Thought Of The Day

      It's morning, time to have breakfast. The weather looks great, not too cold. I am sitting on one of the red knitted chairs in my back garden. My son got four of these steel chairs years ago from Home Depot. We don't use these chairs so often. Just in a couple of summer days we get a chance to have a seat here to enjoy our back garden. Not on rainy days and not in winter time. Summer for us in Canada comes like a visitor. It doesn't stay long. We look forward to summer days to get ready to hit roads and waters. We all know that it will be short. We try to make maximum use of its short and sweet stay. This is the beauty of Canada that every season is intense, comes in full bloom. Summer time sometimes we have to come across scorching temperatures with plus forty centigrade. Sitting in gardens won't be comfortable on those days. Today is like some of the days as the weather is great. Perfect to sit outside to enjoy the back garden. My deck is all washed...

    The weather is great. Blood red David Austin roses are smiling in the flower bed at the back of my garden.  The flower bed is looking great with pink, purple, white and deep orange flowers. August is nearly done. Today is the 28th. Time flies fast. The new year of 2025 is not new anymore. I came back from England a couple of days ago. It looks like I have never been away from my home. Things are back on track. I started working part time, going to play Darts three days a week. We humans are unique. We are easily able to adjust to the surroundings. Manage to adopt whatever is available to make our time. Yesterday was a busy day for me. I was planning to sort my clothes after coming back from my work. I made it. I organized my closet.  All the clothes were on my bed to sort out. I packed some in my suitcase. I won't be needing those for a while in winter time. It's Thursday, I am off, no Darts today. We have to keep our plans ready to switch to get ours...

    It's the 24th of August 2025. Today is the first morning for me in Canada after six weeks. Home sweet home. We always miss that.  Sometimes we don't, much. Travel nowadays is so common. It is a small world now. Things have now changed from that in our time. Travel is very common, still families are far apart. Not able to make plans to see their loved ones. Kids like to travel to their favorite places with company of their choice. Their parents are busy with work and family. No time to plan to see their parents. We, parents, are at the later stages of our life. For us it's tough to go to visit them. We still try our best to connect with our kids and grand kids. Don't know for how long we are able to make that.  Every trip looks like that, this is the last one. May God keep us mobile to give us strength to make it for some more times. My trip to England is like a dream. With our loved ones every place looks wonderful. Every day with moments to cherish. My...

    Beautiful sunny morning. Rain has taken a day off. My days in Kent are about to be over.  My other daughter, the middle one, is coming tonight from Grimsby to pick me up.  Lucky me kids are not sick of their old mom yet. I have to appreciate their kindness and salute to their patience. At the later stages of our life, it's not easy for kids to track their parents. They are in a different time zone.  It's great of them to take some time off to be with us to give us company.  It's 8.15 in the morning. I am in the garden. My daughter is  in the kitchen making veggie omelets for breakfast. I am having my honey drink to start my morning.  One teaspoon of honey in warm water. I start my day with that. We can start what we like to brighten our day. Pink roses are looking great in the earthen pot by my left side. Scarlet red flowers smiling in the pot in front. One pigeon is wandering in the garden. Maybe looking for his friend to meet here...

    Beautiful morning, hot humid day. The sun is shining in full bloom. Weather in England is unpredictable just like its traffic.  Two days ago I was wearing a light jacket while I was walking around the High Street. Today is a totally different scenario. It's 9.15, I am done with my breakfast now sitting in the garden. Flower pots are lined up in front with beautiful roses.  I see a variety of shades and colors of roses pink, red and yellow. Tall trees are making the atmosphere very cozy. Two pigeons are walking by the pink roses flower pot. White cat with pitch black spots on her body is sitting on the fence.  I think she is done with her breakfast and came to give me company. So nice of her. Looks so calm and composed. I think she is enjoying her time. The air is loaded with fragrances from around. I hear a couple of birds having chit chat, sitting somewhere inside the tall tree. Two kids are playing with a ball in the garden next door. Such an ...

    It's June the 23rd, I am in a different city, in a different country, not in Toronto.  I believe now the world has become a global village. Boundaries don't mean anything. Just a map on the paper. Mixed families with different castes and creeds. Schools, colleges, universities and at work places, we come across with all sorts of people at the same premises. World is quite different from the time we were brought up. Classrooms with familiar faces of the kids from our neighborhood. Small town where everyone used to know everyone. Such a peaceful atmosphere. No hustle, no bustle, no rushing. Lots of time in hand. No pressure to finish up things right away. Time changed. Things change with time. Every era is not the same as the previous one. My mom also used to say that it has changed so much from her time. I think change is the beauty of life. Anyway, I am In England at my daughter's place. I started my journey from Toronto on the night of 20th June from th...

    It's 10.15, I am at Petticoat Creek. Beautiful view, beautiful morning. Water at the lake is looking great, deep blue, calm and quiet. Birds are chatting under the walking bridge. Maybe having a party. I can hear them loud and clear. Via the train, that connects America and Canada, is passing, on the overhead bridge. This train always reminds me of the times of my late youngest sister. She used to live in Chicago. Time flies. Memories linger on. Lots of people are here. Some are walking with their dogs. Some are busy with fishing. Some are walking around just like myself.  I am wearing a light jacket. Silk scarf, orange with a flowery pattern. My daughter, the middle one, gifted it to me. Couple of years ago while I was visiting her place, Grimsby in England. Days go by, beautiful memories, golden moments get stuck in our mind. Somewhere inside in our memory box. Like glistening jewels. We open up our memory box whenever we want. To enjoy our time to mak...

    Things change, life goes on. Every day, every moment there's a totally different scenario. To observe, to enjoy, to make our days.  Life is like an open book to write on the blank pages. I think it is like a combo with all the bitter and sweet. We come across so much on the way while passing through our stages of life.   It is like a roller coaster. We have to filter out our difficult moments۔ Keep on compiling our beautiful moments in the book of life.  Past is done. It won't be coming back. We can lock up our beautiful memories Inside our memory box. To open it up to have a feel, to brighten our day. Good memories are like stars, like jewels. Keep on glistening in the dark. Lock it up, we need them so many times to elevate our mood. To keep ourselves going.  We especially need them in the later stage of our life. We have lots of time. We can enjoy our memorable moments. I believe that we can name life, like a change. Change of weather, ch...

    April 12th 2025 Life is too short. We have to avail every moment to make our days. Not just try to make your own days.  Try to make the days of other people brighter too. We are here for a limited time. All are waiting for our calls to leave. Try to leave with good memories for the people behind. It's a beautiful sunny cold day. Sun is up and above smiling to make our day brighter. Everyone feels good to be with the company of Sun. Same is with the Moon and stars. They all come  smiling with happy faces.  Happiness is contagious. We all start to be indulged in happiness. Start keeping our bad moments aside. Our life has to be like them. Ready to make others happy. I am at Tim Hortons. Life is all good. No complaints. Thanks to God Almighty to keep watching over we people all the time. It's a festive atmosphere at the Coffee House. I enjoyed my time. Time to go home now. I am walking by the Whites Road. Skeleton trees started to come back to life...

    March 29th 2025 It's a cloudy rainy day. Rain just started and will be for the whole day. March will be done and in a couple of days April will start. April showers May flowers. It is great news that Spring will be here shortly. Flower beds will be back to life. Birds will start nesting. The Magnolia tree in my front garden, started budding already. The Magnolia tree is always the first one to let me know that Spring is just around the corner. My friend the Black Squirrel will be here for his workouts on the wooden fence of my back garden. The Canadian rose plant will be loaded with beautiful pink flowers all around. I can't wait to see all that. Atmosphere will be loaded with aroma and all kinds of fragrances. Skeleton trees will no longer be Skeletons. They all will be back to life. There will be so much green around. It will be a totally different scenario. We will start planning to hit the roads, trails and waters. People will be busy outdoors, going fish...

   March 15th 2025 It's 10 in the morning cloudy hazy day. Sun is not awake, still hiding under his grey blanket. I won't blame him.  It is weekend. Let him enjoy. I am getting ready to leave with my son. He is going to pick his son, the youngest one from uni. He has his exams today from 8 to 10 am. Universities have their own programs, own time tables. Exams even on weekends and at nights too sometimes. So much has changed from the things from our times. Zoom lectures online classes. Not in person like we used to do in our days. My eldest grandson just used to change his shirt for customer meetings. He is managing the sales department. Things are getting easier day by day. I think there's a cost to all this. We go on losing human touch. Family values are already at stake. Younger generation doesn't want to mix up with distant family members. They don't even know them. No time and no need for such extra matters.  To them this is all irrelevant. Waste o...

    March 4th 2025 Beautiful morning after days it is not snowing today. Chances of rain are 80% for all day. Let's see. Our weather channel's predictions are usually correct.  We Canadians rely on it. We start our day checking the forecast first thing in the morning to plan our day schedule. Our life is all around this channel. It plays a key part in our day to day life here in Canada. Today is my dentist appointment in the afternoon. Cars are out of the question as my daughter in law works in person. My grandson, the eldest one, works online. He is having an in-person meeting today.  He offered to change his schedule for my appointment. I was happy and thankful to him for his kind gesture. I told him that I can make it on my own. I know that sometimes we need support to streamline our things in life. I believe we have to try to handle it on our own until it's unavoidable.  It gives strength to ourselves and boosts our will power too. This is esp...

    Happy St Patrick day to all my Irish friends We in Toronto are in the middle of a couple of snow storms. There were two back to back with twenty five centimeters of snow. Thirty years ago I used to live in Ottawa. There we experienced heaps of snow. Winter days were tough. long for more than six months over there. People used to walk on the frozen lake surface. Snowflakes were floating on the lake water even in the month of May. Roads used to be cleared thanks to the city still snow used to be like hillocks around. Nowadays it's the same situation here in Toronto. City expects that it will take three weeks to clear all that mess. My walks are on hold for now. I try to go to the Coffee house to change my scenery whenever I can. My grandson goes to the gym. I coordinate with his schedule. My son was going to get groceries yesterday, He dropped me at Tim Hortons. Even the coffee house entrance was not safe. I was taking my steps very carefully. We try to get out...

    It's 10.30 in the morning. I am done with my breakfast and with browsing messages on my Facebook.Time now to get ready for my walk. I opened one of the drawers of my writing table. There I found so many small papers with my notes and dates. I got interested, and started reading couple of notes. In one of those, was written, “ 14th November 2018. It was a small note about my journey from Croydon, the place one of my daughters used to live. She moved to Kent about six years ago. It was about my trip from my daughter’s place to meet my younger sister. To take the bus # 109 to Brixton station from there the Blue line tube to Walthamstow station. That was the meeting point with my sister“. It took me back to the days when my younger sister was mobile. We used to coordinate meetings at various spots. She lives in Ilford, London England. Now she is not so mobile has to use a walker to move around. Things change so quickly. We never think about that till the time com...

    It's a cold windy morning, feels like 17 C below zero and the wind gusts 44 km. I will have to take precautions to go for my walk. I will do that later on. It is  9.30, I am  just done with my breakfast. Have to make some calls. I will do that now. Calls are important too. We have to mix and match our daily routine. We have to top up some other things along with our physical activities. To connect with the people around. Calls to friends and family members. To get busy with the things you enjoy. All this will help to boost up your mental peace. Your mood will get elevated. You start feeling up. That is enough to make your days. Life is a gift from God. To handle our life is in our own hands. He gave us liberty to deal with our lives in whatever way we want. Whatever we pick things to do is all our own choice. We can live life happily or make it full of misery, it is all up to us. Everyone has to come across some bitter moments in life. Life is like a...

    December 31st, 2024 Today is the last night of the year 2024. So much has changed for us. There must be a bundle of things, all mixed up. We have to come across so many ups and downs in our day to day matters. This is the beauty of life. Life is not stagnant. It is like a river moves on, no matter what.  We have to bid farewell to the year 2024 with good hearts. We must have some difficult moments during that time. We must have come across many wonderful moments during those days. We usually remember whatever we lose. Rarely give a thought about what we have. What we go on getting, we take it like we deserve all that. Never take it as a big deal.  The happy moments, our being in good health. The people around to talk. Nature to enjoy moments to make our days. The bundle of twenty four hours, we get every morning throughout our life. We can spend it wherever we want. Whatever we like to do with that time, we are allotted. Never any question asked in our entire lif...

     December 28th 2024 Couple of more days to leave this year behind and to enter a brand new year of 2025. I am sitting in a Coffee house. It's a festive atmosphere. Not many young people are here.  Most of the people are around my age, enjoying the company of their choice. Youngsters are busy with their take out orders. Drive through is very busy. It's 11.30, I am enjoying my small tea and the atmosphere around. Weather is good 2C, it is like summer for us in Canada. It's drizzling. I am going to Tim Hortons to enjoy my walk and my morning tea. I will put my cap on and will dress up properly. No worries. We have to manage circumstances to make our day. Sometimes we have to open up our memory box to dig out our golden moments, we spent, enjoyed and saved, to lock up in our memory box. Same is drizzling for me.  It reminds me of my childhood period. I used to get out in the rain and after a while my mom used to shout at me, “ come inside, you will ...

  December started about two weeks ago. New Year is on the way, and will be soon here. We had snow a couple of times. Today there is nothing just by the road side and by the side of walkways. Things have changed, I think, because of global warming. We now don't have heaps of snow and ice. I remember windchill used to be in September and snow used to start by November. From December to February used to be tough. People used to become tired like it will never end. I was in Ottawa thirty years ago. Winter over there used to be really tough. Ice floats on lake water even in March. Rideau Canal used to be changed into an ice skating rink. I joined a couple of things to get out to pass my cold days, long nights and short days. I used to get a monthly bus pass to move around. We have to find ways to make use of our time. Complaining won't help anything out. Nothing changes, we have to change our own self. Make plans according to the available circumstances. I joined Oxfa...

    October 19th 2024 Beautiful morning colors all around. My back garden is loaded with orange and brick red leaves scattered all over.  Everyone is sleeping in the house. My son and I are early risers. It is good to enjoy a couple of early hours before starting your day. It is like a breather, providing you relaxation. It works like meditation. It's 10.30, I am at Waterfront trails. My son has gone for his long walk. I am taking my time to behold everything around. It is a great scenic view. We have to take time to observe and absorb the beauty. We don't have to just tick marks. We have to stop to watch and to have a feel of that too. There is a long walking bridge. I am taking time to watch the view from there. Water running under, deep down. All sorts of natural flora, we can watch from this spot. It looks like we are in the midst of nature, away from city life for a while. What a view, what a natural beauty. Amazing. I can see leaves from light orange to deep red, al...

   8th October 2024 Another beautiful day. It's 10.30 in the morning. 13 C. Colder days are getting closer. As soon as we are done with our sleep before getting out of bed to start our new day. Try to give yourself some time out to relax to figure out what to do, from where to start. We are humans not robots. So many things affect our mood. Some of our days are tough. Some nights are difficult, we are not able to sleep well. Every day is different, bringing Its own matters to deal with. We have to figure out how to move with that baggage. To forget the past and focus on your present moment is great. My dear, this is all theory, not practically possible to follow. Our past is  always there with us, haunting throughout our life. We push it down to bury deep down. It never leaves our subconscious. We find ourselves struggling with that all our life. We try to distract ourselves, go out to spend time with friends. Try to get busy with making plans with trips and parties to es...