My first blog entry.

Not sure yet what I’d like to use this for… Daily thoughts, ideas, stories, quotes, poems and art stuff etc…? I hope maybe, it’ll be a collection of things that inspire me or make my day.

I originally thought of calling this blog gemjar. But I guess, since everything else is titled ewehouse, I thought, well, just go along with it; it’s easier to remember.

The longer I live, the more I realize how little I know. Like I just got to know that a ‘Fieldfare’ is a type of bird after coming across this poem:

Fieldfare by Julian Kornhauser

It kept coming several days in a row
landing on the same bush of wild rose.
It strolled among rooks
like a newcomer from the underworld.
We didn't know its name then,
so we checked in the Atlas of Birds.
When we identified it at last
between twitters and thrushes,
it flew off and never came back.
Its hollow name, a title to glory,
hung on a branch like a snowflake.


















So I like collecting viewpoints from all over. It’s great to see thoughts that have probably taken someone years to verbalise so easily accessible at a glance. I came across another one of those refreshing thoughts today. It’s from this book titled, ‘Gardening the Soul - Soothing Seasonal Thoughts for Jaded Souls’ by Sister Stan. I pick it up every once a while and it never fails to lift my spirits somehow!

‘At times, helping happens simply in the way of things. It’s not something we really think about, merely the instinctive response of an open heart. Caring is a reflex. Someone slips, your arm goes out. A car is in a ditch, you join the others and push. It all seems natural and appropriate. This is because an instinctive generosity of spirit is working in us. Not always, of course, but when it is there and we respond to it, we feel great.’

Real goodness is always simple. Simplicity is so attractive and so profitable that it is strange that so few people are really simple. – Leo Tolstoy

It’s a gift to be simple!