Thought Of The Day

    This is the month of October. Days are passing. The dates keep on changing. Time is flying. Things are changing and so is our life. The time of April showers and May flowers is already done. This is the time of changing colors. The green is fading away. The trees look a bit worried, scared about the days ahead. Not their fault. The winter in Canada is a bit tough. Today is the 10th of October, I have to pack for my trip to England on the 29th of this month. Toronto to London is a long flight, seven plus flying hours. From door to door it will be much longer. Anyway what is there is there. Kids are busy with work and their family matters. We parents have to make efforts to keep our connections alive. One of my grandsons is going to be married to start another phase of his life. Kids keep on growing. We keep on crossing the various stages of our life. Life doesn't wait. Moments keep on slipping. We have to enjoy every bit of our life. Time gone won't be back. Keep that in mi...

  It's the 29th of September. Two more months to go and the year 2026 will be a history like so many other years.  No one will be interested in talking about it. People will start making plans to welcome the new year to come.   Years ago 29th September 1976 was the day my husband died of a heart attack. It changed so much for me and my kids. Anyway I started working and my kids started growing up. Time flies, life goes on. Years keep on changing with its changed numbers. Kids are now settled busy with their own work and family. All five of them are scattered in various cities of Europe and Canada. My life also moved forward like everyone else. My work days are done. I am enjoying the golden days of my life. I think it is good to go with the flow. No use wasting our moments to get stuck to the past. We can not turn the pages. Life is a gift from God. We are here for a given time, waiting for our calls from Upstairs. Try to avail this opportunity to spread happiness. To put...

    Today is Saturday. another weekend. Another week will be starting. The weather stared changing. It is around the mid of September, getting colder a bit. The mornings are warmer. the evenings are not the same. To sit in gardens to enjoy your time is now running out. Just a couple of weeks to go to be outdoors. The birds will pack things to fly to the South of the Borders. The same will be with the Butterflies. They will all be leaving Canada before it will start snowing. My grandson. the youngest one has to go to his downtown Uni campus for some all day event. My son is driving him to drop him there. Parking in downtown is not easy to find. He has to be there before 10 in the morning for his project. I woke up quickly made my oatmeal porridge and dressed up to go with them. Toronto downtown has been changed so much with so many high rise towers. It started giving the look of the city of Chicago. somewhat. Thinking about Chicago, I start thinking about my late sister. She wa...

  It's 10.30 in the morning. I am walking by the Whites Road. The aroma of the freshly cut grass is scattered all around.  Beautiful golden yellow, violet, deep blue and white wild flowers are smiling. I think they are inviting us to join their company. I start thinking about the call of one of my community friends. We call sometimes to connect. To share our talks. She was feeling depressed. Her daughter was with her from Calgary for about a week. She left, back to her family. My friend was missing her company. She was feeling down and lonely. I started thinking how come anyone can be depressed. Feeling down and lonely. There is enough all around to make your day. We can be alone for a while. Never can be depressed with all this. To be alone for some time is a blessing in my dictionary. We need some time alone to get inner peace and harmony. I call it our quality time to value and cherish. Sometimes we are at a big party and still not enjoying our time. It depends on the compa...

  Great morning. Beautiful day. Clear sky. Blue and clean. The weather is great to enjoy your outdoors.  I am at Second Cup coffee house enjoying my coffee and my time. It is Wednesday, a working day for me too. I didn't go to the library to play Darts. I skipped. Day off.  I enjoyed my morning with my daughter. She is here for a couple of days from Grimsby, England. I didn't want to miss these moments to cherish. Family is family I believe. No matter what. Family always has to be taken as a priority. She now is enjoying the company of one of her Uni friends.   Her friend insisted that I join their company. I have known her well for a long time. I skipped. We have to avoid any situation to be an extra piece at any time, anywhere. They are friends. I won't fit there. We have to keep in mind not to take advantage of anyone's politeness. Sometimes people are too courteous, insisting us to come along to join to be a part of their group. We have to realize and decide on o...

  Every morning is different and unique, so is every day. The weather is a bit different, not the same.  The atmosphere around with a different scenario. We are not the same. We take mornings and days with different attitudes.  It all depends how we feel inside on that day. Sometimes things are not so good. The weather is too hot or sometimes too cold and we still feel good. We take everything with a positive attitude. Ready to go ahead to enjoy our time. Some days the weather looks perfect. The flowers are smiling, the birds are chatting. Nothing wrong with our sleep. Our body parts are also in good shape ready to cooperate with our plans. We are not ready. Something is missing. We are not in a position to enjoy our time.Something is missing from our inside. The peace inside I think. I believe there are so many factors that matter in our life. Not only the world outside decides how we take our mornings, our days. Sometimes we miss our loved ones not with us. They are gon...

  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...

  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's a new world. So different. So much has changed after COVID. So much has changed in decades.  Letters and postcards are the stories of the past. So are the telegrams. It is an era of Whats App. We don't need telegrams and long distance phone calls to break any news. Whats App is at your service running twenty four hours a day. We have to switch our phones off to get a break and to have some sleep. I put my phone on sleep mode at night. I check my phone first thing in the morning. We all are addicted to our phones. Why to blame our kids and teens. I got the news that my aunt passed away back home. I haven't seen her in decades.  She had severe dementia. She was close to me and my family. I have beautiful memories of the moments we spent together. Our brain acts like a power plant. It keeps itself connected to our mind and body. It starts rolling the clips from our cycle of life at the time we need any. He is always so sure that you like to share all that at th...

  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 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 ...

  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...

   We were just out of snow and now it's raining. We know that it is Canada. We need a break.  It is Saturday. Things are a bit quiet. People are dozing off or starting their day late enjoying taking their time at home. It is 9.30 in the morning, everyone is sleeping. Maybe they were awake till late night to enjoy the weekend. My son is awake and busy watching his program. TV is on, his laptop is also on. He is busy with that too. I think he is done with his breakfast now enjoying his day time. I am also done with my breakfast with my oatmeal porridge. I don't drink my morning tea / coffee. On the days I am working I use to have tea / coffee with my friends at the library with my senior club friends. The days I am off from work I mean not going to play Darts at the library, I walk to the coffee house to have coffee there to enjoy my time on my own. We have to chalk out our day plans on our own. No one will be coming to help us out to make our day. It happens only in stori...

  It is the 17th of April,10 in the morning. I am at Camberley. I came last night from Kent.  Three of my daughters are scattered in various parts of England. I am shunting between Grimsby, Kent and Camberley. I am now at Camberley on the last leg of my trip to England. Camberley is my youngest daughter's place. It is a beautiful small town in Surrey, England. She moved here from Reading a couple of months ago. My flight to Toronto is tomorrow at noon. I have to leave early in the morning from her place to Heathrow Airport. That will be the end of my two week trip to England from 3rd to 18th April. Today is the last day of my trip. My daughter has chalked out a full day of outdoor plans. My eldest daughter from Edmonton is also here. We three are on the way to Windsor Castle. We enjoyed walking around the Castle. Swans and boats were floating on the sparkling water surface. The weather was great. No rain, we still had to wear our winter coats. Pigeons were around adding up the...

  Just two days left for my trip to England. The weather over there is a bit cold. Frost and chilly.  My daughters called me to get a winter coat, gloves and woolen stole everything for there. Travel nowadays is a bit tricky. Especially for the people of our age. England is seven plus hours from Toronto. On the way back it will be eight hours. Half an hour extra. Going on trips everything will not be the same. The weather, the room we are used to and our bed. We people already have to face so many sleepless nights in our own room, in our own bed. I don't know what will be there with everything changed. I think nothing comes with a total plus. We have to accept some negatives to make our time. I am going to attend my granddaughter's wedding. All of my daughters, my son and my daughter, the eldest one will also be there from Edmonton. Everyone will be there with their families. I will see my entire family and my one year old great granddaughter too.  Amazing moments of my ...

It is 10 in the morning. Beautiful sunny day bright morning. The weather is also great.  It is 2 C below zero, feels like 8 below. I can see from my window that the walkway looks clear. I have to make some calls after that I will try my luck to go for my walk. I have to call my sister-in -law back home.  Phone calls to your loved ones help to make your day. My husband passed away decades ago. I am still connected with his family members. My daughters call me every time around noon. They go back from work at that time.   They are five hours ahead of my time in Toronto. I have to go to England early next month. One of my granddaughters is to be married. I am excited for my trip to see three of my daughters, my grand kids, my sister and so many other loved ones. My eldest daughter will also be coming from Edmonton to attend the wedding ceremony. I feel lucky to see all of my family. I am happy, still under pressure. I am having mixed emotions, I think. Travel at the later s...

   It's Sunday 9.15 in the morning. I am done with my breakfast. It started snowing. This year snow started early and is still going on. We have already had enough of it. Trees are loaded with white stuff. We have to clear off snow every morning from our cars and driveways. Snow is along the roadside sort of snow banks.  Snow removal trucks are busy most of the time on roads. I salute all the front line workers for their work and patience. I checked my table calendar. I have to change my bed sheets. I will do laundry now. It is just a small load. I will change the sheets and make my bed later. I will take out the lilac color of sheets from my linen closet.  Change of anything always adds up colors. It helps to elevate our mood. Controls our mood swings. We have to look for any change. Wherever we can, we have to take it. It is 1.30, I am done with my laundry and taking some calls. I don't make calls on weekends. People must be busy enjoying their family time. We have...

Beautiful day bright sunny morning. Snow now is not causing any problems. All the snow is piled up by the roadsides.  The walkway is cleared of snow. I can’t see any icy patches here. The weather is also great, it's no more below zero. I am getting ready for my walk after a long time.  I think I might have forgotten how to walk outdoors. Let's see. I am all set to take my chances. The snow is not here now so much water is on the path, making it a bit messy to walk on. I have my joggers on. I think it will be fine. I am enjoying my walk. We have to look at the brighter side. Always take as, “ The glass is half full not as half empty. “. Everything comes in life with some positives and some negatives. It is always like a combo. Nothing is total plus. We have to look at the brighter side. That helps in changing our perspective of things in life. Try to make your days with whatever is available. Things change, so does the weather and so is our health. Nothing is there to persist ...

  Another beautiful day. Another beautiful morning. Bright and sunny. It was snowing last night, not much, still enough.  Lots of snow is piled up around the side of shopping malls. Heaps of snow are by the road sides. The walkways are a bit slippery for me to walk on. I have to be patient and take a break. We have to think twice before making plans. Not have to be too ambitious. Health and safety have to be taken as top priority all the time. No compromises on safety. Spring is just a couple of weeks away anyway. It is not a big deal. Not the end of the world. We have so many other options to get busy to enjoy our time. We can do some physical activities at home too. Water plants, busy in the kitchen, walking around in our house  / apartment. Any chances to go to shopping malls will be a bonus like cherry on top. I feel lucky whenever my son or any one of my three grandsons will take some time off to give me a ride to get out. We have to keep track of the time table of t...

  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...