How polite is too polite?

Had so much fun 'assembling' this image, dagger and all. Canva is wonderful!

There's this couplet (doha) by Kabir Das that I love very much and think about often:

बुरा जो देखन मैं चला, बुरा न मिलिया कोय |

जो दिल खोजा आपना, मुझसे बुरा न कोय ||

I set out looking for evil to chide,

Found it when I looked inside.

Winayaka

 Rehashed an old one

Lofty, loftier, loftiest

 

Had a whole lot of fun experimenting with this one.

'Before sunset' is among the loveliesssssst things I've ever watched and making this reminded me of this exchange from the movie:

Jesse: Have you ever spent time with monks or nuns? 

[...]

I was shocked - I expected them to be all glowering and stern but they weren't - they were quick to laugh and really easy to be around, very attuned to everything. They're not trying to hustle anybody, they're not trying to accomplish anything, they are trying to live and die in peace and be close with God or whatever part of them they feel is eternal - it's so refreshing to be around. You realize that the bulk of people that you meet are trying to get somewhere better, make a little more jack, get a little more respect, have more people admire them...it's exhausting.

Celine: Yeah, no kidding.

Jesse: And it's exhausting to be one of those people yourself. I'm at a monastery, greedy to be a little more spiritual, "I want to be a better person". You can't escape.

Free will

 

Man proposes, dog disposes

Reciprocity

 

Creator

 

Little heretic's gonna lose an eye to retributive poking

Alphabet soup

 

Optics

The cardinal sin of texting

 

Sutta pazham, sudaadha pazham

 

Self-reflection

 

Advice

 

Nostalgia for the present

 

Turing test

 

(Mis)fortune-telling

I had a tonnn of fun making this 😬 Thank goodness for makebeliefscomix.com ♥️

Soor(y)a sum(mer)haaram

Add 'everyone stays at home all day (to flatten the curve)' into the mix, and you get bloody murder.

Presence over presents

This V-Day, presence over presents

Making this reminded me of these lines from Ogden Nash's That reminds me:

Just imagine yourself seated on a shadowy terrace,

And beside you is a girl who stirs you more strangely than an heiress,

It is a summer evening at its most superb,

And the moonlight reminds you that To Love is an active verb.

And your hand clasps hers, which rests there without shrinking,

And after a silence fraught with romance you ask her what she is thinking,

And she starts and returns from the moon-washed distances to the shadowy veranda,

And says, Oh I was wondering how many bamboo shoots a day it takes to feed a baby Giant Panda.

[...]

It isn’t that nothing is sacred to them, it’s just that at the Sacred Moment they are always thinking of something else.

Zentrist

Seriously though, what ever happened to balance?

Eerie recommendations ft. Google

Eerie recommendations ft. Google

I've been wanting to learn to make comics digitally, but haven't yet figured it out. Meanwhile, I made this using the amazing Makebeliefscomix (https://www.makebeliefscomix.com/)