Sometimes, you feel the need to write. There could be a number of reasons...ominously building up through the day...sneaking up your being, waiting for now.
I begin from the sombre dusk...end at the bright morning.
Took to my usual route in the evening where I mostly run, sometimes walk. It was the walk today. The path leading to this route in the wilderness has a dog since yesterday. A dead dog. It's a German Shepherd, not older than 4 to 5 months; un-collared; I'm sure bounding playfully till it died (I wonder how, where and when); beginning to decompose rapidly; and beginning to wither away surprisingly fast...it's once beautiful fur already assuming the downy texture, ready to mingle with the brown of earth. A life ended. I walked on. And soon noticed it had suddenly turned dark. Clouds...a faint drizzle and the light above playing magic on the lush beneath.
Then it poured. I was far from home. Drenched to my bone, I was surprised I was shivering as I finally reached my door. The rain abruptly abated too...as if on cue. Dry clothes thrown on and not a minute wasted to key-in what I do now...thinking of ends and beginnings.
This afternoon in contrast then, was a beginning...of the experiment I've referred to before, an attempt at a beginning of a different kind. A nudge to bring to life dormant seeds. Seeds that didn't germinate easily/ at all for me.
It's called Priming. There are numerous methods, for instance beans work well with 'Scarification', where the seed is scarred by rubbing it against sand paper; or teak-wood growers often throw seeds in boiling water for a couple of hours before they put them to germinate. I've attempted two methods and couldn't attempt the third for want of PEG 6000 (that's polyethylene glycol). So basically I've dunked the seeds in two separate containers, one containing RO water and the other RO water with common salt. I'd let them be for 24 hours and then put them in grow-plugs to see if they germinate faster or at all.
The idea is based on the premise that the ensuing osmotic activity will have a direct bearing on the mitotic activity (cell-division) as well as the start & synchronisation of germination.
Bringing forth a new life I guess, requires much more work and knowledge than ending it. Why else, just when you've merely typed 'how to', would the Google Search promptly suggest 'how to get pregnant' as its very second entry!!! (how to kiss, is incidentally the first...but I guess that's a beginning too).
Earlier, in the morning as I made to office in the nick of time, I couldn't but help notice a subtle seductive scent of some flower, just at the entrance to the building. Investigations led to
People here call it 'Kaurav-Pandav'. A very dear friend informs, it's called the Passion Flower. I simply found it beautiful and alive!!!
And in the end, I come to the start of the day. Dawn found me inside the green-house. All seemed good. And this felt like a magical circle (of life).
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