I had a funny/queer habit of noting down the time sun rose in the morning. We have a building in front of us and having ground +2 floors, helped me peek from the kitchen to note the time the sun came up to 2nd, then first and then ground floor. Just this monday I noticed that there is huge difference of 45 minutes in the sunrise. Soon the trees near the apartment will be a burst of color and just like the moment when sun is the most beautiful before dusk, the same way one day they are orange, yellow and red, and next day they are at the foot of the naked tree, leaving it cold grey and naked to face the bracing winter.
The weather is now slowly changing to pleasant without bieng nippy or sultry. I like this weather for my semi nightly walk as the time I leave, the sun just decides to do a favor and come out. I have a field day in plucking noones flowers for god almighty at home and then a walk.
A nice practice of HIs have started. There is a small family owned diner on the way and the old owner almost always acknowleges my hi. Then a fast paced bispectacled lady meets me and mutual nod and smiles later I am on my own. Then the usual community mates on the track most of them of my countrymen and true to what I had been brought up with (which I long stopped practicing, thanks to greeting even a stranger thanks to my adopted country habit) "dont smile, wave or greet strangers". So my face becomes non commital again as I have been at looked at like a crazy smiling electric shocked haired, masked fast walking gal.
But a smile surely brightens the day, especially when time of staying at home for longer durations n me and pilla banging each others heads and better (?) half perpetually meditating, these smiles will surely act like nuts the squirrels gather. Frowns just drizzle away.
