Tag: points to ponder

  • coming togather

    Coming together. When there is a disaster or emergency like people come together, lend a helping hand. But is that the only time we need to get tighter? Humans seem to come together only on face of a tragedy, it’s then the lending hand comes. This experience is often a life changing one for those…

  • If I Had Grown Up With/Without Siblings

    I have grown up not with just siblings but with cousins. Today when I look back I see the times we were together the fun we had. I also appreciate the secure safety net we have. It has definitely kept us together despite my biological sibling going the Uncle Sam’s way I have my two…

  • life boat

    Row row row a boat, Gently down the stream Merrily, merrily, merrily Life is but a dream. We have hummed this ditty long enough. How profound. Life is a dream, and illusion, something like a play where we all act out our roles. Yet we take our achievements, or failures, so seriously. How nice it…

  • Quay Sera Sera

    what shall be shall be, the future is not ours to see. Astrologer In India we do have a system of consulting an astrologer. when a baby is born the first thing is done is the horoscope is cast, the child's name decided on that basis. A bad patch in your life talk to the…

  • Books Versus Their Movie Versions

    Jeeves and Wooster for DS Are books better options than movies? To me yes, for the book tells a tale, but the visuals are mine. I can add minor additions of mine like the Jeeves finishing his chore for the day and curling up with an Agatha Christie novel or a mass murder winding up…

  • Dotage

    retire is a verb that says, to go away to seclusion, does one really want to retire unless to bed? Retired in France When is the perfect age to retire and how I know that I am ready.  Well Plinky makes it very clear which retirement she is talking about. I hope it is…