wandering mind

Browsing around my pictures folder on my computer found these: January: February:somewhere in DC March: Meghana's birthday April: Blossoms on my peach tree May: Dia with her cheerleading trophy June: Meghana graduating 5th grade July: Neeraj getting attacked with his birthday cake August: Ocean City September: Found surprise flowers in a corner of my garden where I didn't plant anything. October: Dad's birthday November: I voted December: Meghana on violin and Diya on viola : Holiday Rock Orchestra Goodbye 2008. Welcome 2009.

I am a cheerful-happy-glass-half-full person - or so I tell myself. "It is not what happens to you, it is your reaction to what happened which matters" I know all that - as a matter of fact I often preach that. Let me recount what happened today. I left work around 2:30 - I had one last gift to buy. I went to a shopping plaza where just getting into the parking lot took forever. I started to get irritated. Why am I doing this? Why did we start celebrating Christmas? I am a Hindu for crying out loud - I don't need to be part of this madness that Christmas has become. If I was going to adopt Christmas, why couldn't I adopt the non-commercial aspect of it? Well, I make it into the store after finding the last ever parking spot way at the end. I roam around and it is a madhouse in there as well. Apparently there are many others who have a few last thing left to do. After wandering around for a while, I finally find a perfect thing. I am happy. The line at the cash registe...

Sometimes a story takes you by the hand, makes you sit down with it and surrounds you with its warmth and wonder. It feels like a warm quilt that you don't want to get out of on a cold winter morning. That is how I feel reading A tree grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith. Has anyone else read this book? I am only at the beginning of it, but I love it already.

I saw your fury turn red from yellow You stared me down unflinching from your high perch I stopped dead in my tracks I lowered my eyes and waited uneasy in this forced stillness waited for an eternity for the red anger to subside and then the light turned green I sped away on my merry way :)