The meandering hill side roads are emblatic of the tea country of central Sri Lanka.  Here among the greenish plantations lies a cooling breath of fresh air from the humid heat of the lowlands.  Finding a beautiful oasis of fresh springs flowing into refreshing waterfalls is an easy task.  But my residence with my family in the small town of Deniyaya was one that would open the door on my trip to the motherland.  For after the interactions with long lost loves often do we feel our heart swell to it's greatest size.  

From family springs the rejuvination of forgotten songs of yester year and new songs of hopes for our mutual future.  I travelled with my niece and my cousin to the top of a nearby hill which housed the temple my father used to visit everyday as a child.  Sitting in front of the people of my father's past made my feeling of ownership of this place grow.  As my niece pulled the rope to ring the bell of the monastery I could imagine myself doing the same in my childhood on visits here. Those visits brief memories of fun cricket matches and making treks to nearby places of interest.  This is how the circle of life is both continued and completed, when past meets a future bursting with the aspirations of combined hope.

I saw an aspect of my greatest hope for Sri Lanka in the nearby town of Viharahena where many Tamils had found a home among the Singhalese majority.  Indeed we live in a time of opportunity as a nation but only if we all make opportunity for all a foremost goal.  Years of war ravage the hearts and minds of many but to heal these wounds takes the effort of all with a determination to put good thoughts into good action.  We must realize that good actions are the only statues that the next generation can gaze at in awe.  For peace is truly an awe inspiring thing that is the building block of any great home, country or society.  If we can spread the simple values of giving to former strangers or enemies can we say with pride that we are justified in calling them friends.  

The fire of hatred still burns bright and many acts of weak minded people have scarred our nation.  But a new day of mutual respect may have dawned on our great nation.  It is not something to be squandered but cherished, even worshipped as our new gleaming future, our childrens new birthright.  No matter if you be Hindu, Burgher, Buddhist or Muslim, Tamil or Any other faction of the Rainbow of Lanka you must accept that our responsibility is to our youth.  We can not be forgiven for not making sacrifices now, for failure in the future shall be fueled  by simple men making simple choices.  For those that truly have an honourable heart and good intention for Sri Lanka, please always place all in your heart as one would place your family. And as my niece rings the bell, may we arise in the morning with a feeling of love and kindness, like a fresh waterfall cleanses the dirt of dischord and replaces it with showers of joy.

To me she will always be too far away unless her hand is in mine.  Even in a crowded room my gaze never wanders from her beauty.  But she did not win my heart without first finding a home forever in it.  She did it with the sparkle of joy in her eyes, and how she magically makes everyone around her joyous as well.  Her smile is so bright that it lights up any gloom that lingers in my mind.  When I hear her laugh from words I lovingly send to her ear I am triumphant.  When she puts her hand in my mine I am the king of the world, who can conquer any enemy that may come against us.  I see her greater than me but my twin at the same time, because her heart and mind are so close to mine.  I can never ever hate her, because the sacrifice and courage to love me has caused her pain.  If I lost her I understand it is because she deserve only the greatest man in this universe, and i am a man of admitted weakness.  I admit my weakness to her and she hopes for me greatness, so great is her love and friendship to me.  So I dream of being closer to her and at this moment I do feel her there.  Even though I can not see her with my eyes or hear her voice, when I close my eyes I can see her beautiful face, and even in sleep or awakedness i feel her in my heart wishing me love.  I know I have betrayed her trust and that injury plagues me, but with each day I pray to God for the strength to be the man that wins her respect and love.  When she comes closer, may I run to her and put her in my arms and whisper "Dearest Annjel, do not fear, I am your promised love from God Almighty.  I will fight any evil against you so that you may never cry again.  You are my best friend, the one that drives my tears away.  Let us be ear others destiny in heavens eyes.

The Rural Alberta Advantage - "Edmonton"

What'll I do if you never wanna come back
Sittin in a city that is always on the attack
What'll I do if you never want me back
Come with me come back we'll live again
In Edmonton

And what if I'm only satisfied when I'm at home
Sittin in a city that'll never let me go
What if I'm only satisfied when I'm at home
In Edmonton

What'll I do if you never find me again
Sittin in a Province a million miles from my friends
What'll I do if you never want me again
Come with me come back we'll live again
In Edmonton

What if I'm only satisfied when I'm at home
Sittin in a city that'll never let me go
What if I'm only satisfied when I'm alone

Late at night
Sink your heart into mine
And I will never try
As you forget your northern lights

Late at night
Sync your hearbeat to mine
I will never try
To forget your northern lights

Gone away again
From this Alberta pen
And I will never try
To forget your northern eyes

Gone away again
From this Alberta pen
And I will never try
To forget your northern eyes

Baby then again
Under the lights at the Leg
And we will burn our eyes
Seeking out these purple nights

Baby then again
Under the lights at the Leg
In Edmonton

Dedicated to Dinesh Witharana, Wing Witharana, and Ann Jaimi Alexander, Bright Stars in my Night's Sky

Life is the journey of the perfect circle, we often don't realize the strokes that make the curve, but God does.  He recognizes that to create life, we must accept death, to endure the suffering, a multitude is always better than a single soul.  That his choice to let you suffer was not his choice, but Yours.  You choose to suffer so that we can have joy forever after.  We are not his children but his brothers and sisters.  He treats us with perfect justice because it was we who told him "Please give us this pain so that we may live again in our sons and daughters"  He is neither our Father or Mother but the child waiting in earnest to see their beloved parent that they once thought was lost.  When death greats us we will see God's face and it will simply be us, our perfect twin, separated from birth who will embrace us.  Your twin will show you the day you chose to suffer long before your birth, but you will find that at that moment when time began, at that Big Bang, When darkness turned to light.  In that moment when your twin asked, "will you suffer for me?" there was not one soul that cried "Yes" but an infinite multitude. 

Because we started as light, trilllions of beams of light that traveled through space and time to create heaven and earth. And we shed tears of joy at our birth, the birth of the universe, because we saw how much brighter our lights would shine, we saw the day when the circle would be formed.  And at that day when our universe ends we did not weep, we simply said.  "Join with me my brothers and sisters, mothers and daughters, fathers and sons and let us do what we once thought was impossible, let us be Gods and create a new universe for ours is dying.  Let us make an even more perfect circle.  Let us create this heaven for ourselves", And so the circle was unbroken.  It was filled with only light, the darkness was vanquished.  Trilllions of souls lighting a perfect universe. 

But then we saw...the possibility, the dreams possible, the larger circle, the greater good, the joy of creation.  What if we tried again to give birth to our more perfect twin?  Let us make a universe again, let us make this child better than even we.  Like a loving mother and father we can make this nothing into a dot in the exact center of us, and that dot will become a Circle, and that circle will grow until it is our perfect twin, but then that twin will go places we can only have dreamed, discovers havens that we have only prayed for.  That twin will become larger than we could ever have imagined.  And so is life, every parent wishing for their child, the selfless choice to accept the burden of suffering so that one day our sons' and daughters' joy will be greater than anything felt by them.  So God suffers for us, so that we may learn, and though we cry for God like one cries for their Mother. God hears all and prays that when we meet in heaven, we will understand that our suffering was in order to save not only all mankind but to save God himself.  Because God is You.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Trust in the LORD with all your heart,
and do not lean on your own understanding.
In all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will make straight your paths.
Proverbs 3:5-6

The phrase comes from the third verse of the Book of Genesis. In the King James Bible, it reads:

1:1 - In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

1:2 - And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

1:3 - And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

1:4 - And God saw the light, and it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

Circle

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Circle illustration showing a radius, a diameter, the centre and the circumference

Tycho crater, one of many examples of circles that arise in nature.

A circle is a simple shape of Euclidean geometry consisting of the set of points in a plane that are a given distance from a given point, the centre. The distance between any of the points and the centre is called the radius.

Circles are simple closed curves which divide the plane into two regions: an interior and an exterior. In everyday use, the term "circle" may be used interchangeably to refer to either the boundary of the figure, or to the whole figure including its interior; in strict technical usage, the circle is the former and the latter is called a disk.

A circle is a special ellipse in which the two foci are coincident and the eccentricity is 0. Circles are conic sections attained when a right circular cone is intersected by a plane perpendicular to the axis of the cone.
 

The word "circle" derives from the Greek, kirkos "a circle," from the base ker- which means to turn or bend. The origins of the words "circus" and "circuit" are closely related.

The circle has been known since before the beginning of recorded history. Natural circles would have been observed, such as the Moon, Sun, and a short plant stalk blowing in the wind on sand, which forms a circle shape in the sand. The circle is the basis for the wheel, which, with related inventions such as gears, makes much of modern civilization possible. In mathematics, the study of the circle has helped inspire the development of geometry, astronomy, and calculus.

Early science, particularly geometry and astrology and astronomy, was connected to the divine for most medieval scholars, and many believed that there was something intrinsically "divine" or "perfect" that could be found in circles

 

Her whole being shines and I am blinded
My love grows when looking at her light
She could have done most anything without me minding

So is my wonderment at something so bright

My soul aches to woo her, to make her smile
So I pray my time in the brightness lasts
Just to live in love a little  while

To my Annjel whom I love so much!

 

The stars lean down to kiss you
And I lie awake and miss you
Pour me a heavy dose of atmosphere

'Cause I'll doze off safe and soundly
But I'll miss your arms around me
I'd send a postcard to you, dear
'Cause I wish you were here

I'll watch the night turn light-blue
But it's not the same without you
Because it takes two to whisper quietly

The silence isn't so bad
'Til I look at my hands and feel sad
'Cause the spaces between my fingers
Are right where yours fit perfectly

I'll find repose in new ways
Though I haven't slept in two days
'Cause cold nostalgia
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Chills me to the bone

But drenched in vanilla twilight
I'll sit on the front porch all night
Waist-deep in thought because
When I think of you I don't feel so alone

I don't feel so alone, I don't feel so alone

As many times as I blink
I'll think of you tonight
I'll think of you tonight

When violet eyes get brighter
And heavy wings grow lighter
I'll taste the sky and feel alive again

And I'll forget the world that I knew
But I swear I won't forget you
Oh, if my voice could reach
Back through the past
I'd whisper in your ear
Oh darling, I wish you were here


© OCEAN CITY PARK;

Dina the angel of learning watched as the crescent moon revealed itself in the early evening.  So much preparation was needed to be done before the Mass of Christ and this time of day was always a reminder of such.  Another day of brightness for Dina as she had oversaw a birth and helped save the struggling child with a surge of her heavenly touch.  If anything Dina was an angel who loved children, how they soaked up the world, being the Angel of Learning made it so. The sky appeared to be the color of a ripe grapefruit and from it Dina observed her two brothers Gabriel and Michael descending.  The twilight moon was starting to glisten as Michael spoke "Your work with the child this morn was amazing Dina, He is pleased indeed." She smiled at them both and said "You know that his love of the children makes them so powerful to all of us, our love of them is full."  Gabriel nodded in agreement and added "Indeed, He gave preference to the love of good over the remembrance of my Lord until the sun disappears into the curtain of darkness" Dina winked at Gabriel "Indeed dear brothers, let us send us on our search for knowledge to seek his guidance in the matter of the children"  And with wings unfurled the three angels headed up towards the crescent moon in the now darkened sky, leaving not a trace of their presence in the world below.



"Heaven From Here"

Know no fear I'll still be here tomorrow
Bend my ear I'm not gonna go away
You are love so why do you shed a tear
Know no fear you will see heaven from here

I'll shelter you make it alright to cry
And you'll help too cos the faith in myself
Has run dry
We are love and I just wanna hold you near
Know no fear we will see heaven from here

I see real love in your eyes
And it fills me up when you start to cry

I just wanna hold you near
We will see heaven from here

Well it all seems out of reach
I will take the blame if it keeps the peace
My shelf life's short
Wish they'd make it more easy to follow
And I've been caught with nothing but
Love on my mind
We are love don't let it fall on deaf ears
Now it's clear we have seen heaven from here