Thought Of The Day

    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...

    It's the 15th of August. Tomorrow I am leaving Grimsby and will be on the road to Camberley to my youngest daughter's place.  Camberley is around four hours drive from Grimsby. My daughter is coming to Leicester to pick me up. It will be halfway for her. My daughter, the middle one, will be driving me from Grimsby to Leicester. Halfway for both of them. Communication always works to sort things out. To communicate, understanding and good relationships matters a lot. Things might get complicated otherwise. To convey your message in a true sense, we have to be on the same wavelength. It also has to be very clear for the person we have to communicate our message that it's a fair deal. We are not taking any advantage.  Message has to be proposed not imposed. We also have to be open minded to listen to the other person’s proposed idea. We Humans are social animals. We need relationships. Nothing works one sided. There is always give and take. Same works t...

 It's a beautiful morning in Camberley, England. Not so hot, bright sunny breezy day. It is 11.30, I am sitting in my youngest daughter’s back garden. So much green is around. She loves to track her garden.  Blood red Lilies, rose pink, white pinkish Purple and bell shaped white flowers, all are happy, smiling. Grass is lush green. There was rain for a while yesterday afternoon. I came here just about a week ago from Toronto. Looks like I live here, I am all set. I was a bit nervous while starting my journey. I think it's not my fault. At our age, so many things start coming up. Traveling adds up pressure. Anyway I am all settled. There is no nearby coffee house or Plaza, like Tim Hortons and Metro, in Pickering. My daughter is working, goes at 7.30 in the morning, comes back at 5.30. She is in Private school, with longer hours. I have to manage my day on my own. My grand kids are also working. One the youngest one is here on his uni vacations. He keeps track of...

    I was happy a couple of days ago, the weather was great. People were busy making plans for summer days ahead.  Not anymore. We are back in sweaters and our long coats. I think we have to wait for a bit to hang coats and jackets back in our coat closet. It's 10.30, 6 C, a cold windy morning with gusts around 50 km. I am done with my breakfast, sitting with my computer to browse Facebook messages. I think we are lucky to have these gadgets. I mean computers and cell phones. We don't have any problem passing our time. We are not dependent on people to be with us all the time. We don't need company. To be with people is good. We are social animals after all. All depends on who the people are. They don't have to be too inquisitive or too talkative. Not too quiet. It depends on the state of our mind. Sometimes we just need a good listener. Sometimes we need to be with someone to share our coffee / tea and also a little bit of chit chat. It depends on our mood...

    White Butterfly, my friend is here after a long time. I am walking by the Whites Road. She is beside me.  She is fast, I am trying to cope with her steps. She is young and full of beauty. I am old at the later stages of my life cycle. Lost my beauty, lost my touch. It happens to everyone, not only in my case. This is life, comes time for all the creatures big and small.  I am now passing by the small ravine. I see here some dead trees lying down like pieces of wood in the midst of so many greens. This is life my dear. Time comes for everyone to all creatures. We have to accept it with grace. Have to enjoy our time with full zeal and fervor.  We have to celebrate every bit of our time. The time we are allotted to be here with the permission of God Almighty. White Butterfly is taking breaks to be aligned with my steps. She is so courteous. It is nice of her. In between she keeps on enjoying her time. Talking to flowers on the way.  Flowers loo...

    Bright sunny morning with 16 C. We don't need any jackets, not even light ones. Our winter was a bit longer this time. Yesterday I had to wear a sweater underneath my jacket. Anyway, it is done. Winter days are now history for a while. We are all set to enjoy our spring. Getting plants and pots from green houses, from nurseries to give color to our gardens. My Magnolia tree is full of beige flowers with a pinkish hue.  Lush green grass and the trees around started blooming with new leaves. This all looks like the atmosphere is full of life. Loaded with all sorts of aroma and fragrances. It's 11.30, I  am getting ready for my walk. Not much to wear. I don’t have to bundle up. Just a light shirt and pants, not my warm one and a light scarf. I have to get my tablet to write my Blog, while enjoying my coffee at Tim Hortons. I also don't have to forget my cell and headphones. My daughters can call me. They know my time table, and used to call me at this ...

    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 15th 2025 It's a cloudy windy day. Rain is about to start any time soon. It is early morning, I am just done with my breakfast.  Have to get ready for my walk before the rain starts. It's a windy day with gusts of 64 km. I have to be careful to pick what to wear, how to dress up. I am all set with my warm pants, long winter coat with sweater underneath. My woolen cap stole and gloves. We have to be aware of the weather before taking any step to get out. Our purpose is to enjoy our time. Not properly dressed, we can't enjoy ourselves. We have to foresee things before it is too late to be mended. Never forget to check the weather before leaving home for any outing. Walks, going to someone's place, gatherings. Take measures before you leave. Overdressing as well as whenever we are under dressed, won’t be a good option. It will ruin your day. We won't enjoy our time out. Anyway, I am all set for my walk.  No worries rain or shine doesn't matt...

    Today is the 5th of April. Time flies so quickly. April just started and nearly one week has gone by now. New year is also not new anymore. Quarter of the New year is gone. Shower started in the morning. It is not heavy rain, just drizzling. I love to walk in the drizzle. You feel cozy, with a very unique feeling. Looks like It is washing all your stray thoughts away.  Stops you from thinking anything else.  Your mind is just focused on the beauty around. Wonderful aroma of the earth. Rain drops hanging on the trees like pearls. Atmosphere starts looking great, loaded with all sorts of fragrances. You start to feel that you are also part of nature, part of the universe. Your focus gets diverted on the scattered beauty. It's 11.30, I am getting ready for my walk to Tim Hortons.  I will enjoy my walk in the drizzle and also the coffee after over there. It will be a treat for my body. She is a great listener. Always cooperates with my plans to make...

     Yesterday the weather was cold and windy with gusts 54 km. Walk was a bit challenging for me. I made it anyway. Today it is much calmer and not so windy, just38 km. Sunny with 2 C, first time not below zero after a long time. It's Tuesday everyone left for work. Today is garbage pick up day in our neighborhood. Grey, green and blue all sorts are lined up by the side of driveways. It is a working day so not many cars are here. Just a couple of cars are beside the front doors, waiting for order to proceed. I am done with my breakfast and with making some calls. My younger brother is not well, going through his difficult times. With age so many things start coming up. Our body becomes weak, same with our nerves and other powers. It becomes hard to tackle the circumstances. This is the cycle of life. We have to face it with patience. Patience is a virtue, helps to handle things every time. We have to distract ourselves. The more we will be focused we get depressed. Thing...

   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...

  It is the month of March and the weather is a bit tricky. Charles Dickens was right to mention in one of his beautiful writings.  “ One of those days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold; when it is summer in the light and winter in the shade “. Amazing description so close to reality. Weather is getting better day by day. Snow is melting away. Sun looks much brighter in full bloom. Smiling from up and above. Summer looks just around the corner. Everyone is waiting eagerly making plans for partying outside. In Canada every season is intense and comes in full bloom. We Canadians have a feel of all and learned to enjoy every season. Winter comes with twenty to twenty five C below zero Piles of snow dumping around. Spring comes bringing everything back to life. Flower beds with all kinds of beautiful flowers. Skeleton trees now loaded with leaves around. Grass in gardens, is lush green. We see so much green all around. Autumn comes, bringing a totally dif...

    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...

   January 14th 2025 Time flies so fast, it's around two weeks already after everyone was celebrating the new year. Anyway life goes on no matter what. Ups and downs, good and bad, sweet and sour, all moments keep on coming on the way. Life goes on. Seasons go on changing, we keep on flipping our calendar to keep ourselves updated. Nothing stops. Life goes on. We keep on losing our loved ones, getting busy making new relationships. Life goes on. This is the beauty of life. We keep on crossing stages of our lives sometimes with victory, sometimes with hard, bitter experiences. We keep on forgetting all that as nothing stops. Nothing stays forever. We are busy throughout our lives, until the last leg of our life. Last leg of life is a bit tricky. We start losing our strength, facing some challenges. Our nerves are not as strong as it was previously. Our body is old. Our kids, all settled, are busy with their families. Our friends are old like us. Difficult for them...

    It is a bright sunny cold morning. I am having breakfast and enjoying the view of my back garden. It's not looking like a garden anymore. My deck is covered with white sheet of snow. Grass is also under the white blanket.  Flower bed with no flowers, just with a couple of shrubs. The Canadian rose plant has no leaves. Beautiful pink roses are a matter of history. They were gone weeks ago. The glass top of my steel garden table is loaded with a thick slab of ice. The red garden chair, my son got from the Canadian Tire store, is nearly half under the heap of snow. So much has changed in just a couple of weeks. Weather was very cold and windy for a couple of days, 22C below zero, gusts around 50 km. Today is much better, still cold and slushy. Slushy is dangerous to walk, especially at our age. I won't take any chances to slip. My eldest grandson is going for his coffee. I talked to him to drop me at Tim Hortons. It's like a second home for me. The days whe...

     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 ...

    Beautiful cold morning. It's a total change of scenery. Last week there was Gold scattered around. Golden leaves kept on showering from plants.  Now silver from up and above all around. Nature is great. It is like a photo album. Keep on turning pages. Every season comes with its own beauty. So much to enjoy and cherish. I am going to Tim Hortons. It's like my second home. I have to bundle up with layers with a woolen cap, stole and my heavy coat, which is hanging at the back in my coat closet. It's time to wear that one. Snow  storm is coming after 2 pm. I have lots of time for my walk and to be back by that time. Snow is still around. It is Canada my dear. My front and back gardens are Looking beautiful with Snow scattered on lush green grass, looking like cottony flowers on grass. Walkway is clear. No Snow here. Thanks to the City. Most of the trees are now transformed into skeletons. Some still green, some with leaves changed from green to copper...

  November 30th 2024 It's Saturday, Black Friday sale is still on. I am at Pickering Town Center. I don't have any shipping list, nothing to buy in my mind. At our age, we already have so much stuff. Our suitcase Is filled and our cupboards are loaded with things. We rarely have any occasions to wear and use all that. Our kids and loved ones also go on showering gifts. They know that our days are now numbered. We can leave any time soon. It is nice of them to buy gifts for us. They have to think twice before wasting money on expensive gifts for their parents. It is my humble advice. I know that our days are numbered, still we don't know the numbers. No one knows that. Everyone is waiting for His call. It's all in His hands. We can get calls at any age. It doesn't matter that people are at whatever stage of their cycle of life. It all depends on His decisions. He knows what will be the best for His creatures. We don't. We just waiting at the last l...

    November 26th 2024 Weather is great, and the day is bright. It's the end of November, still not as cold as we were expecting here in Toronto. It is 6 C, perfect to get out, to get some breeze.  Air must be fresh, crisp and scented with the aroma around. Some plants are transformed into skeletons. I can see many of them in between the greens. Wild flowers are giving color to the atmosphere. It is scenic to behold. My back garden is portraying a totally different scenario. The Canadian rose plant is turned into a skeleton. It was full of pink Roses all around, just a couple of weeks ago.  Same story with the Wine rose plant. So many other plants are also not in a good shape. They all will be back to life with full bloom in March April. That happens every time. Same story every year. Grass is still green, covered under Gold leaves, which keep on showering from the tall Maple Leaf tree. I can see green grass in between.  Red wooden bench, in my fro...

    November 19th 2024 Beautiful morning, no rain, no snow. It is cold 5 C, what else do we expect these days? December is getting closer. We are ready for snow anytime soon. We are all set, and learned our lessons on how to cope with all that. No worries. We humans are amazing creatures. We adjust to any circumstances, able to handle and to make our time. We Canadians have a list of winter sports. Ice hockey, skating, fishing, snowboarding and so many other things make our days. We have cleats to walk on our frozen waters. We just bundle up to hit the roads. Nothing stops our day to day activities. Sun also comes out most of the time to brighten our days. I think he also learned his lessons to handle 25 C below zero temperatures. It is the beauty of  Canada. Sun goes back early to take rest under his hazy blanket. He must be cold, wants to warm up. We have to switch lights on, sometimes even at 4 pm. We know that the sun has to leave early. He needs a break ...