This is a quick update on the previous post, This is the End. The title was poorly chosen. What I should have written was that some changes are due after 23 years of the blog.
A few readers have very kindly left supportive comments letting me know that they’d be happy to contribute. I am delighted. One may ask, why involve money? The happy fact is that I am very comfortably off. As it happens, I have all that I need or even want, and I am not responsible for anyone. Except that I am, by my nature, moved to help those whom I can.
I regularly give to charity. In fact, a family member does the giving because he knows where and how to help, and I settle the account at the end of the year. But every now and then, I come across requests for help from people in my residential complex (it’s huge). I am fortunate that I have the ability to give.
It occurred to me that I should request my readers who I do believe are well off to drop me a buck or two if they found my posts of some value. I will use the proceeds to help those in need. Every bit matters when one is in dire need.
I don’t appreciate people moralizing and I won’t do it. If it sounds like moralizing, then I beg your pardon.
I asked a couple of friends for advice on how to go about it. The mechanism had to be simple for my readers in India and in the US. I see that I have quite a few readers from the UK and from China as well.
As I am very busy for the next couple of weeks, I will put off the changes. For now, the usual erratic schedule of posts will continue. Thanks again for the encouraging comments on the previous post. You have my gratitude.
Image at the top of the post shows a few streets in the Evergreen area of south San Jose, CA, where I spend a few weeks every year. Click on the image to embiggen it in a new tab.
I love the street names. You know why: I love music.
The names in that little segment of the map include composers: Enesco, Piccini, Brahms, Paganini, Sibelius, Mozart, and Chopin are present. Then you have moods: tranquility, mirth, revelry, solace. And dramas: Ophelia, Othello, Rigoletto.
An area marked out with a green pin is Asana Park. The word is Sanskrit meaning a posture for yoga.
I love the sentiment conveyed by the word “solace.” Let’s listen to a Scott Joplin tune titled “Solace.” Joplin’s tunes provided the soundtrack for that excellent movie The Sting starring Robert Redford and Paul Newman.
Why not a two-fer! One for the road, eh? The Beatles’ Penny Lane it shall be.
Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.
