Wednesday, July 01, 2026

The summer that wasn't....

 It's been a weird summer. This time of the year brings a sense of fun, slow pace, lazy days, fun weekends and travel. Kids are off school, there's a couple of long weekends thrown in every few weeks and in general life is off structure for the most part. But this year has been off pulse. I am present yet not here...things on mind are making the happenings unnoticeable. I don't like this. Gotta change....

It also made me think - at times when you have a rough year you intentionally make an effort to create some fun memories to balance things. When you have a super fun year you may just enjoy it all along..but then there are years like the one I am having now where routine takes over and something totally consumes you and you just can't enjoy anything else. I know it's passing...but it's worth reflecting on this regardless...after all half a year has gone by...precisely as I'm typing this late into the night ... 

Here's looking for 'normalcy' soon !

Sunday, March 29, 2026

Wounds and lessons....

I got hurt in the same spot twice 

I put a band aid and patched it up right.

I kept checking to see if it had healed

"let it be, it heals better that way" I was told.

A few months passed, felt like it was healing,

it looked like the medicine was finally working.

The rawness was gone, but the scar remained;

but as I poked on it, the wound opened again.

What I learnt as a kid I forgot as an adult,

don't poke on a wound, it leads to nothing good.

Best thing to do is to let it heal,

It takes time but eventually it will.