The Sun Also Rises

Sujata Massey 

Sunrise in Coorg, India

I'd planned to write in detail about my travels in India, but it's been a hard day for me to concentrate. In Washington D.C. , the new administration appears to want to shut down many of the services the Federal Government provides to the people. An erasure of historical achievements by women and people of color; an attempt to rewrite the rules of who can be a citizen. All of it too staggering to follow. I wonder if you feel the same? ,

So my desire to write turned into a wish to share few moments of peace and beauty that I found on my trip. I found myself close to the founts of life on earth, the sun and the water.  

Greeters of the sunrise on Marine Drive, Mumbai

In a city as busy as Mumbai, hundreds of people turn out every morning to watch the sun rise over the Arabian Sea.  

View from the train between Karnataka and Goa

This view of agricultural fields and water, seen from the train as I traveled along the Konkan Coast, had no people around. 

The train journey from Mumbai to Margao, Goa, continued with hundreds of miles of tranquil views. Watching the landscape was so mesmerizing that a 9 hour journey felt much shorter.

Every color in the rainbow melted into this melange at Benaulim Beach in South Goa. And it feels good to know that sunrise and sunset are daily events that cannot be made redundant.