All in a garden !

This collection of photographs yesterday is from the front of our cottage.

From tender leaves to tendril, colourful foliage, flowers and blossoms ready to become mango fruits...all in a small area in a garden!

The corona infection continues to frighten us and keep us in suspense about what awaits us! It looks like that the focus globally is on controlling its spread and limiting its death instinct. 

Think of the two sides of coin. On one side millions are at risk of infection and thousands might lose their lives. On the other side millions are out of job, displaced in countries other than theirs, living stressfully not knowing how they would hold their lives together with diminishing resources.

The sight of hundreds waiting in scorching sun to collect a meal packet in the outskirts of New Delhi said it all about the reality of the other side of the story of COVED 19 pandemic. 

The above photographs made me think how they thrive in this season when the day temperature has soared higher than expected for April. They survive because they are conditioned to adapt to different situations.

For about two decades the global economy has been adapting to the market driven forces of investment, profit, competition, extravagance and indulgence in luxuries of lives. Those who have plenty have made more for themselves during this period and those who do not have stay in the margins, living from the meagre social benefits passed on to them. It looks like that the economic planning has been for a 'trickle down' effect to improve the cause of those who are disadvantaged, which has happened in a limited way.

We need now a new orientation to live in scarce times. 

There is an accountability which rest of us have towards those who do not have. How are we to adapt to live in harsh circumstances, where resources would be limited even for the well to do to live!

Plants live sharing with each other the soil resources. 

Will humans consider this philosophy even though the leadership of the super powers, America and China speak of hyper-nationalism as their right.

The civil society is restless by living with this disparity between those who prosper and those who feel depleted and used. 

The 'feeling quotient' of the political leadership towards those who have to depend on the state resources for one meal a day, has been least commendable. 

During difficult times, let us feel so that we allow ourselves to be touched and moved. 

It was a boy with fives loaves and two fish, who gave his meal to Jesus of Nazareth so that He could bless and use it for feeding the five thousand people.

What I have is not mine! What do I have except what is given to me!

Plants share the soil resources.

Humans too are meant to live sharing their resources between themselves. 

M.C.Mathew(text and photo)