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 cloudy morning. It has been raining all night. I have my dentist appointment today.  Dentist appointments at our age are not welcomed. We don't know how many teeth will be left after we leave the clinic. This is life my dear. Whatever is there we have to accept with patience and grace. We don't have to forget that we enjoyed our life for all those years. It is time now to slow down. To take a break from enjoying some of the things. Not a big deal to manage with whatever is left. We still have enough to enjoy. Life is not the same. It goes on changing. We have to accept the change and manage accordingly. We were running throughout all the stages of our life. We need a break now. It is time to take a pause. To smell the roses. To absorb the beauty around. To smell and have a feel of the fragrance of nature scattered around. We never had time for all that. We were always in a hurry. Very busy with our work and our family matters. We have time now. Time to enjoy eve...

  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 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 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 ...

It's a beautiful day, breezy morning. Perfect weather to go for a walk. The trees are loaded with green.  The gardens are back to life with beautiful flowers of all colors. The grass is lush green with no brown patches in between. The blood red David Austin is still on break. I can't see any flowers. The same is with the pink Canadian roses. Everyone is different. The same is with plants. They behave and react to the atmosphere taking their own time. The small brown rabbit is sitting quietly at the right by the flower bed. A couple of brown birds with yellow patches on their belly are enjoying their morning walk under the Maple tree. The white Butterfly is whispering to the purple flowers. My son planted a white planter on the weekend with his wife. This is all so peaceful and scenic to behold. To cherish and enjoy a sort of meditation. I am outside in my back garden, sitting on one of the red knitted steel garden chairs. My son got four of these from the Canadian Tire store y...

  It's a cloudy, hazy morning. The sun is not fully awake to brighten our day. I am also a bit late to start my day.  I missed my friend the Black Squirrel. He comes early in the morning for his exercises. A couple of light brown birds with yellow beaks are walking in my back garden. The grass is green.  The red, violet, and gold flowers my son and his wife planted a couple of days ago are giving color to my garden. I can't see the brown rabbit، maybe he is still in bed, starting his day late like me. Some days are not so good or maybe we are not in a good shape to handle things. I believe life is the same for everyone. It is the same at all the stages of our life. It is like a combo with mixed moments. Some sweet, some sour and some are bitter. We have energy to handle, to deal with the things at the earlier stages of our life. Our body is not so strong, our nerves also not the same at the later stages of life. We don't feel strong enough to deal with the same as we get ...

      Happy Easter to my friends in Ireland and others too. The weather is great, 2C not below zero. No snow, no rain. Amazing. I am enjoying my walk after so long. We have to wear our winter coats and gloves. Not have to bundle up. I see a tinge of green running through the bodies of the skeleton trees around. The grass in my garden is on its way back to lush green. The red wooden bench at the right side of my front garden is out of snow. It looks nice shining under the sun, giving color to the atmosphere. The Magnolia tree at the left in my garden is about to start budding. It is always the first one to announce the arrival of the spring. It is amazing to look at the Magnolia tree loaded with beautiful light pinkish flowers all around. The Renovation work at the Twin Towers looks all done. Its apartments are now I think ready to rent out. I see so many birds inside the two trees which are located in my next door neighbor's front garden. I call these two trees the “Twin ...

It's a bright sunny, beautiful morning. The thick slab of ice on the glass top of my steel garden table is gone.  The red garden chair my son got from the Home Depot store years ago is shining at the left corner of my back garden. No heavy cushion of snow there. My outdoor walks are back on track after so long. It is 12.30, I started my day a bit late today. My sleep was not good last night. So many things start coming up in the later stages of our life. We don't know what we will be getting. Which part of our body is not going to cooperate with our day plans. Every morning comes up with surprises. The same is with every night. It is like Christmas every day. We don't know what we will be getting today. We have to take with patience and grace whatever is going to come up. This is life my dear. Nothing stays forever. Things go on changing every day, every moment. Nature and also the weather keeps on changing. Our mood keeps on changing too accordingly. The weather, the peop...

    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 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...

  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's a bright snowy morning. Snow is all around. Trees are loaded with white cottony flowers.  The driveway looks coated with white paint. Cars are covered under white sheet of snow. Every season is unique and has its own beauty. So is the winter. So peaceful. So quiet. It is good to be home for a while. Taking a break from your busy routine. Birds are gone to the South. My garden looks quiet too. No flowers. No pink Canadian roses. Not any of the red, yellow and white seasonal flowers. The blood red David Austin roses have also taken some time off. The grass is still lush green thanks to the rain last week. White snow scattered on the green looks so beautiful. Amazing. Nature is great. The scenery changes so quickly. We are lucky to have a taste of everything. Autumn was beautiful too with the change of colors. Leaves of Gold, Blood red, Copper and  Bronze were scattered all around. Now this white everywhere. It looks very peaceful. You can feel the calm deep do...

  One more beautiful day. One more beautiful morning. Lucky me. It is more than enough to celebrate.  We have to count one day at a time. One moment at a time. Don't have to wait for the whole bunch to count, to make our day. We can't predict what is coming up in the days onward. Don't have to waste time just waiting for that. We have to make use of every moment in hand. Today is not going to be back. What is gone is gone, will be lost. Like a history. We can not recall. Time flies so are the days of our life. We are losing one by one every day in our lives. We hardly think about that. Anyway, a winter storm is on the way. It can be any time at our door step. All sorts of warnings have been issued in our weather channel since yesterday afternoon. According to the weather advisory we have to be alert for the flurries, snow squall and so many of such things. Wind gusts are around sixty km. I was back from work after playing Darts at 12.30. I had a shower, made a milkshake for...

    Great weather, beautiful morning.Time to enjoy my day. I missed my office today. I rarely do that.  After our retirement we have to plan and do things on working to boost our mental and physical well-being. That's a must to maintain our mind and body to keep healthy and in good shape. I joined the senior club to get busy with things over there. I take it as my work. Going there is like going to the office for me. To make yourself happy and feel good, it is fine to twist things once a while. Nothing wrong with that. My eldest daughter is here with her husband from Edmonton for a couple of days. Family is a priority. I missed my office to spend time with their company. We have to divide our time in various sectors. Family, friends, work and time for our personal, mental and physical well-being. Hobbies and time to enjoy comes under managing personal mind and body health. Family is a priority still it depends. When we are feeling low, not in a good shape. Priority switch...

  It's a beautiful morning, bright and sunny. I see no flowers and not many birds.  Just a couple of birds some times. Squirrels are walking, busy collecting their food  to store for the coming days. I am enjoying my walk putting everything on. Nowadays we have to wear a couple of layers to dress up.  I am ready to be bundled up in just a couple of weeks, maybe days. You never know when. The weather changes here overnight. There is no rain and no snow for now. We have to celebrate our moments. Not to worry much about the days to come. We have to focus on the moments in hand. Don't have to spoil our present, thinking about what to come later on. We don't have to try to manage our future. Don't know what will be there to handle. Take one moment, one day at a time. It will help to manage our mood swings. It will be helpful to make full use of our moments. To get happiness, enjoy the existing scenario. That is the key. Simple recipe to live your life happily. There's so...

  It's a beautiful bright cold morning with 4 C at 10.15. My back garden is loaded with scattered yellow Maple leaves.  Thanks to the tall Maple leaf tree standing gracefully in the back of my garden. Not much activity in my garden. It looks a bit quiet. Just a couple of red, purple and white seasonal flowers are pushing themselves to give color to my garden.  No pink Canadian roses and not any blood red David Austin roses. One black Squirrel wandering on the lush green grass to find his breakfast or maybe looking for his brunch. I can't see any birds in my garden or up in the sky. I think they already left for South of the Border. The red wooden bench in my front garden is looking great. Washed clean and shining under the sun. Thanks to the rain for a couple of days. Grass is also green.  The trees around are still full of life. No skeleton trees for now. I can see lots of sparkling red colored leaves in between the greens. It's 11.30, I am all set to ...

  The weather is great. It's still summer. We are enjoying the outdoors, not  wearing our jackets.  Flowers are smiling in pots and planters.The Flower bed at the back of my garden is looking beautiful with pink Canadian roses. Other seasonal flowers golden yellow, violet and brick red are also in full bloom. Making the atmosphere colorful.  The Black Squirrel is busy with his work outs on the wooden fence of my back garden. I can hear a couple of birds are busy chit chatting on the top of the Maple tree at the right side of my garden. The air is loaded with fragrance. Full of aroma from the flowers and greens around. I am sitting on one of the red knitted steel garden chairs. Trying to have a feel of all that. My son got four of these chairs years ago from Home Depot. Time is running out. It is already 10.15, I have to get ready for my walk and also to get my morning tea / coffee from Tim Hortons. To be outdoors imparts something unique to brighten up ...

  Time flies so quickly. The New Year 2025 is no more New. It's nearly done.  Just a couple of months to go to make it history. We never give a thought that the time we have is not for ever. Moments keep on slipping from our hands for never to come back. Try to make use of your time in hand.  Present is everything. Don't have to waste that moment thinking about the days already done. Life is like a combo. Mixed with sweet and bitter moments. It is not a bed of roses. We have flowers of happiness with thorns all around. Thorns are the difficult moments we have to face in life. That is so normal, Life is like a mixed plate. We have to pick flowers of happiness from wherever we can. To give color to our moments in hand. Try to distract yourselves. Do not spoil the moments to come. We are here for a given time. Everyone is in a state of wait and see. No one knows about his time to leave. We all are waiting for the call from Almighty. Done is done. The future is ...