Randomly rambling...

My DD never takes 'no' for an answer. Neither is she ready to see that maybe, just maybe I have a point in saying that sometimes things become too much, or that a day has only 24 hours in it. Her beaver-ish solution to everything is - we can find a way around it; we can do everything, we just need to rearrange them...and she then proceeds to work out these crazily impossible rearrangements that strangely do work!!!

Randomly thinking...

For those of us who have children, we need to leave a tiny space open for them to crawl back into and into which we can wriggle, when we are at war with them....for all their bravado and ours, can we really live without our kids, and if we cannot be their sheet anchor, then who will? So while neither side is ready to back down, or back off, there is always that little space, that little retreat...

Rambling in the rain...

Yesterday I saw this huge, massive Gul Mohur tree lying on its side, uprooted by the strong winds that were blowing. Just a few weeks back, the same tree was gorgeously bedecked in green, orange and gold...Today it was lying wounded and dying...

My mind went back to the eucalyptus trees in Lovedale. Tall, slender, almost frail-looking, but no wind, or tempest or hurricane could uproot them...

Sadly, the Gul Mohur had just not sent its roots deep down into the soil - so there was nothing to hold it firmly when the storm came. The eucalyptus sends its roots deep, deep into the soil. No matter they grow on mountain sides, or in unfriendly places...Their roots go deep down. And they are ready for any hurricane...

Are we spreading our roots of living only superficially, or are they growing deep into depths and being of our souls, seeking to find their succor in the spirituality of living?

Randomly thinking...

about relationships - most often, to my mind, our various relationships are blurred. Whether it is the vegetable shop, or the friendly neighborhood shop, or the bakery, or the laundry, or the beauty parlor, or wherever, one forms connections, or relationships, with the people who run these. They know what you cook; what your shopping list looks like, or should look like, and often remind you that you need this or that; how you want your clothes done; your usual requests in the beauty parlor and who you would particularly like to groom you...but what about them? I wonder if we even know they exist and have lives of their own...

Consider those who work for us and with us - how clear are the boundaries of their lives to us?

It is the same with our other relationships -  friends, close family and extended family... do we have blinkers on?...or do we have selective vision?

One thing I've learnt just now is how clearly death throws life and relationships into relief...

'milling ramblings...

My DD (Darling Daughter) has one recipe for dealing with stress...

Stop all work

Take a deep breath

Either fix yourself a kofe (as she spells it), or get something to munch

Leisurely sip/munch 

Look at the work and see if it can be broken up into bits. If it can, then go bit by bit, and if it can't then take it point by point

If you feel the stress coming on again - STOP -

Lie down, listen to music or listen to the silence. Sleep if you can. 

Get up and start over...

Now mind you when there is a deadline screaming out from the computer, this seems to be a stress-levels-increasor.......but in fact, it actually works!!!!!!

My DD is, as usual, right!!!

The rains are here...

The first rains always create 2 powerful images in my mind's eye -

Crocuses - growing wild all over the garden, and especially around the roots of trees where they were planted.

and the gorgeous Dove orchid - there'd be hundreds of little doves growing out of the coconut shell holder clasped onto the mango tree in the yard.




 'Good Morning World!

Imagery

In the words Mom and Dad lie the little child you will always be for them...