The gambler is back

Long break from blogging -- its been over an year. But, hopefully at some point I will resume writing blogs/essays at least on a monthly basis. Its been a hectic few months, but now that finally I graduated and started working as a post-doc its time to sit back a little and relax. Cant help recollecting a poem by W.H. Davies ...

What is this life if, full of care,

We have no time to stand and stare?—

No time to stand beneath the boughs,

And stare as long as sheep and cows:

No time to see, when woods we pass,

Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass:

No time to see, in broad daylight,

Streams full of stars, like skies at night:

No time to turn at Beauty's glance,

And watch her feet, how they can dance:

No time to wait till her mouth can

Enrich that smile her eyes began?

A poor life this if, full of care,

We have no time to stand and stare.