A piece of me

  Rain arrives with June. Petrichor scatters around. The phone is ringing .                                                                  -Alloysha Dias  --------------------------------------------------------------------- Picture credit: Google 

Mangroves are salt-tolerant trees that grow in swamps and are mainly found along the coast. In India, mangroves are found in West Bengal, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Goa,etc. These salt-tolerant trees protect the water quality by removing pollutants; they also prevent soil erosion and are responsible for better air quality. The root system of these mangroves makes them an ideal spot for fish and other organisms seeking food and shelter from their predators. Some of the mangrove fauna categories include crocodiles, lizards, turtles, mud clams,etc. Among the fish, one can find the giant perch (chonak), mullets (shevte), sand whiting (muddoshi), snapper (tamoso), grouper (gobro), catfish (sangot), and others. The cormorant, great cormorant, large egret, Indian shag,grey heron, and painted stockbird form part of the mangrove ecosystem. However, in recent times, due to commercial as well as industrial development, several of these mangroves have been cut down, which in turn has threatened the man...

       Change is alarming , But does the cocoon intend to be forever?                                                                           -Alloysha Dias  ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ Picture credit: Google 

               Singer:Heather Sommer       I just heard the song "the way a friend would" by Heather Sommer, and my! I was pondering deeply. The music is a soft, soothing one, and the song as a whole, with all its words, proves to be very profound; the lines seem like words that belong to each one of us at some point in our lives; the line "I wish I could see myself the way a friend would see me" proved to be the most compelling to me. I realized almost all of us see only the faults in ourselves, and only a handful are able to see or list even a few good qualities about themselves. To make things worse, when our friends point them out to us, we rarely take notice of it and instead deny having any of the qualities stated. Perhaps if we saw ourselves through the eyes of a friend, it would be different. Because it's only a true friend who sees us differently, and I suppose that's the reason we are so open and different when around...