Thought Of The Day

  The weather is great. Not too hot. Not too humid. Beautiful morning. Cool breeze with 24 C.  It's 10.30 in the morning. I am just out of the dentist office. Dentist appointments at my age are a bit scary. Not only Dentist, any Dr appointment is not at my welcome note. We won't be getting A grade in our report card from any of the doctors. We know that our body is old and needs repairs and replacement of some of our body parts. We know any doctor won't be able to give us a clean slate. Not even the passing marks. Anyway this is life. We have to accept whatever there is with patience. We have to realize that we enjoyed our life with this body of ours, much stronger than today. Nothing is forever. Life keeps on changing and so does our body. We undergo a systematic change throughout our life. Change from our childhood to kids to teens to adults and finally to the later stages of life. We managed and accepted every stage of life with open hearts so what's wrong now. I bel...

It's a hot humid day. August has already started and it's still hot. I think there is one week to go.  We will have a different scenario after that. Mid August will not be the same. Anyway we have to adjust accordingly. We can not change anything.  Not the weather, atmosphere and even the people around. The only thing that comes in our jurisdiction is our own self. We can change our dressing accordingly to manage our day schedule. We can change our mood to coordinate with the people to manage relationships. We are the masters of our domain. We don't have to undermine our power. We have total command to change ourselves in the direction we want to. Try to be a positive person. Polite and humble. No one likes arrogant people. It is difficult to be friends with a person with a negative attitude. Things go on changing throughout lives. Moments are not the same all the time. We come across many bitter moments to handle. Accept whatever comes on the way with patience. Patience i...

  Beautiful morning. Great day. It is a long weekend. Monday is closed too. I don't have to go to work.  No playing Darts on Monday. I have other plans to switch. Kids are home sleeping. They take their time not in a hurry. Start their day not too early. My son is awake. He is an early riser. Everyone else is not awake. It is a bit quiet at my place. The same is the situation in my neighborhood. I like to start my day early. I am  getting ready for my walk to the coffee house to enjoy my time. We have to find things to give color to our life. It boosts our will power. Elevates our mood. Helps to change our attitude. Our perspective to look at life. It matters at every age. It is the key to managing the later stages of our life. Attitude matters how we take our life. We have to find how to give color to our days. Every moment matters. Try to enjoy what you have. Some days are hot and burning. Some days are cold and freezing. Some days our body parts are not in shape to fol...

  Another hot morning. Humid, the sun is shining in full bloom. The  month of July is nearly done.  Just one more day to go. It is 9.15 in the morning. I have to do my laundry. I will put my comforter in the washer. It is bulky so it will take longer to wash.  I don't do that so often. Just a couple of times in a year. Too much work to handle. I will do that now after that I will have my breakfast. By the time I will be done with my laundry. I will start getting ready for my walk. We have to organize things to streamline our time table for the day. After our retirement, we have to manage things on our own. We still have twenty four hours to handle. It is a hot day so I have to pick something light to wear from my wardrobe. I picked my flowery georgette top. Very light and not a see through one. It reminded me of my friend. I bought it from the Bay departmental store with her. Decades ago we used to go to the Scarborough Town Center to enjoy our time together. She use...

  It is a great morning.Beautiful day sunny and bright. Not gloomy. You feel good on these days.  The sun is there up and above shining in full bloom to make our days brighter. To elevate our mood. We feel energetic, ready to make plans to fill up our day schedules. I put my indoor chores aside. Try to get out to enjoy the outdoors. To be with nature to behold and absorb the beauty of the outside. It is 9.40, I am all set to leave. It is 25 C, feeling like 30. I am out of the house and what surprised me. The small brown rabbit was sitting in my front garden. Sitting so peacefully. So content. I think everyone likes to enjoy this sort of weather. My friend, the brown rabbit, came out of his house to be outdoors, to enjoy. He is also enjoying his morning feast in my front garden. My right foot has not been in good shape for a couple of weeks. I am skipping my walk today. My eldest grandson is going to the gym. He is dropping me at the Coffee House. So nice of him. We have to tak...

  It is a beautiful bright morning. Hot and sunny. The weather is like a roller coaster nowadays.  Yesterday it was on a cooler side. Today it is a different scenario. Hot feeling like 28 C. It is a matter of a couple of weeks. It will change by the middle of August. I have a busy day today.  My friends invited me for a get together. I have to go for that around 1.30. I decided to go for my walk before that. It is 10.15, I  am sitting in the Coffee House, enjoying my coffee and my time alone. I try to avail my time alone whenever I can. For me, a time alone slot is the key to get inner peace. To manage our patience, our blood pressure and mood swings. We have to include what we like to do while making our day schedules. Everyone is different with his own personality. It is a must to have a time slot for the hobbies we like to get busy with. That will be our own time to enjoy ourselves. The time we spend here in this world must not have to be taken like homework. We h...

  It's a rainy day, hazy morning. The sun is taking a break, I think, everyone needs a break.  Nothing wrong with that. Not his fault. The sky is all overcast, covered under a grayish sheet. It was raining early in the morning. The rain droplets look like pearls in my garden on the grass. The colors of all the seasonal flowers look a bit brighter. The trees around look happy. I believe that rain makes a big difference in everyone's life. Water plays a key role in our life. It cools us down. It helps to change our mood, tilting towards a positive side. It helps us to be patient. We like to take a break to relax before reacting. I think we have to take a glass of water to cool us down at the time we feel pressure. That manages our blood pressure also helps not to react right away. We come across various cross sections of people on the way of our life. The people with nature are not coordinating with us. Sometimes it is not easy to get along. We feel pressure to deal with the sit...

  It's early morning. The sun is in full bloom, bright, shining from up and above to make our day brighter.  My friend the White Butterfly is whispering to the pink Canadian roses. The Butterfly is sharing something secretly. I think they are close friends.  The roses are smiling, shaking their bodies. They are enjoying her company. Friends are friends. It was raining yesterday. I didn't have to water my garden. The grass is green.The trees look happy. The flowers are giving smiles. My deck is all clean. All of my four red knitted steel garden chairs are shining under the sunlight. The glass top of my steel garden table is clean too. I am done with my breakfast. It is 9.15, I am getting ready for my walk. Today I woke up quite early at 5.30 in the morning. Every day your body behaves differently. It gives you surprises to deal with. I gave my body time to revive. That worked. I was out of my bed at 8.15. Enough time for my body to get ready to cooperate with my plans. We ...

    It's a rainy day, humid morning. Some days you plan something and you have to switch for something different.  So many factors come up to manage things you planned. We have to switch. Change our plans to do something else to make our day. We have to change ourselves at different stages of life. Sometimes we change consciously. We have to change to coordinate with the situation and the people around in the household, at school and workplace. Most of the time the change comes automatically. We grow up from a child to a kid after that to teens and systematically reach to the later stages of life. The weather keeps on changing. The winter to summer to spring to fall. The cycle is so systematic just like our cycle of life. The same is with our days. The mornings change to noon to evenings and finally to nights. I salute the Creator. Everything is on auto. The system keeps on running according to what He planned. He brings some changes sometimes. I think it is to give us a ...

  Mornings are the face of our day. We have to welcome our mornings. We have to feel lucky to get another day and one more morning. Welcome that with smiley face. God is kind enough to allocate us another bundle of twenty four hours. We can do with what we like to. How to spend that. This is our bank account. It has to be used by the end of the day. This is sort of our daily time allowance. Next day our time sheet has to be all clean. God will open our new account for another day. We are free to chalk out our plans for the day. Find your hobbies. Go for a walk. Do gardening. Watch your favorite shows. Day dreaming, bird watching. Enjoy reading books / magazines. Have tea  / coffee sitting at your favorite spot in  the house  / apartment / coffee house. Your choice. This is your own account. You are not answerable to anyone. You have liberty how to spend and where to spend. I usually try to mix things up. Divide my time into slots every day. Something to get physical....

It's a very hot day with heat warnings on the weather channel. It looks a bit quiet in my neighborhood.  Very few birds, just a couple, sitting under the Maple tree. The Black Squirrel is also missing. I can't see him. He may be early for his exercises. He takes the wooden fence in my backyard like his gym. The trees around are quiet too, trying to cope with the weather. It is Tuesday, I don't go to work on Tuesdays. I have to chalk out my time table to do other things for the days I am not working. I  have to do my laundry. Change my bed sheets and towels. I have to make some calls. I can do that later. It is 10.15, early morning. I have to get ready for my walk. I can manage now, later on it will be hot. We have to take our health, our caliber to manage and safety while starting anything. It has to be a top priority especially at the later stages of our life. The weather is important to check before heading out. Too hot and too cold won't be easy to manage. We know h...

  It was raining yesterday. Flowers are in full bloom, giving a smile.  The trees also look happy, shaking their heads. The grass in my garden is lush green. My deck is washed. Looks neat and clean. It is the weekend, I am at Frenchman Bay by the lakeside. The water is sparkling under sunshine. Swans on the lake giving a beautiful view. A couple of dragon boats are on the surface too. People are busy with fishing. Some are walking with their dogs. Some are with kids. I am on the Deck side now. It gives you an amazing experience. I feel that I am on a ship and the ship is sailing. I come here sometime to have a feel of that. It reminds me of my trip to Hamburg in Germany. It was decades ago. I was visiting my daughters in England. One of my daughters was going to Hamburg for two nights. Short trip with her husband's parents and brother's families. She arranged for me too. I was part of the group. We enjoyed that. Trips you enjoy with the right company. Company matters a lot to ...

Another hot morning, another hot day. The summer is here in full bloom.  We know it will be short just for a couple of more weeks to go. We take it. We know that the summer is going to be tough. Every season here in Canada is intense and in full bloom. The same is winter. We face 30 C below zero in our couple of freezing days. It is 11.30, not so bad 24C feels like 30. My Uni friend just called. She lives in Markham 20 minutes away from my place in Pickering. I don't drive and neither does she. We used to make calls to keep our connections alive. Friends of about your age are like novelty, like gems. We can relate what we share. We can talk about the shows we like to watch. It looks like we are at the same wave length. We can talk about the time of our era. The era we used to live decades ago. It looks good that the person can relate to all that. What we are talking about, the person at the other end understands. It gives a unique satisfaction, inner peace. It is a sort of meditat...

  The weather is slightly better, still hot and humid. It's 8.30 in the morning and 24 C feels like 30 C.  I will quickly make my breakfast and after that get ready to go for my walk. It is 9.30, I am walking by the Whites Road. It is not busy. Not much traffic here. I think it is Sunday people will be enjoying their time at home. People like to start their day not so early on weekends. Some of them, especially teenagers, might still be in bed. They enjoy their weekends staying late at night. They take their lives differently making full use of their time in hand. I take them like my role models. Smiley faces, bright eyes. It looks like life is all good for them. They don't take the ups and downs of the days ahead seriously. I think they trust their confidence to handle whatever will be coming on the way. I salute their confidence and attitude towards life. I am enjoying my walk. It is hot and humid, but I am ok with that. I already selected my tops out of my wardrobe for the ...

Summery days, hot mornings. Flowers blooming, grass lush green.  Birds around. Squirrels are busy playing hide and seek in gardens. People planning for parties outdoors. It is time to hit roads, waters and trails. We People have just a couple of weeks to enjoy our summer in Canada. We try every chance to make use of it. We were waiting for a long time to enjoy these days. We know that we have to bundle up after a while in our intense winter days. We are enjoying our time for now. We will handle whatever will be there in the coming days. We humans are able to make adjustments accordingly. It is 8.30 in the morning. I am out of my bed. I used to switch on my computer the first thing in the morning. I check the weather to coordinate with my day plans. It is 37C for now. It will be 43 C later on. I think it is better to go out for my walk now. I will have a quick breakfast and will be ready. It is 9.15, I am leaving for the Coffee House. It is hot and humid. There's nothing a total pl...

  It is a hot morning with 41 C, it will be 43 degrees later on. Every season is intense here in Canada.  All four seasons come in full bloom with full intensity. We can have a feel of every season and enjoy the flavors of each. It was just a couple of weeks ago I had to use a jacket and gloves for my walk. It is totally a different scenario now. Tough to select what to wear in this temperature. One of my grade five school friends just called. She used to live in London downtown, Regent street. I have great memories of staying at her place for a couple of nights. We used to go for our day out plans.   Museums, gardens, restaurants, Que Gardens, together we visited in our good old days. Things change. She moved to her daughter in the Netherlands, visiting her brother here in Canada. She is leaving tomorrow, so she called me. I don't know if it is a good bye or if we meet again somewhere, some other time. We never know. It is a small world, a global village. Let's see. Her ...

  Beautiful morning, great weather. It is 11.30, 20 C, perfect to go for a walk. Not too cold, not too hot.  Flowers of all colors are in full bloom. The grass is lush green. There is so much green all around. It's time to cherish your moments.Time to enjoy the outdoors. Summer season is not long here in Canada. We value each and every moment we can avail in these couple of months, June is nearly done, we have only July, and from mid August things will start changing. It reminds me of England. My daughters from there are talking about the weather over there. It is too hot. It's not easy to be without fans. We feel lucky to enjoy this cozy weather in the month of June. My garden is back to life. The pink Canadian roses plant is loaded with flowers all around. The seasonal flowers of all colors, golden yellow, purple, white and blood red are adding colors to my garden. Looks like the flowers are smiling, enjoying too. Squirrels are playing around the trees. The two tall trees in...

   It is a beautiful morning after a couple of hot days. It is cloudy, still not gloomy. Hazy with overcast not dark at all.  We don't have to turn on the lights. We are enjoying the drizzle, the view. Scenic to behold. The red, gold, purple, white flowers all look happy taking their morning shower. The pink Canadian roses are enjoying the most. They are dancing, shaking their bodies with a big smile. It is Sunday, 11.30 am. I already planned my day. I will walk to the coffee house with my tablet to write my blogs. I will take calls too over there. I usually stay there for a couple of hours. It is good to be with your own company for a while. It works like a meditation. We need some time alone for our own selves. No interruption. No outsider has to be there. Sometimes we need to talk alone with ourselves. Listen to our inner thoughts. It helps to get peace inside deep down. We don't have time for that so often. There has to be a time slot planned in our day schedule. Not ...

  Spring is the time of revival.Time for things coming back to life. The trees around are no more like skeletons anymore.  They are loaded with greens. The gardens are also lush green. No more brown patches in between. Squirrels are playing hide and seek in gardens. Running up and down on trees to enjoy their time. Birds are! on tree tops calling each other I think to join the party out. The small brown rabbit just came enjoying his feast in my back garden. He loves grass. Sometimes he enjoys some of my flowers too. It is a hot day, 11.15 in the morning 29C. I am getting ready for my walk. The summer time is different. Easy to dress up. No more getting ready with layers, heavy coats, gloves and woolen stole. I have a couple of light tops to wear on summer days. It is just a few more weeks. Things will start changing from mid August. In September we will need jackets to go outside. We are enjoying our time for now. Not thinking about the days ahead. We learned to adjust our Can...

   It's a hot humid morning, predicting 37 C later on. It is 11.30, started drizzling. I am in my backyard.  The flowers, red, purple, gold and white are giving my back garden a beautiful look. Scenic and eye-catching view. My son used to be busy with his wife in the evenings working in the garden. People know that they have just a couple of weeks to enjoy the outdoors. We don't have much time to do things in our garden in Canada. We have all four seasons in Canada, but our winter is a bit longer here. We try to enjoy making adjustments. Spring time will be gone and there will be Fall after. We wait for that too to enjoy the colors. The trees look great with all shades of green, yellow. bright red, orange and copper. It used to be an amazing atmosphere. We are enjoying our spring time for now. I am going for my walk to the Coffee House. The front gardens on the way looked beautiful. The plants around are loaded with all green. Yesterday was a big day for me. My childhood ...