Rekha's Ramblings

Planned Parenthood is in the news lately and I am wondering, what exactly is Planned Parenthood ?  Is it really as the name suggests it is? Can one really plan and be prepared for parenthood? Certainly, you can plan their arrival into this world suitable to your needs but can you really plan the situations or circumstances they would be born under? You could probably plan which school they would attend, where you will take a vacation with them but can you really plan a parenthood? You can teach them right from wrong , teach them to respect other human beings, make them aware of all the existing world problems;  after that they are on their own. You would think and hope that you have given them enough tools to face the world, taught them the skills they would need to survive. But once they are out in the open world, they will make choices, decisions based on their own experiences, those experiences will teach them more and make them equipped for better or for worse to face more...

It’s thanksgiving, this is my twentieth year, and I am pondering rather sort of reflecting. We didn’t have this tradition of “thanksgiving” when I was growing up in India. I am not a religious person; I don’t celebrate festivals, religious holidays but this is one holiday we do celebrate. There is so much to be thankful for and I am glad that we have allocated a separate day just to do that, just like Mother’s Day or Father’s Day. Agreed you couldn’t celebrate a “mother “or a” father” in a day but we try to thank them at least on those special days.  We get busy in the routine, take so much for granted and then forget to be grateful for simple things that we take for granted ( I myself am guilty as charged ),not for just a roof over our heads and food on the table but for things such as freedom that many don’t have , 24/7 water or electricity, or the ability to see, walk, to go on Facebook and write what you want for that matter …just consider this my ramblings part whatever …take ...

  I love taking pictures, of anything and anyone including myself. I took a few “selfies” using my regular DSLR camera (I don’t know if you can call them selfies if they are taken using a regular camera). It happened to be a sunny day, I love to take photos in the natural daylight, not a professional photographer in the sense that it’s not my profession, I don’t make a living out of it but have taken many photos and think that they are good photos, so if I want a photo of me, why can’t I take one of me by myself? When you see pictures of women, all dressed up, posing in front of the camera, some of them have a daily photo, some post on a weekly basis. A lot of things go through your mind. Some think and I have heard them say “losers, got nothing better to do, so self-obsessed, they lack confidence”…. No matter what anyone says, judgmental we are, at least in the first glance, the opinion can change once we know more about the person or the thing but everybody judges everyone. I mys...

  A couple of years ago when we visited Paris, I went there with a mindset that Paris is just another big city, overrated, what so special about it ... Little did I know that I would fall in love with this city like million others who have been here and seen it for themselves what it has to offer, vowing to visit this place again in near future ....ramblings, don't know what I am saying or doing.

 I read a friend’s post about a veteran suffering from an early onset of Alzheimer’s dementia.  I have been disturbed since then and all those patients I have seen over the course of the last 20 years, their faces flashed by; some faces easily remembered by their names, some easily forgotten.  Usually, I post photos of myself or children or something that takes my mind off but it’s not working and hence here is my little rambling.  My heart goes out to this woman who is taking care of her husband and two children, this woman who was once a wife and still is but now must take care of her husband as a mother …...  I am not an authority on how the US government treats its veterans but  after working in the nursing homes  as an Occupational Therapist for so long ( In the USA, nursing home is a place for adults 65 years  plus where they can get assistance if they can no longer  live at home  independently, meaning  if they  ...