With Care

We all are so obsessed with ourselves that we tend to overlook ourselves considering a part of us being alien to us and that is what I term as garbage. Garbage is a personification of the part of ourselves we no longer desire and that was once used by use. This only hints at our selfish trait of character and that we are cannibalizing the natural resources all around us and reducing it to mere garbage, so what are we eventually, part of what we no longer desire: The Grabage.

We tend to overlook fundamental fact that if we are able to be a little more imaginative, creative and resourceful we can transform the garbage into a pot of gold!

We junk most of the tin cans and botlles and also the rexine bags that can be used in the following way:

• The distributors of the manufacuters supplying their ware in glass containers can use the same network to retrieve the container and reuse it. This will reduce the manufacuring cost and also the resources utilized in further making new glass containers.
• The tin cans also can be recycled instead of junking them as garbage and yet another novel use of the tin cans is to beat them into sheets, weld them and use them as sheets used for shade roofing and also for creative partitions, frames and many household fixttures that are made from aluminium and tin foil sheets.
• The rexine and gunny bags too can be the medium of retail creativity with joining the sheets to make covers such as covers for automobiles and also as a covering for makeshift greenhouse frames that you can erect in your apartment balcony or on the terrace of your haouse. There is no limit to creativity as we say, "Sky is definitely the limit!" Just a novice feat of innovtion that I have personally tried is, have grown balcony vegetable garden in rexine bags, The gunny bags lovinly hold the tomato, chilli, garlic, onion, and many such plants that are in full bloom and fruition, that is what I am told as I am miles away from the garden.
• All the materials mentioned above can also be used for making the frames and fixtures for adobe homes that can be an economical and ecological solution to the housing problem most of the urban and rural underprivileged experience.  
• The bio degradable garbage is used for generating electricity and also for making compost, insecticides, bio gas too, so why not we have such waste utilities in the residential localities so that the localites can reutilize the garbage to their benefit and also refurbish the planet of its resources as it is pointed out that the rate at which humans consume resources is nearly 70% faster than the rate at which Nature is able to replensih the resources consumed by us. So, it is time for all of us to reflect upon how we are utilizing the bounties of Nature and above all, how selfishly considering the generations to come, our progenies, what will they think of us, there predecessors.

Have you given it a considerable thought? I think I need to do so myself.

Set the Family Right to Set the World Right

On a Sunday morning after church, Sam’s Father sat in his arm chair reading the morning paper patiently answering each and every question Sam asked him time and again.



After some time, Sam’s father tore a portion of the morning paper which had a picture of the globe on it and tore it into pieces. He then handed over the pieces of the picture to Sam and said, “Son, please set the picture of the World and show it to me.” He was glad that he had succeeded in keeping his son busy so that he could read the newspaper without any interruptions.


Within a couple of minutes Sam tugged at his Father’s arm and said, “Papa, I have set the picture, you can see it”.


Sam’s Father then looked away from the paper in towards the floor his son was pointing at and saw the pieces of news paper neatly arranged on the floor, but instead of the picture of the world was the picture of a family and said, “Sam, but I had given you the picture of the world to set?”


To this his son replied, “Papa, if you turn the page you will find your world, I saw it when I was setting the picture and so I set the family to set the world for you.”




This was narrated by Fr. Cyril at an Orientation session.