  I hope some of you may try this out to deck up your homes and workplace in this colorful eco-friendly manner.

              

 

             
                                                 


                                     

The bonus is that there is no cost of expenditure and yet you will in your own great way contribute to saving the earth a little paper waste.

Skies of Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.  ~G.K. Chesterton

And they were canopied by the blue sky,So cloudless, clear, and purely beautiful,That God alone was to be seen in Heaven.- Lord Byron

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. 

- Blaise Pascal

The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.  The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.  - Felix Adler

That first day of my life...

I was getting bored. There was nothing left to do at all. I had done all my homework and I had read all my lessons for the day. Twice. Mother had almost finished with the chores for the day but she wouldn't be available for the next two or three hours. Lazily I made way to the drawing room. No, there wasn't anything interesting there. Except for a television and an empty vase. For a few minutes I speculated the probability of finding fresh flowers and decking up the vases. But...where would I find the flowers of my choice at that time of the day? It was almost noon and I had heard mother often say that cutting flowers at that particular time might retard the plant's growth. And that just put the final curtain on the idea.  More sighs. Nothing killed me more than boredom, and lack of things to do. Not even pain.