A little meditation, going inward and creating a design in front
of the house - it has become a great stress buster and good way of starting the
day, particularly now.
Added to that is the revival of one childhood habit of competing
with my neighbour and a very close friend of six decades.
She had been there for me to guide my steps when I float in my
day dreams (literally and figuratively too!). Marriage and the choices of
profession had taken us to different places; but our hearts found ways to bond
and stay close.
In the twilight years, we have both come to the same city, yet
stay quite a few kilometres away from each other.
We are not given to using mobile and other social media often to
communicate with each other; nor can we be demonstrative of our friendship and
love. so what! Certain things from the childhood come back with renewed vigour
- this was our competition during the month of Markazhi to fill the entrance
with beautiful 'kolam' designs and to see who completed it first.
She is sharing her free hand designs with me because I enjoy
looking at them and also want to incorporate those designs in my kolams (hope,
no patent/copyright issue??!).
I occasionally add a dash of colours to bring a different
perspective.
The kolam design that I created today is here.(The one above)
These flowers were in and out of my thoughts and vision since last two days. They wanted me to feel them, smell them and acknowledge them in my heart.
Morning the watch man stood and looked down at it for few
minutes and showered me with such appreciation that it seemed like the flowers
swayed gently in the breeze and smiled at me.
I wanted to share it with my friend and said " The
competition continues."(Why did I say so?)
She has subtly pointed that out. Ha ha! Feel like those 12-14
year old girl with the whole world within her reach. the kolam down below is the one , my friend has sent!.
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