The sound of the rain always evokes feelings of longing.

I once heard a professor said this while i was doing an event for a seminar. In every beginning of a city or civilisation, a tree is always the first to be planted. Road and buildings are always a post requisite. A tree in nature is where people congregate, where they seek shelter under the sun and they exchange ideas. They communicate and they start trading under the tree. With trade, the city flourish and the rest are naturally developed.
Interesting analogy i should say. At the end of the seminar, his students who are doing their Phd brought up a tree and gave it to him as a farewell gift. One of the student said, 'We plant tress to benefit another generation, our future', and the knowledge which you have imparted is precisely like planting trees into our life, creating a better future, for us and through us.

"To educate is to help one to understand freedom and integration. To have freedom there must be order, which virtue alone can give; and integration can take place only when there is great simplicity. From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must be simple in our inward life and in our outward needs."
- J. Krishnamurti

Strange encounters bring interesting interaction.
The train trip with a french man and the beer chat with a Northern Ireland guy. The tales of others.