If
only
we could make
definition
clarity of meaning will come to us.

Truth lingers throughout pathways of justice
admonishing
any doubt
within
you.

“I know that day will come when my sight of this earth shall be lost, and life will take its leave in silence, drawing the last curtain over my eyes. Yet stars will watch at night, and morning rise as before, and hours heave like sea-waves casting up pleasures and pains.

When I think of this end of my moments, the barrier of moments breaks and I see by the light of death thy world…things that I longed for in vain and things that I got–let them pass.

I have got my leave. Bid me farewell, my brothers (and sisters)! I bow to you all and take my departure. Here I give back the keys of my door–and I give up all the claims to my house. I only ask for last kind words from you. We were neighbours for long, but I received more than I could give. Now the day has dawned and the lamp that lit my dark corner is out. A summons has come and I am ready for my journey.”

Today, after seventy-one years of the passing of Tagore, we are unable to accept that he has given “up all the claims to my house”. With two national anthems in India and Bangladesh his memory is as fresh as the morning dew drops on a sunny day. It will not be diminished tomorrow.

In my book, Watching You, A Collection of Tetractys Poems, Xlibris Publications (2012) #78 poem is titled TAGORE’s MEMOIR:

My
pandal
stashed in pith
Tagore’s memoir
I come to make Mother Durga puja.

In yogi stance my body in loin cloth
Mother Durga
comes to me
as I
pray.

The perfume of Tagore’s spirit will always be with us. His Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 will remain an indelible stain of success that will make us continue to read his stories, listen to his songs and recite his Gitanjali.

McGuinty and Harper budgets devastate Ontario energy savings industry. Hundreds of Ontario energy savings companies will be forced to downsize, lay off staff, or shut down altogether. Ontario is currently the only province in Canada without home energy retrofit incentives.

Renewal of Ontario Home Energy Savings Program (OHESP) will save thousands of Ontario jobs which are to be lost in the energy retrofit industry.

OHESP creates and protects jobs in Ontario: the retrofit industry employs Ontarians and is not reliant on foreign or migrant labour. Furthermore most products used in energy retrofits are manufactured in Ontario (lumber, insulation and windows, to name but a few), and installed by skilled local labour.

OHESP is a revenue positive program for governments. The provincial government receives approximately $2.40 income from various tax sources for every $1.00 spent on retrofit incentives.

OHESP helps reduce the carbon footprint of our existing housing stock and reduces our reliance on energy from all sources (conservation before generation).

92 per cent of Ontario homeowners think government should create more incentives for homeowners to make environmentally friendly and energy efficient renovations to their homes (according to recent Ipsos Reid poll undertaken for the Ontario Real Estate Association).

http://www.SaveEnergyFirst.ca

NDP Election Promise 2011
Ontario’s New Democrats have promised nearly $1 billion over four years in retrofit programs to reduce electricity use and move the province away from its reliance on nuclear power. (Canadian Press – Aug 3 2011)