{"id":68888,"date":"2021-07-12T15:54:22","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T15:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=68888"},"modified":"2021-07-12T15:54:22","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T15:54:22","slug":"nariyage-magula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/nariyage-magula\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Nariyage Magula\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">\u2018Nariyage Magula\u2019<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-68889 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Somasiri.jpg\" alt=\"Somasiri\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\"><em>\u201cHere I am, an old man in a dry month,<\/em><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\"><em>Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain\u201d<\/em><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">No rum today. No matter.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">About nine in the morning there is a welcome shower. The sky is blue, the sun is shining and we have this utterly welcome shower. I am not going to miss this. I drag my plastic armchair: I bought one because it\u2019s so light that I do not have to call someone to bring it for me. I drag it to the open door; sit, and watch the rain.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">The water comes down from the roof and into the drain, flowing without hindrance. The flow keeps ricocheting off the sides of the drain generating a sort of lattice-work of ripples. Odd bits of flotsam, dried leaves float down. The water flows along and the lattice-work seems almost static, but it\u2019s not. Raindrops fall, and superimpose circular ripples on the moving water. Ripples interact. All is movement, all changing all the time.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Not a bad thought on Vesak day, yesterday that was, and that is why it\u2019s raining. It always rains on Vesak day.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">I look up. Blue skies and sunlight and some little movement. A cloud of little flying insects, flying up 10\u00a0 from the ground. They are pouring out of the ground. Not from one place but two, perhaps more. They are too small for me to identify, but can be seen because the sunlight picks them out against the dark backdrop of the trees. Too small to be \u201cmay-roo\u201d but obviously related. All on a nuptial flight. Released from an underground life, by the rain they have been waiting for. Like prisoners waiting for a Presidential pardon on Vesak day. 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