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!