Thought Of The Day

   Things are getting better day by day. Snow storms have taken a break. My walks are on hold for now.  Snow is all around. Walkways are not safe for me to walk on. Icy patches are on the path. We have to be extra careful while getting out. Not have to be too ambitious while making plans.  We have to take safety as our top priority. Health and safety is a priority at any age. It becomes more important at the later stages of life. Any mishaps will be disastrous. We will be done for the rest of our life. Not easy to be back on track. I still take my chances to get out. I coordinate with the time of my son and grandsons. I go with them when they go to the gym. Kids nowadays take their workouts religiously. Going to the gym is their daily routine. They don't want to miss that. That works for me. It is 1.35, I am sitting in the food court of Pickering Town Centre. I usually used to go for my walks around 11.30 after. Not any more. My time fluctuates. It all depends on the...

    Change is beauty. Change of scenery. Day ends giving its way to noon, dusk and finally to night. The night gives way to mornings. It is the beautiful cycle of change. Change is the beauty of life for sure. Our childhood changes into teens. We grow up to find change in our friends and our companions. We start our family. Our new life needs to change our place to shift into a new one. We are out of the house, where we spent time with our loved ones. Our parents and our siblings. We have to move out. We need space for our family. We have to change the house. We are done with our school days and have to start our career to step into practical life. The school building has been changed into a workplace. We see our school buddies once a while. No time now. We are busy with work. Colleagues at work are now our buddies. We hang along with them. So much has been changed in our habits in our thinking in what we talk and how we talk. We don't enjoy our time with most of our old buddi...

    Things are getting better in my city Toronto. It's not snowing anymore. Bright and beautiful, cold morning with 26 C below zero.  Everything is back on track. People are at work, some are working online at home. Roads and walkways are all cleared off. Traffic is as usual. I am off today, no Darts on Thursdays. I am busy sorting my closet things. My clothes are all messed up. I have to organize that. It was on hold for so long. Not anymore. Enough is enough. I will do that today. It is 11.30, all my clothes are on my bed, out of my closet. My suitcase is also out of the cupboard. I have to sort and pack what I am not using for a while. Everything is done in about half an hour. I took a couple of my dresses to drop off at Value Village. We have to give what we are not using to others. It might help them out. It's 12.30, I am in my kitchen. I will make a veggie omelet for my son and for myself too. We don't have to forget to treat our body well. Mind and body are two in ...

  The snow storm is done for a while. Things are back to normal. Roads are busy.  Traffic is as usual that I can see from my window. Yesterday things were really bad. I went to attend the funeral of someone's father in the community. The front right side of our car was stuck in a ditch. I was sitting in front on that side. I had to get out from the driver's side of the door. I made it. By the Grace of God. Someone from the community dropped us home. We had to call Canadian Tire for tow truck service. It was too busy due to the weather so many calls to attend for them. It took all day to get the car back on our driveway. Thank God no damage was done. We were in one piece and so was our car. Done is done anyway. It is 10.30 in the morning. Everyone left for work. I am sitting on an empty nest. Just my eldest grandson is working from home. He is busy with his meetings and computer. It's Tuesday so I don't have to go to work. No Darts today. All sorts of grey green and blue...

  Nowadays it's a totally different scenario in my city of Toronto. Snow everywhere, looks like wintry days of Ottawa.  It wasn't used to be in Toronto before. Winter has not been so intense here for decades. It is Monday, the first day of the week. It used to be busy, not today. Schools are closed. People are home working online. Many city facilities are closed. My work place is also closed. No Darts today. I am staying home. I have to look for things to do. Someone's father died last night. His funeral is today at noon. I have to go to be there to share her grief. It is important to be with people in their difficult moments. Sharing matters a lot. To let them know that they are not alone. They have people you can share your moments with, your thoughts. We are here to listen to all that. We have time for you. I washed and changed my bed sheets yesterday. I will make some calls. My Uni friend was in the States for some wedding. She must be back by now. I will call her. We t...

  The winter looks tough this year in Toronto. It doesn't have to be like this before what I remember.  February used to be hard. January used to be not like this year in 2026. It was snowing all day long yesterday. The driving conditions were not good. It took my son to pick me up from my library in about half an hour. My George Ash library is just a five minutes drive from my home in Pickering. Roads were slippery. City workers were waiting for the snow to stop to clear the mess. Today it is a totally different scenario. Roads and walkways all cleared off. Snow banks at the sides are not bothering at all. Traffic is as usual. People are back to their normal routine. It's Thursday, I am not working today. No Darts today. It is 11.45, my son is going to the Gym in 10 minutes. I am getting ready to go with him. It is a cold and windy day with gusts around 50 km and feeling like 19 C below zero. I don't have to walk outside. I am going in the car. I am taking my long medium w...