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We're having a beautiful October. The unseasonably warm weather and brilliant autumnal colors are like an unexpected gift and will hopefully make it easier to bear the cold and snow that lies just around the corner.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results
of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important,
have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

~ Steve Jobs

I came across this wonderful YouTube video about the Sivananda ashram at Neyyar Dam in Kerala, India where I stayed in early 2008. After seeing it, I am feeling very nostalgic about my travels in India.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVSPokUH_Tg

An altered look about the hills;

A Tyrian light the village fills;

A wider sunrise in the dawn;

A deeper twilight on the lawn;

A print of a vermillion foot;

A purple finger on the slope;

A flippant fly upon the pane;

A spider at his trade again;

An added strut in chanticlear;

A flower expected everywhere;

An axe shrill singing in the woods;

Fern-odors on untravelled roads, --

All this, and more I cannot tell,

A furtive look you know as well,

And Nicodemus' mystery

Receives its annual reply.

This weekend will bring our first seventy-degree temperatures in the Chicagoland area since last year. Although the weathermen are also forecasting rain, I am so happy that the weather is finally starting to warm up, that I think I will be tempted to go out and dance in the rain. It has been a long winter and I look foward to walking outside again and communing with the birds, the trees, flowers and all the other natural wonders that flourish in the Spring.

On a somewhat related note, here's a link to one of my favorite YouTube vidoes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9frmZcFUgdA&feature=related