Thought Of The Day

  It is Tuesday February the 10th. The weather is getting better. It snows once a while. Not any snow storms.  Just flurries and light snow. That adds up to the top of the snow already piled up on the sides of roads. Paths are a bit slippery, not safe to walk for the people of my age. We have to be extra cautious while getting out in this weather. City workers do their job as much as they can. Roads are clear. They clear the walkways too.  It is still slushy and with icy patches here and there. I don’t feel safe to walk. Not their fault. It is the weather. It's nearly the middle of February. The winter season is about to be over. A couple of weeks to go. Spring is just around the corner. We are in much better shape here in Toronto. My daughter, the eldest one, called from Edmonton. They have heaps of snow all around. The winter always used to be too long and drastic over there. The weather is getting better in Edmonton. They have 2 C now. Not good for them. It resulted in...

  This February looks tough, not like the years ago. Our winter days in Canada start by the end of September.  It starts becoming harder as the time goes by. December sometimes we get snow by the end of the month and have white Christmas.  Sometimes we get snow in January. In January there is snow most of the time. February is tough in the entire winter season. This year winter is really hard. We started having snow storms for the last couple of weeks. January was not the same as the past years. We are still not out of that. Today is 7th of February and we are having 20 C below zero feels like 35 C below. My walks outside are on hold. I now have to switch my walks. Now I have to go to Pickering Town Center. To top up my steps. Tim Hortons used to be a second home for me. I used to spend my time enjoying myself on the days I was off from my work. On those days I didn't have to go to play Darts in the library. The library I use is like my work place. Nothing wrong with maki...

    It's a beautiful bright sunny morning. The sun is shining up and above in full bloom to make our days brighter.  So nice of him. It is 12 C below zero today. Much better than the last couple of weeks. Snow is on the way tomorrow. Let's see how the weather will be after that. For now I am enjoying my time. My walks are still on hold. I think it will take a while to start with.  The walkways are not totally safe for me. I am not going to take any chances. Health and safety has always been taken into account for making any plans. We don't have to be too ambitious. Too excited to cross limits. Don't have to go beyond what we are not able to handle safely. I just have to relax. We have to get busy with the things easily tackled. Nowadays Pickering Town Center is sort of my second home. Tim Hortons is under renovation. We have to switch to make our day with whatever available. We have to go with the flow. Nothing has to be taken as the end of the world. Time keeps on f...

   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...

  It's a windy cold day with 19 C below zero feels 25 C below. Not usual for Toronto.  Gusts are around 60 km. It is not good to go for a walk. The snow is still around. The walkways are usually cleared off. I think there will still be some icy patches on the way because of the weather condition. I will skip my walk today. Whatever is there is there. Have to accept We always have our plan “ B” ready to switch. I just checked my table calendar. I have to do my hair wash. I also have to wash my clothes. Just a small load of laundry. I have to make some calls too. I think I have enough to get busy indoors. I will spend some time in my kitchen making something for my family to put at the dinner time. I am happy. Nothing to worry about. I have enough to make my day. My grandson, the youngest one, just came to my room to let me know that he will go to gym in about half an hour. He told me to drop anywhere on the way. So nice of him. I quickly switched my plans from plan “ B “ to pla...

    One more day, one more morning. I feel lucky to get more chances to do what I want.  To plan about the things I was not able to go forward with. I have time now to go ahead. We have to take one day at a time. Take mornings as the face of our day. Try to welcome it with a smiley face. No matter how hard our nights are. Just forget it. Keep it behind like your past. The past is done. We have to believe. Try to move forward with high spirit. We can't change anything with our past. To think about the days are done is just a waste of time Try to filter your moments. We have to rewind only the moments of happiness. We have to filter out the memories of our struggles. We all have ups and downs all through the journey of life. Life is  a combo with mixed moments. Sometimes we have to pass through the troubled roads on the way. We have to admire how we handled all that. Admire to deal with sweet and the moments hard and bitter. Never feel pity for yourself. Never take you...

  It is a beautiful morning today. The winter storm is done. Lots of snow is still around.  Roads and pathways are cleared.Thanks to the city workers. It is too slushy.Not a good situation to walk for people of my age. I don't have to get carried away. Not going to take any chances. The weather is great. It is 2 C not below zero. It just started drizzling. Not a heavy rain. It is 10.30. My son is planning to go to the gym. I will go with him to the Pickering Town Center.  Town Center is just opposite to the gym. He will drop me there on the way. I will enjoy my time and my coffee at the mall. It is 11.15, I am walking in Town Center to top up my steps.  We don't have much chance to add up our steps in winter time. Winter is tough in Canada. We are not able to go for our walks most of the time. The months of January and February are really tough to manage. We have to take cars to go to malls. To stay indoors and to have some walk over there. We take our chances in bet...

  It's a cloudy morning, hazy sky. The sun has taken a break today I think. It has been snowing since night.  The weather channel predicted that it would snow all day long. I can see a thick slab of ice on the glass top of my steel garden table. The red garden chair my son got from the Canadian Tire store years ago is loaded with ice. Lush green grass in my back garden is covered under a thick white blanket. The situation is the same with my front garden. The red wooden bench is half embedded under snow and loaded with a thick white cushion. The trees around look like skeletons decorated with white powder. The white Cottony like flowers making the trees beautiful. It is an amazing atmosphere to behold. Every season is unique with its own beauty. So is the winter. It is so calm and peaceful all around. The cars on the driveways in my neighborhood are standing waiting for orders to move. I can't see anyone outside. I think people are enjoying their time indoors with their famili...

  Another brand new day, another bundle of twenty four hours.  We humans are so lucky to have so much every morning. Opportunities to do what we want. What we wish to do. We get another chance. Chance to carry on our left out plans. Another chance to work on our dreams to make it happen. Mornings are great. We have to value it with open hearts. Try to welcome every morning with a smiley face. Sometimes our nights are not good. We can’t sleep well. Our body parts are not listening to us to calm down to let us have a good night sleep. At the later stages of our life we start getting so many other things to sort out in our days as well as in our nights. We don't have to overshadow our morning’s beauty with the baggage of our problems. Try to take your day like a clean slate. Start with a positive attitude. Get ready to print something positive. Take mornings like a gift from God Almighty. Don't have to ruin that with our negative thoughts. God won't be happy with that. Take a ...

  It's nearly mid January wintry days and still not much snow around.  I see only silver linings on the walkways and a low white fence of snow by the roadside. It is the beauty of Toronto that snow here doesn't stay long. I remember the winter in Ottawa. I used to live there around thirty years ago. Winter was tough over there. Ice used to float on the surface of water even in the month of May. Snow piled up all around the city and looked like a hillock. We had to deal with the frozen doors of cars and to start also used to be a challenge. Here in Toronto we don't have to deal with such problems. Today the weather is nice. It is still cold and windy. There are no icy patches, that is enough to go for a walk. We have to make use of the available circumstances. Things change, so is life. Our health will not be the same as today. Anything might happen at any age God forbid. We can't predict what will be in the coming days. We have to make our present, our today. Take one d...

  Beautiful day. The weather is great for a couple of days. No icy patches on walkways.  I am no longer scared to go for my walk. It is 9.30, I started my day a bit late today. We humans are not robots. We can not go on strict timetables. So many factors influence our mood. It takes turns in whatever direction it wants to. Our mood reflects on our entire personality. How we start our day. How our nights go all depends on our moods. Everything around us influences our mood. Our mood is the key to how our attitude goes. Our happy moods take us to a positive attitude. Everything looks good. Nothing bothers. When we are not in a good mood things start bothering us. We start getting irritated out of nothing. Our attitude dips all the way from positive to negative. Our perspective changes entirely. The people around, friends and family all. We start looking at them as selfish people. We start losing interest in life. Thinking of ourselves as losers, unlucky. We are used by the peopl...

  Today the weather is great. No snow, no rain. It's a bright beautiful sunny morning.  I am planning to go for my walk after a long time. I was not taking any chances because of icy conditions.  Most of the time the walkways are cleared off still some icy patches are there to deal with while walking through. We have to be careful not to get carried away. We still have so many other things to get busy. To enjoy our time indoors. We have to make adjustments accordingly. Anyway I am all set ready to walk. Ready to enjoy my time outdoors. It is 10.30, I am at Tim Hortons. This is sort of my second home. The library I take as my work place. I take playing Darts as my working part time. I think there's nothing wrong with making things up to boost yourself. To elevate your mood. At the later stage of life after our retirement we need to work on to maintain the health of our mind and body. To feel good, to elevate our mood and attitude has to be a priority all the time. It is mo...

  It is a cold bright morning of the 6th of January. Chances of freezing rain ice pallets later on.  My walk outside is on hold for a while. Safety is a priority for everyone. We have to be extra careful at the later stages of our life. It looks like a different scenario with snow all around. The trees are decorated with white powder and loaded with cottony flowers. It is so peaceful, calm and quiet. Winter is the time to take a break. To stay indoors. To focus on your inner self. Time to talk to yourself. To listen to your inner thoughts. Time to take a break from your busy schedules. Every season has its own beauty. Its own identity. We can plan accordingly, to get busy and enjoy our time. We humans are amazing. We can make adjustments with any of our surroundings. Winter is the time to skate to play ice hockey. To plan skiing and ice fishing. It's time to hit the water. It is the time to take a break from hitting roads and trails. We have a different scenario for now. Birds...

  Today the New Year is three days old. It is not brand new anymore. People are done with the celebrations.  It is the first weekend of 2026. I am at Tim Hortons enjoying my coffee making my day. We have to start our day with anything we like to enjoy. Mornings are the face of our days.  Try to give color to your Mornings. I know that we have lots of things at the back of our mind. We humans are not robots and also life is not a bed of roses. Life is like a combo. It is like a mixed plate. We get so many ups and downs throughout the journey of our life. We have to keep on facing difficult moments along with our happy days. Life I believe is like a trail. Like an unsaved path with bushes around. We have to keep on looking for the flowers to pick to make our days Patience is a virtue. It always works to handle whatever  comes on the way through the journey of our life. It manages our attitude and also controls our mood swings. I think life is the same for everyone, mix...

  Happy New Year to all my Dear Readers Today is the first morning of the year 2026. We have to be grateful and admire ourselves. We managed to go through and to deal with all the matters for the entire year successfully. We are stepping into another year. God Almighty chose us to grant one more year. The whole bunch of 365 days. We can make plans, to experiment with trial and error. Everyone of us is now having lots of time onwards to do the things we dreamed of. The things we liked to do and were not able to start last year. We can accomplish all that. We now have time in hand.The first month of every year comes with lots of positivity. We feel energetic, ready to start things. Ready to make plans. That kind of energy sustains for a couple of months. We start losing our stamina after a while to cope with the projects we started. We always get carried away with the list we plan for the upcoming year. We never realize to take our energy, our personality into account. Our plans most...