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Even in poverty ~ with passion and perseverance ~
a lot can be accomplished.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948

January 26 is Republic Day in India
~ A day the whole world celebrates
the power of non-violent civil disobedience.

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Permit me to synchronize that with
a poor artist's rich sunflowers
on a postcard my daughter sent from Amsterdam some time ago.
You don't need a lot of money to create something beautiful.
In fact you might be very poor financially.
You might not ever make a living at what you do best.

Vincent van Gogh

Sunflowers, repetition of the 4th version (yellow background)
Oil on canvas, 95 × 73 cm
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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And a winter field clipped of its corn
looking "like a man's badly shaved beard"*
might be where power waits under a white winter sky
that will come to life under the heat of the summer sun.
Just a plow, soil, seed, sun, rain ~
and a new field of corn will rise up ~
Just like that.

With the right combination of elements
an impossible alchemy is possible.

Golden.

Don't forget it.
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* simile borrowed from Guy de Maupassant's Miss Harriett
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