New Year Resolutions, Talks, Trees And Runs!

Dear Scorpio,

I am so sorry about your dog. I sincerely hope you find it or that the finder returns it to you. I know how it feels. Toby has run away a couple of times and thankfully every time we knew he had escaped right away and have been fortunate enough to find him. I do hope you find your pup scorpio.

Me too! Have been off for quite sometime now and had this urge to write after a long time. It is so nice to hear from you and it is heartening to know that there is that connection. It makes me smile. Thank you!

 

Dear cinderella,

so nice to hear from you after such a long time. You do not know how much it helps to know that this made a small difference to you. Thank you. I often get lost in so many issues and forget the little things that delight me - they are so momentary no? To grab them and hold them if hard - this writing helps me calm down as well. A Happy New Year to you. Have a wonderful year ahead!

 

Dear Satchi,

You know about my resolutions as well. I better not resolve either to write or not to write! They are called resolutions and not promises. Somehow resolutions work better in groups with goals - take running for example. I resolve to run and I know cannot do it alone. So sign up with a group and then I am on a path. The other little resolutions become hard because it is my secret and hence my struggle

Thanks to your prompting, I did muster up courage to post after a long time and it feels good to have some good friends come and comment. Glad to hear from you!

 

Dear Syamala,

Lack of time! Sounds lame but trust me if I had a moment I would be preparing for class. But then New years and falls and all this good stuff gives a breather and then I realized oopsie, I do have a life out side of what I do every day and hence this post and thanks to good friends like you, I have a big grin on my face now. The fact that anything I write gets read makes me happy. Thank you for being supportive.

Well, with resolutions I get it - I work on my library habit every single time I go into library. This time I have kids on board and they are after me every 15 days or so reminding me of what to do. It is fun you know. I have a confession as much as I claim I know Telugu, I do not know enough to understand great writers like this guy for sirivennela. Knowing my fondness for Shiva, a friend translated it for me and I was hooked! I often go back to the meaning while listening to the song and this past New years our get together with friends was going back on old songs from our school and college days and we ended up covering a lot of songs in Kannada, Telugu and Tamil on Youtube much to the chagrin of our kids! It was so much fun!

Happy New Year to you too!

 

Dear Shanvy,

You will be laughing too if I said that I had a lot of family visiting for holidays and they were all watching me walk the dog from the warmth of the house, watched me fall and get dragged and when I walked in was welcomed with "oh the sledding. Was it fun" and the kids took delight showing the long mark to their dad that evening. That should tell you - except for running a fever for a day with aches and pains, I was fine Phew!

Thank you for your lovely words. You always make me smile and as for nature, what I can tell you my friend? My DH has caught me on camera - lost and crying in joy looking at something. Those are the times I want to go and hide but I swear when I feel that warmth under a particular tree, makes me really wonder. So much positive energy in this world I tell you. I love it!

Thank you for your sweet feedback!

 

Dear @Rihana,

My apologies. Let me start from the beginning! Did not understand one bit of your towel post, did not realize you had appended to that post! Hence the delayed response to you.

I am truly touched that my post excited you. I have to confess, I have missed writing here and there is a sense of relief knowing that all the craziness I carry around while it actually makes me look crazy outside, makes me feel understood here. A relief!

I want to transition to kindle but I love the smell of books, especially from the library - just imaging how many hands that book has gone through and might have made a difference and don't even get me started on books from half price books. Then my DS, he loves owning books...so kindle has a long way to give before it is understood.

and snow boots! Must have! I tell you what after I posted this, while taking toby on a walk realized there was this big raccoon sitting on the street and I could sense Toby's excitement. So the intelligent being that I am now, I walked back, just that raccoon was stubborn and was still there on our return but I did one more walk and guess who won? Me!! It was so much fun but all that story led to me wondering about the lovely day and taking myself out to do a 6 miler after 6 long moths!

End of the day, I was happy that my craziness is still alive though I am sore like crazy today. But I will survive.

Thank you for your excitement!

 

Dear Kamala,

I see you still remember! Add to that, my sink - it is as full as ever! My akshayapatre I tell you. So nice to see you here after a long time. Thank you also for making me feel good with your response. I know I wanted to put down but I know my meandering will be understood here! And I was not wrong

Feels good to be back!