Rekha's Ramblings

  My heart goes out to all the parents , exactly 2 years ago the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting and now this, heart is gripped by sadness , can't think of anything but the lives of my 3 children. I saw some friends change their profile picture to a black screen shot . I am sitting here & debating whether I should do the same to honor those children & their parents .But if I do that , then the other side would have won, so I will not cave in & give into those that want us to be sad , frightened & make my day a black day , rather I think we should all put pictures that are close to our hearts , pictures of the moments that we have all cherished as mothers, fathers , as parents . Ramblings of a distraught parent!  

   Makes one think, as to where are we headed as humans and if there is "someone" watching over us, how long is he going to wait to intervene ? We are all meant to die someday but this is definitely not the way. Then why give us birth at all ? Those little ones had served their purpose, their time had come, is that the argument ? I am just glad that I don't believe in the "unseen" . I wonder if it is bothering any of the gun makers throughout the world or are they saying , it's a job , somebody needs to make them ...ramblings of a distraught mother!

  Recently travelled through 4 different international airports in 3 different continents & just wish that all the airports would talk to each other & come up with universal safety guidelines . Why is it that some of them ask you to take your shoes off but some don't , why some of them let you carry "x" amount of 3 oz bottles but some of them only allow you 1-2 ozs / person , some ask you to take all the liquids including baby food/ formula out while some don't care . It is very frustrating when the departure airport lets you take stuff & the transit airport throws away the very same stuff . Do I have any rights to complain or should I forgo them for my safety and security of others ? Ramblings of one very frustrated traveler.  

O ne of my friends described these pictures as "reflection of the photographer's personality " ...I think the title does perfect justice to the photographs & the photographer . Lol ! A happy me and my happy ramblings !!

  My Husband has offered to buy me a Kindle , an e-reader , it apparently gives you a wide variety of reading material without the clutter of books & saves space. My argument, can it offer me the smell & feel of an actual book ? No . Then I will stick to my cheap ,used book sale . As for the clutter , don’t care ..ramblings go on!  

  Every time, I open my FB page, on the left side; it asks me about my favorite sports team. Well, I have none. Back in the days, used to watch cricket, of course only the Indian team being the favorite. Also watched Tennis when Steffi Graf & Boris Baker were at the peak but somewhere along the line have lost total interest in any sport. I wasn’t athletic to begin with, have never played any sport myself but seemed to have lost any and all interest in them. We go to watch our son perform with his school band team at the school football game without understanding the game or making any efforts to understand it. I watched all the people get caught in the World cup phenomena but I felt nothing. Am I the only person in this world or is there something wrong with me? Meanwhile, only favorite team remains to be our High School football team , the only one I know ...rambling, rambling!!

  Recently watched Hindi movie “Bhoothnath returns”, only reason to watch was of course Big B. But found the movie rather interesting, where the living people are so frustrated with the system and are afraid of the system that a “ghost “decides to contest the Indian parliamentary election against an incumbent candidate from Dharavi. I think the movie was released just prior to the election with a social message to go & vote, even if it was “none of the above.” Some said why waste their holiday to stand in line for 3-4 hours to just click on “none of the above”. My 15 year old categorized the movie under “a fantasy “genre. And then he asked me, “Why don’t they just legalize corruption?” Rambling for this Friday!

  My dear father, who always believed in me , who is always there to guide me when I need , who instilled his love for reading “anything & everything” in me; counting my blessings for having the best father who enabled me to be confident & courageous without whom I would never be where I am. These are not ramblings, this is me being grateful !!!!  

  Ok , so I went to Wal-Mart this morning, my substitute “church” and they wished me a”happy mother’s day” & handed me a rose. So while all of you are telling me that I don’t look like a mother of three, Walmart certainly knows so.I wonder what kind of research they did to know who is a mother and who isn’t, was it the four different kinds of bread in my cart or was it the “Capri Sun” that gave it away ? Then again, all my fellow moms , if nobody at home made you feel special , go to Wal-Mart. …Ramblings on this mother's day!  

  Although , I speak , read & write English fluently, my basic education was done in Marathi, one of the many Indian languages . I learnt basic math,science, history & geography in Marathi. Somebody once told me that if & when you start dreaming in English, it is then that  you have mastered that language. I believe I dream in English & I almost,always think in English( the fact that I am writing this blog in English is a proof of that ) however, when it comes to basic math facts such as addition, subtraction, multiplication or division, my brain automatically translates all the numbers in Marathi,I do the math in Marathi,translate the answer back in English & then answer ,all in a few seconds. I know my multiplication table up to 12 , but If you question me in English,I translate the numbers in Marathi, calculate, retranslate in English & then answer . I don’t know if any or all the people that speak more than one languages do this ...

  We live in this southeast corner of VA where the winters are supposed to be mild; it gets cold, temperatures drop to 20’s in the night but little or no precipitation,may be an occasional snow of may be an inch or 2. But this year, we have had an awful winter with several snows leading to an accumulations of 8-9 ” at times.The schools have been cancelled for 7 days in the past month & half .We are now almost to the end of March & the weather today is ” cloudy with snow showers .”I am sitting here thinking will this ever end,will the warm temperatures ever come our way ? Some say, since we have had a rough winter, we will have a rough summer too . I personally will take the 100 degree hot summer versus the 20 degree cold any time. It even snowed as south as Texas & Florida this year, so there really was no escape.We have had periods of warm weather followed by longer periods of cold weather . I just hope that the mother nature makes its mind up soon ....Not much ha...

  I come from the so called land of " tea" but such a wide variety of "tea" is only available in the land of "opportunity"...Friday is a good day for some ramblings !