Last year, this time around Janamashtami, my friend and classmate, Ajith, from his ashram at the Himalayan foothills, had transferred money into my account to buy the eight volumes of the 'Maha Bhagavatham' and gift them to mom, on his behalf. She was thrilled to receive the bulky gift but said that she wouldn't be able to finish reading the volumes and had said so to Ajith too.
Was that a prophetic statement as she knew about her impending flight to eternity?
The eight bulky volumes stand on the mantelpiece as a mute testimony of those days last year and the fickleness of human existence on earth. We're poised to ring in mom's first remembrance day on the 25th, as per the Malayalam calendar and the 04th Sep, the date as per the English calendar of her passing away.
Time really flies!
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I'd gone to the neighbourhood 'toothy', Dr. Gopalachari, the avuncular and over 70 year old gentleman who has tended my teeth over the last couple of years since he came and settled here. He speaks softly and gives me a running commentary of what he's doing. It was a sitting that lasted for about 45' and he'd confirmed that my teeth and gums were healthy and fine. His only daughter and son-in-law are dentists too and he's waiting for them to take over the clinic, before retiring, by this year end.
I'd walked back the 400 mts from the clinic because the afternoon sun wasn't that very hot.
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Ramesh, the gardener and his understudy, Muniyandi had fetched up to clip short the grass patch of the courtyard and remove the grass in the kitchen garden. Manure was also applied on all the potted rose plants, the lone coconut tree and the Labernum whose leaves bore a pale green hue! They'd initially agreed to do it tomorrow but had changed their minds, soon after.
Could also tell Raju, our immediate neihhbour, to have a lorry load of mud dumped into the kitchen garden as the ground had started caving in due to less quantities of the prevalent soil. A bit of revamping needs to be done in that area which will be done shortly.
Tailpiece.
Preetha, Lekha's understudy, had taken a day off today as it was the 'fifth day ceremony' after her father-in-law's passing away.
Was that a prophetic statement as she knew about her impending flight to eternity?
The eight bulky volumes stand on the mantelpiece as a mute testimony of those days last year and the fickleness of human existence on earth. We're poised to ring in mom's first remembrance day on the 25th, as per the Malayalam calendar and the 04th Sep, the date as per the English calendar of her passing away.
Time really flies!
* * *
I'd gone to the neighbourhood 'toothy', Dr. Gopalachari, the avuncular and over 70 year old gentleman who has tended my teeth over the last couple of years since he came and settled here. He speaks softly and gives me a running commentary of what he's doing. It was a sitting that lasted for about 45' and he'd confirmed that my teeth and gums were healthy and fine. His only daughter and son-in-law are dentists too and he's waiting for them to take over the clinic, before retiring, by this year end.
I'd walked back the 400 mts from the clinic because the afternoon sun wasn't that very hot.
* * *
Ramesh, the gardener and his understudy, Muniyandi had fetched up to clip short the grass patch of the courtyard and remove the grass in the kitchen garden. Manure was also applied on all the potted rose plants, the lone coconut tree and the Labernum whose leaves bore a pale green hue! They'd initially agreed to do it tomorrow but had changed their minds, soon after.
Could also tell Raju, our immediate neihhbour, to have a lorry load of mud dumped into the kitchen garden as the ground had started caving in due to less quantities of the prevalent soil. A bit of revamping needs to be done in that area which will be done shortly.
Tailpiece.
Preetha, Lekha's understudy, had taken a day off today as it was the 'fifth day ceremony' after her father-in-law's passing away.
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