“I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.” What does it take for a person to stand up for the truth ? can you say its one conscience, or guts ? Many a time whenever I have stood up for the truth, I have always been isolated, looked down upon and its odd that we adults talk so much about doing right walk in Gandhijis footsteps, and standup for the truth, but when it comes to taking up a cause and going all the way... a complete turnaround. But my grouse is leave me alone.. I am in it purely on account of my deep rooted conscience. Havent we heard that "Conscience is the softest pillow"I truly believe it is and have often failed to let my head rest whenever I have not been true to it... which is a rare case, To be able to stand up all alone for the truth and still hold your head high is something that I will never forget. It happened to us, my husband and me, at a meeting the only one who stood up for the truth and the rest just buckled under pressure tactics, it was tough and mentally exhausting for us but We had Divine Intervention we had the Hand of God with us right from the start that what you get for always standing up for the Truth. Never ever succumb to anyones tactics, bribes, pressures or any such tries that may deter you from your Truth Goal. I have been there and the experience and reward has definately me wanting for more.

Its that time of the year when THE KING of all fruits makes an annual comeback.The trees are laden with fruit and every other fruit just fades away.The trees are laden with raw mangoes and it seems the King is late... The crows are building their nests, and the warm sunny afternoons are the perfect temperature for a chick or two to be hatched. Watching the crows from my window engaged in frantic activity it seems they too have their share of rivalry and 'prime land' disputes, its not only we humans..nice. Watching a crow building the nest with plastic cords(thats soft for the chick!)a few mins later another of the rival gang crows comes and strips the nest of all its plastic and in a blink a cacaphony of crows cawing out so loudly. Just watching them peck at each other so violently made me realise that there were two "gangs" and it was very, very interesting just trying to figure who was in which gang. Yours truly lost it, and couldnt figure out who were the goodies and who were the baddies.A while later all was quiet and there the crows were starting from scratch. Its a wonderful world.

There are no good-byes, where ever we are, you’ll always be in my heart.

What a wonderful ten days' vacation that was, days filled with uncertainity, we decided right from the start that we would have nothing planned for the day. Go on as the day advanced, and wake up when we wanted, eat if we wanted to, and sleep when we felt like it. Must say it was fabulous, to have done it the way we wanted and no relatives to go avisiting. Just the lazy beautiful days stretched before,mornings were spent at the beach a jog, a walk, an absolute soak in the sea with miles and miles of openness, and the sun just about peeping at us, heavenly !the power of nature could be felt in the huge waves that just flung us around the beach like rag dolls, ... just like that . What a feeling.
The rest of the days passed by in the proverbial "blink of an eye", we did manage to spend time at the quite country side watching the beauty we all miss here and soaking in the fresh air, the food was heavenly, and cant blame my knees for groaning now and then...
I was dreading the moment when we had to say goodbye to no one in particular but to our beautiful house, which has now become a home, my heart broken into a thousand pieces to watch it go out of sight as we drove off ..headed for our back to work destination.