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How do you propose to spend your summer vacation? Come to join us in Europe. My visit here will be over by the end of March, and we are eagerly looking forward to the delightful time we are to spend in France, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and if possible, in Spain and Italy. It will be delightful for me to share my enjoyment with you and then go back together to Santiniketan.

To-day is New Year's Day. But I do not feel it in the air; it brings no message to me. New Year comes to these countries with possibilities of new inventions, new political adjustments, and economic revolutions. But the New Year which we know in Santiniketan comes to our soul bringing the expectation of its own blossoming, through some inner miracle of renovation. Last night the whole town went mad with a boisterous fury of merri- ment and this morning it is too tired to open its heart to the beautiful sunlight of the New Year’s Day. All the while my heart is aching to think that our first day of Baisakh will bring its blessings for me in the early morning light of Santiniketan and find my seat vacant. How precious with truth and peace those days are made, we know when our hearts are wandering in a wilderness of things, thirsting for a drop of Amrita, the draught of everlasting life.