~~Thought for the day~~

MAN'S mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed-seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.

Just as a gardener cultivates his plot, keeping it free from weeds,and growing the flowers and fruits which he requires, so may a man tend the garden of his mind, weeding out all the wrong, useless, and impure thoughts, and cultivating toward perfection the flowers and fruits of right, useful, and pure thoughts. By pursuing this process, a man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life. He also reveals, within himself, the laws of thought, and understands, with ever-increasing accuracy, how the thought-forces and mind elements operate in the shaping of his character, circumstances, and destiny.

(few lines from "As a Man Thinkth")

~~Pic for the day~~

This weird object is in the river side park!

~~Alexander Hamilton final post~~

   After the tour got over I just roamed around in the ground floor which had few information about Hamilton. He was the first American involved in a sex scandal which damaged his reputation and forced him out of public life. He was killed in a duel between Aaron Burr the then vice president of United States.

He is one of the two non US president to be put on a currency note. 

 He favored government over business and felt that government was needed to control business.Below are the few of other stuffs I found interesting in the place.

~~Alexander Hamilton's house~~

 Hamilton Grange the place built by Alexander Hamilton was renovated and reopened to public last month.The property transferred few hands and was with a church. Then the National park service got it from them and moved the house from that place . They  literally carried the house 100 feet up from the ground using a crane and  moved to hill where it is located now.

There was not many people in the place and I signed for a tour around the house ,first I was the only person in that tour and guide was explaining little bit about the importance of Alexander Hamilton by being the founder of national treasury and building the initial foundation to make new york city financial capital of the world.Then a family joined the tour ,they had a eight year old kid who was named Alexander. Then the tour guide started explaining the American war of Independence how battle for new york proved to be a turning point. Then he took us around the house explaining the old architecture ,furniture working etc.

Then we were left on our own to explore the little of the remaining stuffs for ourselves.

~~Alexander Hamilton~~

Last Sunday I visited Alexander Hamilton's house which was recently opened to public. He was one of the founding fathers of USA and supposed to be the master of all trades. Picture below tells it all.

More details tomorrow!

~~Fault Line~~

  When there was minor earthquake few months back , there were reports that there is a fault line in Manhattan, specifically running across 125th street. I live near few minutes from this street and never new this fact. The subway station is above the ground in our area one of the few in Manhattan. Yesterday I was taking a walk towards upper side and could see how deep our street looked from there.

The above is the picture of the subway station .

~~taking pictures~~

  I went for a walk on the river side after lunch. This week was supposed to peak fall color in new york city but last week snow messed up things. I had taken my camera along with me and tried taking pictures using few effects in the camera.

Fish Effect:

Toy Effect:

 Monochrome

 

Adding color tint:

 Wide Angle:

~~Weekend Read(2)~~

  What supposed to be a weekend read got finished in a day ,so I need to figure out what should I do tomorrow.

 Anyways coming back to novel about smart young lawyer quitting a big firm joining a broke legal firm with two lawyers whose main clients are drunk driving cases and divorces. Suddenly they found a case which might bring a big pharma company down. Story goes on how the law suits are fought between big firms who are much organized  compared to the ordinary street lawyers. It was an interesting read !

~~Weekend Read~~

 So here I am in New York library thinking of what to read for the weekend. Its been sometime I read a novel so I went to the new releases section. There were few chick flicks,horror science fiction books there but nothing caught my attention, I just for a second thought why cant there be a John Grisham book. Immediately I heard somebody saying excuse me behind my back and there was the librarian placing the placing the latest book "The Litigators" by John Grisham in the new releases section. I grabbed it quickly, took home for the weekend read.

Moral of the story:
  Great people get things the moment they think about it.

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