Thought Of The Day

  Friday -- Beautiful cold morning of late October with 2 C below zero. I am done with my breakfast enjoying my tea, watching the scenic view of my back garden through the big glass panels of my patio doors.  I popped my face out to have a feel of the breeze. I am skipping my walk on the deck. I am not in a mood to dress up in layers. It is early morning. I will do that after, while going to lake. Trees go on showering Gold, Bronze, Coffee and Copper leaves on the green of my lawn. Some trees are turned into skeletons. Some are still facing the weather turmoil. This is time of transition.  Summer is handing over his power. Fall is there to take over all the responsibilities till winter comes to take it away. Winter comes with ambitious plans to rule for rest of the year, also pushing for couple of extra months until Summer exerts it's power to make winter to leave the ground. This power struggle goes on year after year.  We Humans have to adjust with whatever is ther...

  Tuesday -- Mixed sunny cloudy morning of late October. It is 10.30, I am just done with my breakfast. It is 2 C, cold day. I popped out of my Patio door to have a feel of the breeze. Walked on my deck for couple of minutes. Trees look quite, I think they are planning for the days to come. They know next month will be tough. Snow will be here any time soon.  Some of the trees look composed and relaxed. No worries, ready to face whatever will be there. I think they believe to enjoy the moments in hand. Don't want to spoil their todays. They realize that the Recipe to lead a happy life is to live in the moment. It is beautiful here in my back garden. Trees keep on showering Gold, Copper, Bronze and Coffee leaves on the green of my lawn. Black Squirrel is enjoying his morning snacks near the newly built wooden fence. What an atmosphere of peace and harmony around. Staying here is like time to gather the treasure moments, moments of tranquility, imparts the deep down peace and me...

  Sunday -- Beautiful mixed sunny cloudy morning of late October. It is cold zero degree. After having breakfast I was at my deck to have a feel of the  outside  atmosphere. I was not dressed up for that much cold so decided to enjoy my tea in my room. We have to be careful for our health, specially at our age. Not good to be burden for our kids. A night before, I had very disturbed sleep. I was able to have some sleep after three in the morning and woke up at six. Anyway things happen. We are Humans not robot. It is normal, we will have some ups and downs, while  passing through the cycle of our life..  My youngest sister is in Retirement home in Chicago. She is not doing well, not even picking phone calls for long. Her daughter messaged me that she might be shifted to Nursing home.  We Humans are full of emotions. What is going around, affect our routine life. Our Brain works like power house, keeps on controlling checks and balances  of all the emot...

  Friday -- Beautiful sunny morning of late October. Surprisingly it is 10 C, not so cold, will be 23 later in the afternoon. I am done with my breakfast, walking on my deck, enjoying my morning tea. It is foggy around and wet on the side path of my back garden. I think might be raining last night or may be it is morning dew. Whatever is there, looking great, beautiful.  I am enjoying my tea and also the scenic view.  Trees looking great, displaying beautiful colors of Copper, Gold, Coffee, Brick Red and different shades of Orange. What a beauty to behold, to cherish. Schools in England are closed for this week so my daughters are home. They messaged me to call when I am done with my breakfast. It is 9.30, now they messaged to call later, for now they are busy with things in their household.  We parents don't have to push our kids, don't have to put pressure. Have to leave them alone to tackle their matters. First priority is  their own  family. We can...

  Tuesday -- Beautiful morning. Sun came out after days of rain and cloudy mornings. This is one of cold days of late October with 5 C. Trees looking great with colors of Gold, Bronze, Coffee and Copper. It was rain last night, my deck is all wet. I opened my patio door to look out, to have a feel of the breeze and to connect with the world outside. It is amazing.  I see   Dew drops  sparkling under the sun.  Scattered like pearls all around on the green of my garden. Beautiful view to behold, to enjoy, to cherish. This is more than enough to make my day. Last night I didn't have good sleep. It happens at our age. Nothing to worry about. Every stage of cycle of our life is unique with it's own beauty with it's own plus and minus. Old age is like our golden era. We are already done with our responsibilities. Responsibility of raising our family and providing them food and shelter. This is time of our own, time to relax. To do what we want. To fulfil our dreams. W...

  Sunday -- Cold cloudy morning of October with 6 C. It is 9.45, I am at lake. I am all dressed up in layers with my gloves on, to handle all this. Water on my right is with high tides while the other side on the left is calm and quiet. I think this  is like portraying various stages of cycle of our our life.  One is youth with full of emotions, passion, with full of energy, full of life. The other side is like the later days of our life, where, after travelling through all that long journey, we learned, try to be more realistic. We become more patient, more accommodative with whatever is there, with the people and the things around.   Walking through the unpaved path of our life, we learn to handle things. We don't get flared up easily as we used to be in the early days of our life. Experience of tackling ups and downs throughout our journey, is enough to cool us down, to compel us to relax and to focus on the moment in hand.  It is beautiful view here at ...

  Friday -- Beautiful cold sunny morning with 2 C. It was raining last night so deck in my backyard is all wet. I stepped out to have a feel of the atmosphere outside. Rain drops are looking great, sparkling  under bright sunlight,  like pearls scattered on the green of my lawn.  My garden fence has to be replaced so workers are busy with that.  I checked my table calendar. It is time for my hair wash. I have to do hair color too. At this age, I don't have much hair left so I take small portion from the color tube and the mixing bottle, mix in small bowl and save the rest for next times. One pack is enough for months. I usually color my hair twice a month.  I also have to do my laundry but my daughter, who lives in Kent, just messaged that her mother in law's niece lost her husband. He had heart attack. I have to make some calls for that, to share their grief. That is more important. My laundry can wait. I will do that tomorrow.  Family always comes fi...

  Wednesday -- Beautiful sunny morning with 6 C, not so cold for we Canadians. I am done with my breakfast. It is 9.15, I am enjoying my tea at the deck in my back garden. It is beautiful around here. Gold, copper, coffee, bronze, all color of leaves are scattered on the green of of my garden.  Trees around looks quiet, silently looking at the changing weather. I think planning to deal with the transformations ahead. Black Squirrel enjoying his morning snacks, on the left. I am wearing my light jacket. This is my favorite blue jacket, perfect for this type of weather.  Couple of years back,  I got it from  O xfam store for four pounds, while I was visiting my daughters in England.  My daughter the middle one, used to live in Purley at that time.  Things change, time flies.  She now lives in Grimsby, four to five hours drive from London. It can take six to seven hours, all depends on the Motorway traffic situation. You can not predict the distance ...

  Sunday -- Beautiful sunny cold morning with 4 C. It is 9.30, I am enjoying my morning tea, walking on my deck  in my back garden. Beautiful view all around. I can see two more than 20 Ft tall trees with mixed colors. One, on my right, of 15 Ft height, is full of orange leaves. All beautiful  colors of  red, bronze, gold, are scattered on the green of my garden. It is an amazing view to cherish. Yesterday, after eight months, I went to Dollarama. I have to get some socks. My son was suggesting me to go to Walmart, but in big stores, it takes longer to enter, to find things and to line up in check outs.  Small stores are like small communities, easy to interact. I got pack of socks for four dollars. I picked some chocolates for my grand kids. Hair clips for myself. I took small sanitizer bottle with me to use after I was out of the store. I haven't forgotten to take my mask with me. It didn't take long there so enough time to go to lake after that. It was beauti...

  Friday -- Beautiful cold sunny morning of early October with 2 C. It was raining last night so the deck in my back garden is all wet. It is 9.15, I am done with my breakfast, having my morning tea at my Deck. I am walking carefully to make sure not to lose my balance as at some spots, it is still slippery.  I am enjoying the morning breeze and the beautiful view around. Black Squirrel is busy with his exercises on the wooden fence. I miss my friend the White Butterfly. The trees around looking great with leaves of all shades of yellow, gold, orange and bronze. Grass still green in my garden. But I know this is October, a month of change. Month of transfer of powers. Every season has it's own beauty. Spring season is leaving the ground. Autumn has to take Oath, to take command for the next couple of months. Winter is on the way to change the entire outlook. Snow will wipe out all colors to give the nature a clean slate, to draw new sketches, new pictures, to change the scener...

  Tuesday -- Beautiful mixed sunny cloudy morning of early October, 11 C not so cold. It is 9.30, I am done with my breakfast, have to grab my light blue jacket to walk around on the Deck, in my back garden. It is windy with gusts of 40 km. I am enjoying the colors. Trees look beautiful with gold, orange, red and bronze leaves, with green around.  My youngest daughter calling me from Reading. She is done with her school time. She calls me on the way, while  going back home. Her school is 20 minutes away. We talk just to have chit chat. Nothing important to share. But to connect is the key, important enough to give assurance that we can share whatever will come up, to be resolved. My daughter, the middle one called me from Grimsby. She was at the hospital to get her MRI results but has to wait till tomorrow. She was letting me know, to give the updates. To connect and to share is important for both the parties. It lowers down the pressure level in our difficult moments....

  Sunday -- Beautiful mixed sunny cloudy morning of early October. It was raining last night.  Deck in my backyard is all wet.   It is 9.15, I am done with my breakfast.   I will take my chances to go outside to enjoy my tea, to walk around in my back garden.  It is light drizzle, you can enjoy but can not get wet. Amazing. I am wearing my light blue jacket to cover myself. I think that's enough protection. It is 7 C. Cold. Sun came out, just for a while now hiding again. It is no more a light drizzle, I have to go inside. At our age, we have to be extra careful. Keeping in mind that we have to avoid to be in situations, where our kids have to face problems. We become sick and be like a liability for our kids. We have to avoid putting them in a position of taking care of us, of we parents. They already are busy with families of their own. We don't have to put them under some extra pressure to deal with. We have to do things taking into account of our safety...

  Friday -- Beautiful sunny cold morning with 7 C. For couple of days I missed my after breakfast morning walks on the Deck in my back garden. It used to be rain at nights so Deck was all wet.  Today I got the chance. I am walking around, enjoying my morning tea on the deck. It is beautiful view here with green all around. While going back inside, I slammed the patio door and my left hand little finger was in between. It was really painful with dripping blood. With the intensity of pain, I was scared that it might be a fracture but thank God it is not.  It took couple of hours for me to be back on track. I wiped my finger with alcohol and put ointment and bandaged it. At that time I was feeling like no energy in my whole body. I had no option but to lye down on my bedroom carpet. Anyway it is over now. I had shower and put my clothes in washer, doing laundry. My finger is under bandage but I am happy that I am doing work on my own. I am really thankful to God Almighty for...