Memories

With A lot of things happening I have sort of lost thread of what I was writing in past, so I think I'll keep writing whatever I remember and leave the sequence aside. Also I might repeat myself but excuse me for my memory.
I remember my paternal Grandmother as a rosy cheeked plump lady who always had something for us. I remember her with a pile of bangles by her side and distributing them to us. She is the one who named Guns gungun cause believe it or not she was a gungun when she was baby with a mass of curly golden hair. She used to do a lot of Sewa at Ramgarhia Gurudwara and I also remember her doing sewa there. As she was born and brought up in Jabalpur she used to read Hindi newspaper and was more fluent in Hindi. She was eldest of five daughters and a brother.Her father was a big contractor in jabalpur. Infact there is a colony named Hari singh nagar after him in jabalpur. Part of property he owned was Plaza Talkies. And papa says at one time her brother even owned a hockey team. She also used to make thrHer ead from old clothes and get it rewoven into sheets . infact we still have one or two. I remember her with a wooden thing twisting thread on it. I don't know the name for it.

Quotations

BEAUTY is worse than wine;it intoxicates both holder and beholder. Zimmerman
BLUSH is the colour of virtue. Diogenes
BOLDNESS is ever blind,for it sees not dangers and inconveniences;whence it is bad in council though good in execution. Francis Bacon
BROADMINDEDNESS is the result of flattening highmindedness out. George Saintsbury

Quotable quotes.

I found this book presented to Shireen by Harjot(who is not with us anymore) and decided to put it on net.It seemed irrelevent after the recnt happenings but I decided to go ahead with it . It goes Alphabetically.
ADMIRATION is a very short - lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. Joseph Addison
ADVICE is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, the deeper it sinks into mind. S.T.Coleridge
ANGER is warmth which lights itself. An African Saying.
ANXIETY is rust of life destroying its brightness and weakening its power.A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive remedy.
APOLOGY is only egotism wrong side out- Nine times out of ten the first thing a man's companion knows of his shortcomings, is from his apology. O.W.Holmes
APPLAUSE is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim for weak ones. Charles Caleb Colton
ATHIESM is rather in life than in the heart of man. Francis Bacon
AVARICE, in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road as we approach to our journey's end. M.T.Cicero

Terror

Seems like these are going to be new kind of wars. Refelects the state of affairs in the world. Everything is without rhyme or reason, total chaos. Human life has no value. Ethics have taken a beating. Is it any different from what is happening in normal life around us. All I can say Is I dread the future , what it holds for us. Suddenly life is not so beautiful anymore.

Back Home

It seems like a dream now as I am back to routine. But it was a good trip. Thanks to everyone who managed to spring the surprise and all those who managed to keep it under wraps. Hope to post photos soon abouth the trip. I'll always remember my scoring my half century.And may we manage many more occasions like this. Hope to keep up my walking practice though it looks like a distant dream as by the time i get home its dark and will I ever manage to get up early enough.