 Good morning. Dear viewers, this is Tulip welcoming you to my show, Coffee Time. And this is a lovely morning in Amherst. Trust me, you don't want to sleep, but wake up with your coffee and tea and enjoy the day. I don't want to lose a single moment of it. These glorious warm summer days and the blue sky and the breeze and the rabbits. Oh, not the bear though. I don't want that. So the song I was singing is opening lines of a Tagore song which speaks of doors being opened by the sunrise in the morning. And you know what? My phone on which I am recording the blessed phone, smartphone that's on the branch of a tree because I don't have an iPod with me. And it's a lesson I have learned from a friend who told me what you need usually is around you. So when you need something, you want to make something, look for all the materials around you in your house, within the boundary you move each and every day. And if you don't have them, then you can go farther away and visit shops if needed. And that was one of the most valuable lessons I have learned in my days from my friend. In these times of the COVID-19, I often think of her and how we have learned as a whole world to put things together to become creative. Schools have learned all of a sudden within hours to be holding classes online. To a remarkable graduation days, all the goings early in the morning to work place have come to eight o'clock Zoom meetings. But the world is going, it hasn't stopped. There might be slower and faster days and days in between but we have not stopped because we have learned to carry on with what we have. And perhaps anything that comes with a downsize and we think this is really bad is not that bad at all. There is a lesson to be learned in everything that happens or does not happen at all. So keep in mind that we can be resilient. In fact, we have to be resilient. Life is not a teacher that pampers you all the time. It gives you hard lessons. Life is tough love. Either you survive or you go. So let's read a few lines from Kahleil Gibran who speaks of sorrow and joy. As he says, your joy is your sorrow and must. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. The deeper that sorrow curves into your being, the more joy you can contain. It's not the cup that holds your wine, the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven. And it's not the loot that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives. When we sing, when we write poetry, when we love, there is always a silence before and after and we rise in between. Just as the sun is coming up now after the night, we wake up from the beds of nothingness and we go to the world of nothingness. And I would like to sing another piece from Chakur who speaks of love that's seen in the eyes. You see, when you look at life, between what we have and what we have not, we see life through his eyes. So to life, let's sing a song. And with that I'll be saying goodbye still. We'll meet again in one of this another summer day. For me there and thank you to Amherst Media and its great team for which I can do these shows no matter where I am. Special thanks to Faith Gregory who is awesome kind and does all the editing for me now. Thank you.