THE SHARED SILENCE
The sun has a rendezvous with the moon
But the moon is not there, and the sun waits
Down here, where it is often each man for his own true love
Everyone must do the same
The moon is there, the moon is there
The moon is there, but the sun does not see her
To find her, night is needed
Night is needed, but the sun does not know this—and keeps on shining
The sun has a rendezvous with the moon
But the moon is not there, and the sun waits.
"Le soleil a rendez-vous avec la lune
Mais la lune n'est pas là et le soleil attend
Ici-bas, souvent chacun pour sa chacune
Chacun doit en faire autant
La lune est là, la lune est là
La lune est là, mais le soleil ne la voit pas
Pour la trouver, il faut la nuit
Il faut la nuit mais le soleil ne le sait pas et toujours luit
Le soleil a rendez-vous avec la lune
Mais la lune n'est pas là et le soleil attend."
Quiet flows the dawn
and with the dawn flows the quiet river.
The river is neither aware of destiny,
nor does she know that time moves
and makes her move.
Stories are born on her banks and left unread.
Like destiny it's not in her to pause.
The cause and the effect flow as one single stream with her.
You may think of loss or gain
but in her flow they are one
because she knows, she must flow.
Some call her mother and stand on her shore;
pleading her to speak.
some call her divinity
and place her in a shrine.
She will flow at her own pace,
in abundance, never in need of joy or sorrow,
Her flow is unstoppable.
But not ignorant of your life ,its needs and deeds.
Until she comes in sight of the sea
her journey long and forlorn.
Do not forsake her
when the sky thunders and in fear
she breaks her bounds.
Take her waters to flow into canals;
help her reach the far out lands that need her
and she'll bless you before she follows
her destined path to the sea.
Two antique lanterns in hand
Method: Wash and roughly chop the Strawberries
. Blend them roughly in a blender / Mixer. Measure the pulp, add this in a non stick huge pan. Add to it equal quantity of sugar . You may add a little 2 tbsp of water in the mixer, and add this in the pan. Squeeze 1/2 a lemon, Cook the mixture , stirring well, till it thickens to a Jam point. To check, the Jam point, add 1/2 a spoon of the cooked mixture on a steel plate, then tilt it a little. If the mixture doesn’t run down like liquid, then the jam point is achieved. The mixture should just move a little like a thick cooked gravy. Then touch the cooked jam mixture with your pointer finger, touch it with your thumb, bring the fingers apart, repeatedly bring them together and apart, you’ll see the jam as a thick string. That’s the Jam Point. Put off the gas, cover the pan with a thin , clean , kitchen cloth, ( don’t cover with a lid, as it’ll form moisture on the inner side of the lid, and fall into the cooked jam) This will spoil the jam soon. After the cooked mixture / jam cools, put this in clean dry bottles, and store in the fridge ( as we haven’t added preservatives, colors or Pectin) My jam remains in the fridge for more than a year . Enjoy 
