Interest in this meeting of extremes may be added by the fact that in my experience they were waymarks of my outleading from an individualistic educational and religious training to a more altruistic point of view for thought and action;

A burst of cloudy topsails Go blowing swiftly by, With the stars aswirl behind them Like bright dust down the sky.

From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.[…] But viewed from high up in one of the growing number of skyscrapers in Sri Lanka’s capital, it is clear that something extraordinary is happening: China is creating a shipping hub just 200 miles from India’s southern tip.

I caught them doing it.