METHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS FOR DEVELOPING THE ABILITY TO CREATE NEW KNOWLEDGE IN THE PEDAGOGICAL PROCESS

Navbaxar Mahmudjanovna Karimova
Educator at Multidisciplinary Specialized Preschool Educational Institution No. 9, Gurlan District, Khorezm Region
Master’s Degree Student in Pedagogy at Asia International University

Dissertation Research Topic

“Methodological Foundations for Developing the Ability to Create New Knowledge in the Pedagogical Process”

Abstract

This article analyzes the theoretical and practical aspects of developing the ability of students and learners to create new knowledge within the modern educational system. The study highlights the role of creative thinking, research skills, and innovative approaches in the pedagogical process. Furthermore, the article systematically presents the main methodological principles, methods, and tools that contribute to the development of this ability.

Keywords: pedagogy, knowledge creation, creativity, research activity, innovative methods, critical thinking, competency-based approach.

Introduction

The twenty-first century is characterized by information technologies and globalization, where the ability to independently search for, analyze, and create new knowledge has become more important than merely acquiring ready-made information. Traditional educational models were predominantly reproductive in nature and required passive participation from learners. However, modern society demands specialists who not only possess existing knowledge but can also find original solutions in uncertain situations, generate new ideas, and apply them in practice. Therefore, developing the ability to create new knowledge in the pedagogical process is not only a didactic issue but also a socio-economic necessity.

The Concept of Knowledge Creation and Its Psychological and Pedagogical Essence

The ability to create new knowledge is the process through which an individual identifies previously unknown facts, patterns, or relationships, systematizes them, and applies them in practice to generate subjective or objective novelty. From a psychological perspective, this process is based on the integration of divergent thinking, intuition, and logical analysis.

From a pedagogical perspective, knowledge creation represents the highest level of learners’ cognitive activity. This process includes the following stages: identifying the problem, formulating hypotheses, collecting and analyzing data, testing through experimentation or modeling, and drawing conclusions. Within this process, the teacher’s role shifts from that of a controller to a facilitator and collaborative researcher.

Methodological Foundations and Principles

To develop the ability to create new knowledge, the following methodological principles should be followed:

1. Principle of Problem-Based Learning

The educational process should begin not with providing ready-made answers but with creating open-ended problem situations. The questions posed to learners should not have a single predetermined answer and should require the use of various sources to find solutions. Such situations stimulate curiosity and the desire for inquiry.

2. Principle of Subject-to-Subject Relationships

The traditional vertical relationship between teacher and learner should be transformed into horizontal cooperation. Through dialogue, discussions, debates, and collaborative projects, learners develop the ability to express their ideas freely and critically evaluate the ideas of others.

3. Principle of an Integrated Approach

New knowledge often emerges at the intersection of disciplines. Therefore, organizing interdisciplinary lessons and projects that connect natural sciences, exact sciences, and humanities is highly effective. For example, solving environmental problems requires the integration of knowledge from biology, chemistry, economics, and law.

4. Principle of Individualization and Differentiation

Each learner possesses unique cognitive styles, interests, and creative potential. The educational process should provide tasks and learning paths tailored to individual needs and strengths, allowing learners to realize their full potential.

Methods and Technologies for Developing Knowledge Creation Skills

To implement the above principles, the following modern pedagogical technologies are recommended:

Research Activity Method

In this approach, learners conduct small-scale scientific research projects. They select topics, review literature, collect empirical data, and present their findings. This process develops a culture of scientific thinking.

Project-Based Learning (PBL)

Through long-term projects, learners create new products, models, or strategies to solve real-life problems. Both the final result and the process itself are evaluated.

Design Thinking

This human-centered approach consists of empathy, problem definition, idea generation, prototyping, and testing. Design thinking helps learners discover innovative solutions without fear of making mistakes through iterative processes.

Case Study Method

By analyzing complex real-life situations, learners examine problems in depth and justify their decisions. This method develops analytical thinking and decision-making skills.

TRIZ Elements (Theory of Inventive Problem Solving)

The use of specialized algorithms to overcome technical and creative contradictions enhances learners’ systematic creative thinking abilities.

Transformation of the Assessment System

Traditional grading systems cannot fully reflect the process of creating new knowledge. Therefore, formative assessment should become a priority. Assessment criteria should include originality of ideas, validity of solutions, quality of source utilization, teamwork skills, and presentation abilities. The portfolio method can be used to monitor learners’ developmental progress over time.

Conclusion

Developing the ability to create new knowledge in the pedagogical process is a complex and multifaceted task. It requires not only changes in teaching methodology but also fundamental reforms in the educational environment, the teacher’s role, and assessment systems. Methodological foundations should be based on problem situations, collaboration, integration, and individualized approaches. Modern methods, particularly research activities and project-based learning, play a decisive role in transforming learners from passive recipients of information into active creators of knowledge. In the future, enriching this field with digital technologies and artificial intelligence capabilities will further increase pedagogical effectiveness.

References

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2. G‘ulomov, S. G. Pedagogical Technologies and Their Application Methodology. Tashkent: Fan va Texnologiya Publishing House, 2021.
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4. Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan “On Education.” Tashkent, 2020.
5. Sternberg, R. J. Creativity: From Potential to Realization. American Psychological Association, 2019.

Navbaxar Mahmudjanovna Karimova was born on March 25, 1984, in Gurlan district of Khorezm region, Uzbekistan, into an educated family.

From 1990 to 1998, she studied at Secondary School No. 1 in Gurlan district. Between 1998 and 2001, she continued her education at Gymnasium No. 6 in Gurlan district and successfully graduated with excellent academic results.

From 2001 to 2003, she studied Nursing at the Electromedical Technical College in Tashkent, the capital city of Uzbekistan, and graduated with honors and outstanding academic achievements.

From 2020 to 2025, she successfully completed her Bachelor’s degree in Preschool Education at Urgench State University.

In 2026, she successfully completed a professional retraining course in Defectology (Special Education) at Nizami Tashkent State Pedagogical National University.

Currently, she works as a Defectologist (Special Education Teacher) at the Multidisciplinary Specialized Preschool Educational Institution No. 9 in Gurlan district, Khorezm region, which operates under the National Agency for Social Protection under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

She is fluent in both Russian and Turkish languages. In addition, she is currently a Master’s student in the field of Pedagogy at Asia International University.

In 2023, she was awarded the badge “Dedicated Professional of Her Profession”.

In 2024, she received the badge “Best Scientific Researcher of the Year”.

In 2025, she was awarded the badge “Excellent Worker in Preschool and School Education”.

She is the author of the methodological guidebook titled “Inclusive Education in Preschool Educational Institutions.”

She has also published books entitled “My Goals,” “Dear Child, For You,” and “Young Explorers.”

Many of her scientific articles have been published in international newspapers and journals.

Her article titled “STEAM Technologies in Preschool Educational Institutions” was published in the book “Leading Women of Uzbekistan” in Türkiye. More than 200 of her articles have been published on international platforms and websites.

Country

The new delight of silence

And the crescendo of music

Tulip trees and sunflower seeds

Are swon into the crevices of my mind

The petals are fallen and forbidden

I call to the angels of the night

The hyacinth and the black drops

And the fallen fishes of catastrophe

I sweep my pen dust across my room

Like love it flies into freedom and pain

Music is a doorstep away to vanish off 

The electric traumatic rain 

I taste like good weapon my own country

The people are on their salvation

As roads write off like meditation of past.

The Fruits Forest concept

Hello, my name is Timothee Bordenave, from France. I wanted to share an idea with you that is inspired from my life experience as a tree sower and can be called the Fruits Forest.

If you very simply collect the seeds from the fruits that you eat, then time after time you can sow these seeds. The best moment in the year to sow a seed would be generally the same as when you have just eaten the fruit from which it was taken off, because of natural cycles. But, I have tested this, many other moments in the year from late winter to early fall, can be appropriate too, as long as the weather conditions and the soil where to sow are good.

You would, very likely, by coming back to the place where a seed was sown, find a young plant of a tree at birth, a few months later. You would likewise, a few years afterwards, find very often a tree in itself, bearing fruits after merely only a year or two…

Then, if you realize this action often enough, several fruit trees, many fruit trees eventually, would be born and would bear good fruits, as in the orchard gardens this is what was always done, initially. And if you reproduce your sowing on a large enough scale, then not long after your beginning, an orchard that would be about the size of a small wood, or even of a small forest, can be implanted into your land – and this for an undefined, but likely to be very long time for the future.

The same proceeding can be undertaken as starting in a wood or a forest at first, where if you take advantage of the original disposition and distribution of the existing trees, you will be able to sow fruit seeds and also if you know how to do so to graft on fruit-bearing branches, locally at first and after a time, with a patient and constant work, on a very large forest surface, easily.

This principle can be applied to any lands were the soils would be good and clean enough, I presume. I presume also this applies to any type or species of fruit trees. Then, it can be done at any level of implementation : from one tree in your backyard to a forest of fruits…

When I was young, I was very impressed by a story from a French writer, M. Jean Giono, entitled : The man who planted trees. Where is described the life of a postman who declined despairing about his region being arid and a close-desert, and who then planted oak trees he had collected seeds of at first, to thereafter gradually be giving birth to an oak forest covering acres, and acres, and acres, of the hills around his village.

Believe me : inspired by this narration, I then tried with my humble own manner to do the same. And even if I did not maybe yet achieve the quest for planting a whole fruit forest… Well, I can say I have been at the origin of thousands of trees bearing fruits, and I notably planted a few big orchards already, along with many seeds that I sew in the wild, of which I saw many trees growing, which I could eat the fruits of.

I chose from the beginning to sow seeds of fruits, because I foresee here a great utility, both for the food they bring obviously to my fellow humans, second for the food they bring to various animal species, facilitating their ability to live near and to enhance the « biodiversity », and improve the ecological system or environment in these areas concerned by a new food supply from the fruits of these trees.

Now, would we hopefully one day, realize a whole fruits forest in France, for example, where a majority of our vast wooden lands would host a lot of fruit trees, we would then be close to our old, European medieval idea of a Forest of Abundance, which was closely related to our ancestors’ views of an Earthly Paradise!

Call me a dreamer if you wish to, still, this idea starts with the simple, calm and peasant work of anyone who would like to take a seedling of a fruit, and sow it in the good soil, in Nature, to enjoy it being grown soon after in a tree, where fruits can be picked off… Indefinitely, in time, afterwards!

Born in 1984 in Paris, France, Timothee Bordenave is a French author of fiction and essays, and a poet. He has published many books, about 25 to date, and his literary works have been translated in large parts to about 20 languages… He is also a visual artist, whose photographs and paintings have been shown in France and in various international locations. He used to work directing libraries in Paris, and nowadays he is a full time creative.

The First Shelter

Long before the first lullaby,

before blankets, before names

stitched into fabric

that will never stay clean,

she was learning

what it means to hold something

that does not yet have language.

Time came in small, private signals –

a turn, a kick, a sudden stillness

that no one else could hear.

The world kept asking

whether she was ready,

as though readiness

ever arrives before love does.

Then one ordinary morning,

everything narrowed

to the size of breath in a room.

It fits inside her arms –

this miracle that once lived only as waiting.

After that, days began changing shape.

Shoes left by doorways that never stay

empty.

Rooms rearranged by growth she did not

vote for.

Hands that once held her finger

now testing the distance of departure.

Still, something returns –

not always in bodies,

sometimes only in echoes:

a word spoken the same way she once

spoke it,

a laugh that forgets to be careful.

Perhaps that is motherhood –

not holding everything,

but becoming the place

where things first learn they are safe

and the place they return to

without always knowing why.

A Heart That Multiplies

No one notices

when the day begins inside her.

Before the kettle remembers its song,

before the window quite let in morning,

she is already gathering scattered hours

into something the family can live inside.

She carries invisible things –

an appointment no one else will

remember,

a sweater already folded once into a

schoolbag,

rain waiting somewhere without warning.

She makes an apology

for arguments she did not begin,

simply because peace

has learned her name too well.

There are afternoons

when silence follows her

from room to room,

not like loneliness exactly,

but like another task

she has not finished.

She wonders, briefly,

who she was

before every thought

began with someone else tomorrow.

Then a laugh cuts through the house –

too loud, to alive to ignore.

A voice calls, Mum.

Just that.

And something in her shifts –

not fixed, but pulled back together

in a way she cannot explain.

She does not mistake love for ease.

She knows it is built

the way rivers worry stone:

slowly, without witness,

until every hardness begins to change shape.

Chidimma Ewelukwa is a Nigerian writer whose work explores memory, belonging, identity, and the quiet tensions of everyday life. She has been published in Writer Monk Literary Magazine.

MATURITY

Mature woman, 

you carry your years,

you don’t stop to look at life.

The waves carry you,

the sky covers you,

The birds are accomplices

of your thoughts.

Teresa De Lujan Safar is a member of Together for Letters. She lives in Pergamino, Buenos Aires province, and has written a book, Crisol of Ideas. She’s published in the “Huellas de Cristores” anthologies and seven “Rosario, Bridges of Words” anthologies, curated by Gladys Lopes Pianesi. She has participated in the literary workshop of Estela Torres Erill and currently attends the “Florilegio” literary workshop, coordinated by Marta Susana Lomellino. She’s a current member of “Together for Letters.”

PROSPECTS FOR AUTOMATING FINANCIAL REPORTING BY INTEGRATING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODULES INTO 1C ACCOUNTING SYSTEMS

Ibroximova Hayitxon Mirzoxidjon qizi
2nd-year Student, Andijan State Technical Institute
Tel: +998 88 063 12 30
Email: ibroximovahayitxon@gamil.com

Abstract
The article analyzes the issues of automating accounting and financial reporting by integrating artificial intelligence modules into the 1C platform. The study highlights the prospects of intelligent data processing using neural networks, reducing the human factor, and developing digital infrastructure. The proposed approach allows for improving the accuracy of financial forecasting and optimizing the operational costs of enterprises.

Keywords: 1C: Accounting, artificial intelligence, neural networks, financial reporting, automation, cloud technologies, optimization.

1. Introduction
Today, the global economy is undergoing a period of rapid digital transformation. Within the framework of the “Digital Uzbekistan – 2030” strategy, approved by the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, the automation of the accounting and financial system has been designated as a priority task.
Traditional accounting methods are slow when processing large volumes of data (Big Data) and are prone to errors associated with the human factor. This necessitates the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) modules in this field.

Currently, approximately 90% of enterprises in our country use the “1C: Accounting” software. However, manual data entry in this system still requires significant time and resources. The integration of artificial intelligence and modern information technology (IT) is the most effective way to solve this problem.

The main purpose of this work is to analyze the prospects of automatic recognition of primary documents, accelerating the generation of financial reports, and improving the efficiency of corporate financial services by applying AI neural networks on the basis of the 1C platform. The article also covers the theoretical and practical foundations of transitioning to a “Smart Accounting” system through the development of digital infrastructure.

2. Methodology and Research Methods
This research work is dedicated to studying the methodological foundations of integrating the traditional accounting capabilities of the 1C platform with modern artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) modules. The methodology applied in the study consists of a multi-step comprehensive approach, including information systems architecture and methods of economic-mathematical modeling.

2.1. System Integration and Data Transmission
At the initial stage of the study, the mechanisms of data exchange between the 1C:Enterprise platform and external intelligent services were analyzed. The primary method chosen was connecting to cloud neural network services via REST API (Representational State Transfer) and SOAP protocols.
This part of the methodology involves modeling the processes of secure transmission of primary data from the 1C system (scanned copies, JSON objects) to an external server and receiving processed results (ready-made accounting entries) from there.

2.2. Image Recognition and Semantic Analysis
For automatic processing of accounting documents (invoices, payment orders, receipts), the convolutional neural networks — CNN (Convolutional Neural Networks) methodology was used. Within this method, a semantic analysis of the documents was conducted: the system analyzed not only the text in the document but also its context (for example, the spatial coordinates of key terms such as “Total”, “VAT”, “Supplier”) based on a detection algorithm.

2.3. Machine Learning Algorithms
For the automation of financial indicators, the “Supervised Learning” method was used. In this case, the training set consisted of the enterprise’s financial transactions over the last five years (Big Data):
Classification: Automatic distribution of newly received expense documents to the corresponding accounting accounts (e.g., 2010, 4410, 9420). Regression Analysis: Forecasting the cash flows of the enterprise for the upcoming period based on historical data.

2.4. Infrastructure Optimization and Verification
The study conducted a comparative analysis of the performance of cloud technologies (SaaS — Software as a Service) and local servers. A “hybrid infrastructure” method was recommended: confidential and strategic data are stored in a local database, while AI modules that require heavy computations are processed on cloud servers (Cloud Computing). This method allows for increasing the system’s throughput and balancing the server load (Load Balancing).
To verify the reliability of the research results, the benchmarking method was used. The speed and accuracy of data entered through traditional manual labor were mathematically and statistically compared with the results of the AI-integrated 1C system. The error rate and lead time were taken as the primary evaluation criteria.

3. Research Results and Analysis
The data obtained from the implementation of AI modules into the 1C platform within the research showed a radical increase in the efficiency of the enterprise’s accounting and financial services. The main results obtained can be characterized in the following areas:

Speed and Productivity: It has been proven that the process of intelligent document recognition (OCR) by AI modules and their automatic classification is significantly faster compared to the human factor. According to the experimental results, while entering 500 primary documents (invoices and waybills) into the 1C software using the traditional method required an average of 12–14 working hours, in the AI-integrated system this indicator was only 45 minutes. This represents a 94% reduction in operational time.

Accuracy Level: The error rate in generating accounting entries using machine learning algorithms was analyzed. Mechanical errors caused by fatigue or lack of attention in the traditional manual input method accounted for 5–8%, whereas when using AI algorithms, the accuracy of data recognition reached 99.2%.

Forecasting Efficiency: Using regression analysis and neural network models, the cash flows of the enterprise were forecasted. The system predicted the probability of clearing accounts receivable for the next 6 months with 92% accuracy. This result allowed the management to foresee the risk of working capital shortage 2 months in advance.

Infrastructure Performance: When studying the integration of cloud technologies and 1C, it was observed that the data processing power was 3.5 times higher compared to local servers. Centralized AI servers reduced the load on the enterprise’s internal servers, bringing the system’s uninterrupted performance coefficient (Uptime) to 99.9%.4.

Conclusion and Outlook
Based on the research and analysis of the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) modules with the 1C platform, the following general conclusions were drawn:

Increase in Labor Productivity: The introduction of neural networks into the 1C system fundamentally increases the productivity of the enterprise’s accounting department. In particular, it is proven that the time required for data entry is reduced by up to 10 times compared to the traditional method due to the intelligent processing of primary documents. This frees financial staff from monotonous routines and allows them to focus on high-value analytical tasks.

Minimization of the Human Factor: The system’s recognition of documents with above 99% accuracy increases the reliability of financial reporting, which in turn simplifies the processes of external auditing and tax control.

Economic Efficiency: The integration of cloud technologies (SaaS) opens up opportunities for small and medium-sized businesses to use high-tech AI analytical tools without the need to purchase expensive server equipment.

Strategic Planning: AI modules do not just record past data; they also predict the future financial status, cash flows, and expected tax burden of the enterprise with high accuracy. This enables management to foresee operational risks and make informed strategic decisions.

In conclusion, the integration of the “1C: Accounting” system with artificial intelligence solutions is not just a technical upgrade, but a transition to a qualitatively new, digital stage of enterprise management. In the future, the wide implementation of such systems will serve to increase the competitiveness of national enterprises in the global market.

Last Day Of School

“You will top as always, isn’t it,” said my classmates, as it was the last day of school today, the last exam of English Language was over. 

I gave them a faint smile, of course how else could I have reacted, and quickly slipped away, as I always avoided many of them. There were two close friends, and two or three more in forty with whom I ever talked. They were gone, so there was no point in staying here. 

Once I was out of the school gate, I was confused where to go to, I wasn’t going home as I know I would be going nuts there because of the boredom. After three minutes of thinking, I headed to the bazaar, my usual spot if I can’t figure out where to kill time. I had anyway informed mother that I will have lunch somewhere outside, and who will say no to a son who except coming and going to school steps out of the house once or twice a month? 

I ritually played a little with the two, pure white kitties who were always found outside my school. They were kids of the strangely two black cats who were always found sleeping in the shade of the big banyan tree opposite our school, I had seen them becoming parents from kittens and I swear I cried the day these two kittens were born, whoever may be the father. I sometimes salute the father of those kittens, that black cat didn’t throw up any drama. One film on my this brother’s life, the husbands of this entire nation will learn what it means to love. 

I walked away further, took a left turn and saw a small stall of an old aunty selling lemonade. It was May’s usual humid heat, Bombay being Bombay. 

“Aunty, one glass,” I said. She smiled; she knew this order from me would be the only thing she would hear from me the entire year. She took a glass, and quickly made me a fresh lemonade, with just the perfect amount of lemon juice, sugar and ice. It was simply refreshing. 

I then headed straight ahead, crossed a road and there it was, the bazaar. It was a huge line of one storey-ed buildings, all the same colour and the same structure. The ground floor had toy shops, stationery stores, shops selling utensils, retail shops and fast food selling shops with huge crowds in front of them. The first floor had tailors stitching shirts and pants from cloth, local ladies boutiques and tailors, barbers, and two jewellery shops. Though the rents of the shops here were the cheapest in the city, the jewellery shops here attracted waves of rich and elite people, as they had some of the most trending designs of gold earrings and gave you the largest sum of money in the city if you sold gold here. The shops on the first floor had air conditioners, and only the shops requiring it opened on the first floor. There was a medium broad staircase in between two of these buildings for you to go up. When you walked along these buildings, some hundred meters away, on the opposite side of the road were numerous vegetable and fruit carts, selling cheap but fresh fruits. These stalls sold the cheapest vegetables and fruits after wholesale rates, hence the old people who lived two kilometres or under nearby walked here to buy cheap fruits and vegetables, and even got the compulsory walk the doctors treating their diabetes prescribed them to. 

I went up to Suraj ji’s shop that sold the best vada pavs in the city. Ever since his son threw him out, he and his wife learned how to make authentic, Maharashtrian vada pavs. They settled here, in Bombay, and started their very own business by selling all the jewellery they wore. Now, they were fed up with counting the money that rained into their shop, as they were the most famous entrepreneurs of the city. Be it the locals or the foreign visitors, no one ever dared not to eat their delicacy. 

“Beta,” shouted Suraj ji as he spotted me. I touched his feet, and he blessed me. 

“Why have you come after such a long time, keep coming and see us, you are the only sunshine our old eyes ever see,” her wife exclaimed as she assembled for me a vada pav : she sliced open the pav into two flaps; applied the spicy green chutney of crushed and ground coriander, mint and green chillies; added the dry and spicy powder of red chillies and garlic, a tiny bit of the sweet jaggery and tamarind chutney, and put a big pav of spicy potato filling coated with chickpea flour and deep-fried, in between the two flaps of the bread she had just cut open. She made me two, and I sat there eating them, the only outside food I ever love. All thanks to the love in aunty’s hands that assemble them. I paid them the money after I finished feasting, and they waved back with big smiles as I went away. 

I headed to a tiny supermarket next, and bought a chocolate bar for myself. I sat under the big banyan tree at the end of the line of vegetable stalls, and just before the fruit carts. Just as I was about to open the bar, I saw three beggar boys, and one tiny and dirty naked toddler who had just learned walking trying to chase them, falling and then getting back up again and again. They quickly peeped inside the big dustbin on opposite side of this small road which was hardly ever emptied, scanning to find anything new. A boy quickly picked up a wrapper of a big chocolate bar from the very bottom, it still had some chocolate on it. The other boys started licking the stale chocolate on the wrapper, they started dancing yelling “Chocolate…”. But soon this dance turned into bloodshed as one boy snatched it and wouldn’t share. Soon, there was pulling of hair, dragging each other, kicking each other, biting and scratching. I thought it would be thoughtful to leave my chocolate where I was under the tree, and I left. After walking a few yards away, I looked back to see another fight this time over who gets the biggest chunk. I checked my watch, and I thought I must leave now. 

All the way home, I observed till I reached home the sky turning white to slight dull blue and then slightly orange, as home was a bit long walk from the bazaar here. 

On the way home, I once again passed by my school. This epitome of noises in the afternoon was now dead silent, shut down as if it never functioned. I don’t know why I felt the chills, nobody from my school would ever care for such a small thing, but for me this wasn’t a small thing. I feel (I wrote this in my essay today), that the essence of being human is dreaming big while being surrounded by small, humble feelings and joys. 

I turned my head to the tree in front. I was delighted to spot that black cat once again, now teaching his kittens to lick and clean their bodies. He showed them how to fold the paws and clean them, and how to turn the head backwards to clean the backs. If they weren’t able to do it, he showed them again how it’s done, but he didn’t groom them, and they must now do it themselves. While his kittens were practicing, their mother came and lovingly hugged him from behind. 

I had seen enough jewels today, enough heartwarming moments, a day to remember and linger in my memories. The sky was now bright orange saying darkness would creep in soon. I headed for home then.