The blue sky

Today is my best friend Sonali's daughter's Zara's birthday. Zara is also my son's best friend and from morning I am thinking about her and the party which they will have in the evening. Last year we were all together, laughing and talking and eating. They will definitely miss us today but I am missing them and all my folks in Bangalore even more. She sent me the little one's pics in her new birthday dress. My son sent his wishes on a Voice message to his dear friend. She told me about the menu which partly she is going to prepare and partly going to order. She is going to cut a Peppa Pig birthday cake today. All my besties, Madhuri, Snehal, Rashmi and others are going to be there, but not me...

What happens when you lock the main house door and go to pick up your son and come back 1 hr later and stand in front of the door trying to open the door which the same key with which you had locked it and the door doesn't open with the same key anymore? You feel like a fool and check the keys again and again and try to open the door several times. You start doubting your capabilities and also think that maybe you are standing before a wrong door perhaps.

The song Hawa Hawai from the ever green movie 'Mr. India' was immortalized by two ladies. The singer offscreen, who has a vast work in her name and is blessed with wonderful voice, Ms. Kavita Krishnamurthy and on screen by Sridevi, who with her funny dance moves and expressions made that song etched in our memories for a lifetime. She breathed her last in Dubai by accidental drowning and the whole nation wept for her and felt sad for her sudden departure. She had so much potential.

The weather is getting better.. The temperatures are in single and sometimes double digits (in plus)... The Sun God makes it a point to give his Darshan for longer hours now... So what better time than now to get back to my favorite activity of walking!

I came to Germany in November, during the fall and almost when the season was getting grey and cold. In a new place, in a new city, in a new neighborhood, I was not sure how I was going to survive. But thankfully things fell in place and my son got admission in the Kindergarten immediately. I was relieved because he would be busy and not get bored at home. He would start school only in September 2018. In his Kindergarten, I happened to come across this monthly newspaper called 'Karlsruher Kind' (The Karlsruhe child) which has different events and activities and places, flea markets for kids and parents listed out for that particular month in Karlsruhe and the surrounding areas. This was where I first saw the advertisement of Private Music School Wasmer (Music School Wasmer) . And the music lover in me immediately leapt in joy!

Today is International Women's Day. My Facebook wall and WhatsApp is flooded with messages and I am quite amused by the revenue generated by these different Apps on a "special day" like today. Suddenly the whole world wakes up and sends and forwards messages though they might not really mean them or live a life like specified in them. They are after all "good to have" things and virtues. Who really thinks about them in day to day life?

I came across this wonderful poem on my favorite Facebook corner, The Senior Reading Raccoons. Someone had shared it on the group and I was in awe and dumbstruck. What choice of words! What feelings! What self-affirmation!