Thought Of The Day

    Summer has long days and short nights. Days to get out. To hit the roads, trails and waters. Time to enjoy the outdoors. September will be done today.  October starts tomorrow. We are still enjoying our summer time. Not have to wear any jackets or sweaters. Time to bundle up is yet to come. We have a couple of more days to stay outside. To have a feel of nature around. Flowers are still blooming. Smiling in pots, planters and in flower beds.  The grass is lush green in our front and back gardens. Everyone is busy, planning picnics and outdoor parties. Lakeside is busy. The sun is shining in full bloom. Water is sparkling under the sun, like gold, silver and platinum.  Sailboats and canoes are scattered all over the water surface. This all gives a festive touch to the atmosphere. Festivity imparts positivity. It helps to elevate our mood. Helps to distract us from our day to day issues. We take some time off to be a part of all this.  Putting ...

  Every day as soon as we get out of bed we start thinking about how to spend our twenty four hours. Sometimes we already have plans for the day. Invitations to attend get together. Visit with friends and some of our family members. Sometimes we have to make courtesy calls.  Someone not in good shape needs company. We go there to support. Sort of our moral obligations. Still so much time in hand. We have to figure out how to make use of that.  We have to empty our account the same day. Drain out all the time. We will be having another lot of the same amount of time next morning. At the early stages of our life we were busy with our school days. After that, we were busy with work. We have no pressure to chalk out our day plans. It was all tailor made.  We are out of bed and in no time have to get ready to go to school or work. When we come back we are already tired.  Now it's time to relax. Time to watch programs of our interest. Listen to music or s...

It's a hazy morning. The sun is not yet out of his grey blanket.  Maybe he was up till late night enjoying his time.  It has been raining since last night. It is still drizzling. not heavy though.   I am sitting with my computer in my room. Window blinds are drawn up to connect with the world outside. I am enjoying the scenery. The view of my front garden.   The grass is all lush green with no brown patches in between. Thanks to the rain. I don't have to water my plants either. I am on break. I have time off to do some of my own things.   The red wooden bench by the left side of the Magnolia tree, is shining, all washed and clean. The trees around look happy.   The red and golden yellow Dahlia flowers in the brick red platters in front of my door by the driveway look happy too. Giving me a smile. A smile is contagious just like grief and sorrow. A smile is a symbol of happiness. It works like an invitation for the people around to share the mom...

    It's 10.45 in the morning. I am outside, not home. I can see orange, yellows and blood red in between the greens in the trees around me.  So many yellow leaves scattered on the walkway. So much Gold also started showering from the Maple tree in my back garden. I will be rich any time soon. I smell a change in the atmosphere. Change in colors. Change in the scenery. The atmosphere is scented with a peculiar aroma. Air is loaded with a unique mixed fragrance. I feel a change in life too. Everyone is at a slow pace. Feeling calm everywhere around. Looks like all creatures have taken a break. I believe that is time to wait. To be prepared for the days ahead. It is time to pause. Pause to behold the things around. For which we never gave a thought. I believe, change is the beauty of life. It makes us change our lifestyle. To chalk out something different from our usual routines. I am enjoying my walk. I have to walk a bit carefully. I don't want to crush any ...

  Sometimes our body is not listening, giving us a tough time. I think at that time we have to listen to her / him to resolve matters. To save time and also to avoid complications. Listening works not only for bodies. It works for everyone. We don't have to push. No use of putting extra pressure.  Just back off. We have to take a back seat sometimes. Put your ego aside for a while. Show some patience. Patience is a virtue. It works to simplify matters all the time. Anyway, I did the same this morning. I took a back seat and gave all the time my body wanted to have. To revive herself. I think if we are not making a big deal of things. There won't be any issues. Life will be much easier to handle our day to day matters. We will be much happier. No big issues for our day calendars. Have some patience. Take breaks to pause. To smell the flowers. To behold the scenery. To absorb the aroma of nature.  We have so much to look around. Don't have time to waste on petty matte...

  It's Friday, I was back from work around 12.20. Darts are from 10 in the morning to 12 noon. My son and my daughter in law left this morning for Washington.  They will be back on Monday. Kids are busy with their computers, working online. I am sitting on an empty nest. The house looks a bit quieter. I made banana blackberries shake with nuts to treat myself. We have to treat ourselves to make our body go with our plans.  I made some calls after. My daughters called me from Kent, Grimsby and Camberley, England. They usually make a joint call. It helps to save time. Keep in mind that it works only when the people to call are on the same wavelength. Same mind set. One to one calls will be better otherwise. To avoid misunderstandings and complications. Everyone has his / her own personality. We have to make calls to them accordingly. We call to maintain our relationships not to deteriorate our existing ones. I am done at home so not much to do for now. It is 3...

  It's mid September and the weather is good. Perfect to enjoy walking outdoors. It can change anytime soon.  We Canadians know that so making full use of the time in hand. We don't have to grab a jacket while stepping out of our house. It looks so comfortable. We don't have to decide on our shoes. Any shoes will be fine. We can go with our candles. We rarely have a chance to use these except in our short summer days.  Same with our shirts. Not hiding under our coats. We can show off for a while to feel good. It's Tuesday 10.15 in the morning. I am off today so I don't have to go to work to play my Darts. Today is the garbage collection day in our neighborhood. Bins of all colors, blue, green and grey are lined up by the driveways outside. I don't see much activity outside. Not many cars, just a few waiting for orders to go ahead. It's a working day so most of the people must already be gone to work and school. Just a couple around my age must b...

    It's a beautiful morning, bright and sunny. Pink Canadian roses are giving me a smile to make my day. A positive gesture from anyone imparts happiness all around.  My friend the White Butterfly is whispering to the blood red David Austin roses. I think they two are close friends. She often comes to talk to them. I see a couple of birds walking by the left side of my deck. I think that they came to enjoy the outdoors. To enjoy the scenic atmosphere.They are having chit chats. I can hear them. It looks like they are friends. I usually start my blog by writing, “ It's a beautiful morning ”. To print positive words transmit positive messages to our brain.  The brain works like a power house. It works like a commander. Orders our mind and body to go into any direction.To take any track. There are so many things to look around. We have to try to infer positivity. It will help to impart positive messages to our brain. That will help our mind and body to go...

  Beautiful day, great morning. It's 20 C perfect weather. Slightly windy. I think now summer days are about to be over.   The apartments in " Twin Towers". I mean in the two tall trees in the front garden of my next door neighbor. are looking quiet. I don't see any activity over there. I think all the birds moved out.   They must now be crossing the border for South of the Border. I hope they have their complete documents to clear the security. Things are not the same as were a couple of years ago. So much has changed.   They will come back in early spring or be gone till summer next year. The trees are looking a bit quiet. Starting to change the colors. Losing the green of their leaves. Grass in gardens started to have some brown patches in between.   Some of the leaves have already changed to yellow. lost their strength. We see so many of them scattered around on the pathways. Nature started to change. Now there will be a totally different scenar...

    It's Thursday morning. I started my day a bit late. Some nights are tough to handle. Every night brings a different story, a different scenario to deal with.  Same goes with mornings at our age. We don't know which part of our body is not in a good shape to go with our plans. We were not having any problem planning our day schedule at the age we used to go to work. We had no option except to get up in the morning and get ready for work.  Our body was used to that. We had no time to listen to our body parts whining. Things start happening as we age. We are done with our work. No designated plans for our twenty four hours. We ourselves have to organize our days. We are now the ultimate authority to make our day plans. It is a big responsibility. We can make it or can ruin things by taking the wrong track. The wrong track will be doing nothing just sitting idle. We will be couch potatoes. That will take our mental health downwards. Our physical strength ...

      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...

  It's Sunday today. I am sitting beside my kitchen area. It is early in the morning, a bit quiet at my place.  My son is an early riser, not home. He goes for morning walks, loves biking too. Takes his bike to the lake and walks around. My grandsons are sleeping.They must be enjoying late night. Busy playing video games with friends.  It's a different world now friends don't have to be in person to enjoy together. Not like that in our time. I am busy enjoying my breakfast. I start my day drinking a cup of honey water. One teaspoon of honey in hot water. I take oatmeal porridge in a bowl of warm milk after that. No tea or coffee with my breakfast. I enjoy my tea while playing Darts with my senior club friends in the library. I go there three days a week.  On the days I am off and not going to play Darts. I walk to Tim Hortons to enjoy my morning tea  / coffee over there. We have to plan to do things to make our day to chalk out our own day schedules. I ...

    Today is September the 6th. Summer is nearly done.This is Canada how long we expect Summer days over here my dear. Between Summer and winter comes autumn. Autumn is the season of colors. I like to look forward to that period of the year. We get a chance to see all sorts of colors.  Colors start transforming from dark green to different shades of green mixing some yellow, some orange, red, coffee and bronze in it. Amazing to watch and to cherish your moments. Trees start showering cones and beautiful leaves of all colors. You see deep yellow color leaves scattered like gold all around in your backyard and walkways. You feel starting rich in just a couple of days. We see that the Gold leaves start turning into blood red leaves. It turns into bronze and copper after some days. So many beautiful pieces of art and sculpture we see everywhere every day. It looks like an amazing display of art. We hardly try to give time to pause to have a feel of all that. This ...

    Today is the 2nd of September. It was a long weekend. Monday was Labor day so everything was closed.  Eateries were open. I walked to Tim Hortons to enjoy my time. We have to keep our plans ready to switch, so as not to ruin our days. For me today is also off. No Darts on Tuesdays. I usually skip my morning tea at home after my breakfast. I walk to Tim Hortons to get my tea  / coffee over there.  We have to chalk out our routine to fill up our day schedule. Especially at our age it matters a lot. We have to make our own schedule. We are done with our work and other family matters. Now it is our time to enjoy doing things we want to do. We have twenty four hours every day for our own selves.  Time flies. We don't have to wait for tomorrow. We don't know things might happen and we will not be able to do things we can do today. For everyone things change. Circumstances are not the same. We have to value what we have today. Make use of time in ...

    It is the 29th of August. 3.30 in the evening. I am sitting in my room. My computer is switched on, I am watching my favorite show.  Things are fine still we have to change the scenery. Sitting at the same place doing the same is not good. We start feeling stagnant. It is important to change our position to find different things. It helps to boost our will power. To elevate our mood. Life is the same for everyone with ups and downs. It is like a combo mixed with sweet and bitter moments. We are the commander. We have all the power. Life is not a bed of roses. It happens only in stories. Not in real life.  We can make our life miserable or top it up with colors. Picking moments of happiness from around. Try to spread happiness, put smiles on the faces wherever you can. Life will all be good. It's 4.30 pm, and my grandson, the middle one, is going to Gym. I am getting ready. He will drop me at the Pickering Town Center. It is across the Gym. I am at th...

    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...

    Time flies, things change, so does the weather. I believe that change is the beauty of life. It's 7.15 in the morning, 17 C in Toronto. Nowadays I am an early riser.  I am out of bed at 5.45, maybe my jet lag period is not yet done. I came back from London two days ago. Time in Toronto is five hours behind the time in England. We humans are not robots. It takes time for our body to make adjustments. We don't have to push ourselves. Just go with the flow.  Not the end of the world. Keep in mind that we have twenty four hours in our hands. We have to keep our plans ready to fill in all the columns in our day schedule. At our age we are done with our work and with raising our kids. We are free to enjoy our own time. Not answerable to anyone except to God Almighty.  To be a couch potato is not good. It spoils our physical as well as our mental well-being. Doing nothing will make it easy to think of negatives.  Try to find hobbies. Keep in mind...

    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...

    My trip to England is done one more day to be here. It's 6.30 in the evening.  I am sitting in my daughter's back garden. Pigeons are on the tree top in front busy talking. I think they are trying to say goodbye to me in their own language. Pink and red roses adding up the color. The atmosphere is loaded with all sorts of aroma. I can feel the fragrance around.  The white cat with black spots is sitting quietly on the side wall of the garden. Such a beautiful scenic atmosphere to behold. Moments to cherish. Every city is unique with its own beauty. I see pigeons walking around everywhere in London. I will miss them in Toronto. Cafes also look quite different here. Not like in my city Toronto. We have to feel lucky to be around in various places. To be with different cultures is a novel experience. We humans are the same, scattered around the world. It doesn't take long to get along. I am leaving England with mixed emotions. Toronto is my home. Three o...

  It's the 20th of August 2025. I am now at one of my daughter’s places in Rochester. I was in Camberley a day before to spend a couple of days with my youngest daughter and her family. Camberley is about an hour and a half drive from Rochester. I will be going back to Canada on Saturday the 23rd August. Time is running out. I am busy gathering flowers of happiness from wherever I can to make my days. Today I enjoyed my time in Canterbury. It's a 40 minute drive from Rochester. Canterbury is a beautiful place famous for one of the oldest Cathedral. I liked the city's old style architecture of the houses, and cafes. I am not so fond of high rise buildings in big cities. It's 3.30 in the afternoon. The weather is great, not too hot. I am enjoying my walk in the High Street in Rochester. So many charity shops and cafes are here. All colors of flowers by the church are making the atmosphere scenic.The church is next to the historic castle, worth visiting. My ...