Have got a bit of quiet computer time today and so thought I would wish all the mothers I know Happy Mother's Day.  As I am in the US now, there is no way I could forget that day anyway.  Any which way you look, and whatever maybe the medium of communication, there are ads for Mother's day.

I feel good and bad about all the media hype that I see.  In the sense of the celebration of motherhood and what goes into it, all of which may not get enough appreciation otherwise(?), I feel good.  But the commercialization seems so much and it seems to me, from some of the messages I see in the media, its as though love is measured only by the value of the gifts you give your mom!  I would think Moms are the last people who would weigh their children based on the material gifts they get from them.  Ah well, I guess, goods have to get sold, and reasons made for getting people to buy them. :-)

Happy Mother's Day.

We will be leaving in half an hour for the station to take us to Chennai and on to the US and I am feeling sad for my dog.  There will be someone coming in everyday to feed her and there are folks around who are fond of her.  Even so.........
Hope to keep up with my blog reading, though I'll be away from my comp.  In the meantime Happy Easter to you all.

We'll be leaving for the US in just 3 weeks time.  It was a sudden rescheduling and so I feel a little pressured, though of course, I'm looking forward to it too.

A good link

Those of you who read Huffington Post may have seen this article for caregivers of Alzheimer's patients. If not, do take a look, especially if you know of anyone who has Alzheimer's or senile dementia.

A way of looking at life?

"You are a big fruit tree, with your branches spreading wide, providing shade. Your fruits drop down and sustain many. I see and know that your growth is good and that, through you, other living beings are sustained in your shade, in your branches and from your fruit. That is your destiny.

I am but a little tiny wayside flower, glimpsed, maybe, by a wayside traveller on the way to your shade and that is my destiny. I provide neither cool shade nor fruits to gladden body and soul. If I gladden the heart of a passer-by with my smile, if I can provide a bit of nectar to the littlest butterfly or the tiniest bee, I am content.

Both you and I, grand and insignificant, huge and tiny, all are God’s creations and all are part of God’s plan"

I think of myself as the wayside flower.

My heart goes out to the Japanese people, who are going through horrific times, and to all those who have had to suffer the after -effects of natural disasters--so many places and so many countries in the last 2 years or so.
These natural disasters remind us, so powerfully, how little we are. We are made aware, once again, that Mother Earth is much more big and powerful than we give her credit for and all life is puny and helpless in front of her wrath. Humans are the only life which think that they can tamper with, tame, use, take advantage of all that nature gives us. So Mother Earth reminds us of our frailty now and then.

Was better and then had a hectic life for a week and am back on antibiotics now!  But the hectic activity was all enjoyable.  There was a trip to Chennai, where youngest grandkid is too at present (visiting) and so had a great weekend with 3 grandkids.  The other absolutely hectic activity that I was involved in was.............*drum roll*.....dancing!!! And that too with a lot of young women my daughter's age!   There were 4 days of dancing (with days in between).  I enjoyed myself thoroughly I must say.