Some Beautiful Moments Frozen In Camera

 

Hello Beautiful Souls!

Hope blooming in the September with all your light and beauty❤️

We are fine and waiting for cool days . Temperatures are still spinning around from 30 to 38 in the duration of  24 hours. 

Having guests often , hot weather and house chores occupy most of my time .Actually there is a wedding coming in the family and having more guests is part of it. So today when i looked at my blog i was already late for post .I was lacking idea to write about so sharing few images from our recent trip to Islamabad few glimpse of northern beauty we witnessed ,hope you will find them interesting. 

during our four days stay in the hotel we took walks often in the city and surroundings as much as we could, as breathtaking views were so compelling. This very vibrant and pretty photo was taken during one of our walk. while scrolling city shops we passed by some restaurant building ,these delightful bunch of sunflowers was adding beauty in the view .Hubby felt this appeal first and asked me to take photo as his phone was in my hands already for this purpose. I took two shots .hubby asked a man sitting close to the main gate if we can grab dry flowers for having seeds .Man allowed and hubby plucked few dry flowers. I wrapped them in tissue and kept inside my handbag . We will see if they can grow when season comes in November 🤞This is for you who love September 's flavour of autumn and sunflower :)

  

this is taken during one of our such walks in opposite direction from the city,The surroundings were packed with heavenly and relaxing views. Scenes spread everywhere were awesome and if it was in my hand i could stay and glance at them for so long tirelessly 🥹🥹🥹 When we reached at this point we noticed voice of rushing water .Hubby and me decided to get inside this area just to check if we can locate water . As we entered we were on big roof where a car was parked at side,as we got on the edge of the roof we saw flowing water (image below)

while we felt stunned by the beauty of flowing river a lady in her mid thirties appeared suddenly and said words of greeting smilingly ,at first we felt bit nervous because we did not know there must be someone ,but her friendly behaviour and sweet smile relieved us .we took two shots and left by saying goodbye which she responded with warm smile once again. In my entire i wished for finding people who are warm and greet whole halfheartedly regardless of cast ,gender or any other reason. We noticed that the people living there were as similar in their warm behaviour and level of honesty as they were trained ethically from early age .I found it so uplifting and impressive .According to my knowledge here
the Ismaili community is ingrained basic value of goodness , true love of God and faith instead just shallow practice of religion which makes them love and respect everyone without any discrimination.Can't define how much sooth this delvers to my heart and i wish we all follow such golden rules so life on planet can flourish as Creator wanted it ! 

On our attempt to enter this area our middle son tried to stopped us and when we did not listen he  stayed behind on the road . He said entering there is violation of property 's privacy .  i truly love him for this gesture and respect him for his  loyalty with  rules and regulations.But honestly, we thought that who can be on the barren roof ? we assumed that someone parked the car there due to lack of parking area and even though place was walled with tins, there were open spaces here and there . you can see how annoyed he looks :) later when we told him that nothing bad happened he still took while to behave normal . I felt proud as a mom though🥹

  these two pictures are taken on the day we spent visiting different tourists points. We found each one better than other ! Such mesmerising views seemed beyond our dreams even ❤️🥹our driver plus guide took many shots of children and hubby and each looks master piece to me even if was taken through phones Samsung and iPhone 

i realised that timing and lighting  make huge difference when we take photos ,for example pictures taken in morning and evening times or cloudy days come so fine ,this was late afternoon and it was less than hour to sunset ,still sunlight does not spoiled the images thankfully!

on return when our middle son left for university ,after few days,  we visited Pakistan Monument that is mostly packed with visitors ,the gorgeous architecture that opens up like a beautiful flower shines amazingly in night lighting set very thoughtfully ! it was nice and warm evening but due to elevation park environment was cool ans pleasant 

we missed our middle son ,though our younger son kept us amused and smiled throughout the visit ,while writing this my heart is missing him more as he too has gone far to study in university !!!🥹❤️

The row of hills you see behind pass through my little village dear friends ,so i searched a less crowded corner and stood there to take a look of these beautiful hills who seem to whisper to my heart that "they miss me too" 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

With all the bundle of health issues i don't know how life will layout in future ,but i try not to waste my time in thinking about things beyond my control . i have tried to live in the moment i have in my hands and i believe this is the best way to do life !

Thank you soooo much from the bottom of my heart dear friends for keeping touch and leaving encouraging words ! They bring me strength and hope to have such kind and sweet friends to whom i can share my thoughts always ! 🙏❤️🥹

Health <peace and Happiness to you all and to all you love 🙏❤️

See you soon!

Hey Universe ! What Are You Up To ? A Poem By Baili

 When i look at you ,you are dense and vast 

Like  withered debris from gunfire's blast 

At first glance full of beauty and peace 

Puzzled and complicated when look into deep

Happy, sad ,angry  confused or frail ?

Sometimes i feel "cat chasing it's tail"

At first, i found you full of different things

Realised,in all your tunes ,One song you sing!

Song of life and death, song of stillness and breath

Existence ,survival, revolution and growth 

Song of good and bad ,song of light and dark

Song is actually" One "sung by reptile or lark

Everything around is your thought's reflection

As you are experiencing your own expressions

As you had no one to play along with you

And to do so created countless versions of you

From tiny to huge stuck in crazy rotation 

Everything here  seem to follow same old fashion

I wonder what set you on this clueless roam ?

Or you acted randomly on your first thought own

Did you think of the way and everything be need ?

Or you felt content by holding single seed (hope to reach somewhere maybe)

Seed of  desire to swirl in an endless dance ?

Making sure joining you all your nuance 

Where is the wall that gives back what it take?

Why all actions done here are "echoing back" ?

Trying to figure out some mystery unsolved ?

Is there with you anybody else is involved ???

Is this  circulation is just meaningless passion?

Or you too have some specific destination ?

If you searching something ,how silly this sound

How one get somewhere by going round and round?

Or your swirl is way of transformation ?

From "being" to not "being" a silent conversion ?

Is all the existential labour is done for purification ?

So you can embrace back your Centre after Liberation ?

My all assumptions will keep me  anxious 

Until i melt and dissolve into your ocean 

Maybe i will find answer ever or never will be 

But being part of your journey is enough for me!

Stuff Of My Life

 Hello Sweet Hearts!

Hope beating beautifully on the rhythm of life!

This is September, a month in which autumn starts to show it' s colour. It's been ages since i witnessed true autumnal beauty in my native village. Trees and plants stay here green for extended period because of hot weather. We wait for cooler days to witness little colours of the season in our small garden. Maybe it is slowly changing weather that brings nostalgia or aging that i am missing autumn more this year.

This is pleasant noon and i am saying this because i don't have to cook lunch in the kitchen today as we have some chicken curry and all i have to cook is two flat bread and that is it. So once i enter and work in the kitchen i encounter with much heat and forget to appreciate the weather that is getting less hot with passing days of September . Right now temperature is 38 c outside but fan air feel cool inside.

I am writing this post on dining table, my favourite place from where i can see bit of the sky, our garden and neem tree that is playing with air joyfully!

I sat here to write after so many days actually. The long and intensely hot  summers leave no room for feel anything but heat and laboured breathing during doing house chores. Our recent stay of 3 months in Islamabad went mostly in hospital visits sadly. Yet we had great time there. Eldest as wise precious soul he is has rented an apartment in posh area where the the huge park was right before where we lived. Though windows did not face the park directly but we took full advantage of this opportunity and took daily walks of 3 to 4 miles regularly. We knew that eldest son wanted us to do so and he knew how much we love walking in this park. God bless him for his kindness! 

I realised that only one thing that kept me pushing towards feeling ill there was that i had to skip exercise which my body needed badly due to arthritis. Actually most of the mornings we had to go to the hospital around 8 am for more than two months.Mornings were time for the exercise. Then business and hacks of the day would not leave energy to do anything but lay low. On the other hand meds started to make me feel more dull. I believe that if i could have continued exercise i would have not been much ill because meanwhile i became vulnerable to my severe anemia, arthritis, stomach ulcer and allergy that occupied the space completely.They have been with me whole life and i have kept them knocked off for decades with my exercise and meditation but this time i made mistake by not thinking about what i was missing actually.

Since here at home now all due cleaning and arranging is done ,i have started exercise and feel energetic already thankfully ! 

Do you ever feel that if you skip exercise for sometime and world around you seems to get enlarge and you feel shrunk before everything around you ?

I felt that way after skipping exercise for three months :( 

But it is just third day of workout and i feel strong and active again :)

Today i am little sad and happy at the same time because our youngest son has left home as he has got admission in the university in other city .

The day he left three of us were emotional and i saw my son trying not to show his emotions first but i could see his slightly wet eyes. Than before bus moved he got down second time and hugged us and said he is thankful for everything and that he will miss us . He asked us not to tire ourselves much .We are in touch daily and he seems happy with this change and is busy in preparation for joining his university.His brothers are guiding him too!

After him, next day when we got up house felt so empty and my eyes were shedding tears after each once in while .I know that today's children are not like us who were so naive and wouldn't survive without parents or will take long to adjust. They are smart and know how to move on and face what lies ahead. But being a parent i feel bit alone an sad! I know i will made peace with this transformation as well with time ,though an emptiness and sense of sadness will stay with us for the life we have ahead. It makes me at peace too and proud too that God has given me an open mind to understand how nature works and follow it's simple laws so life can be a good and light experience for everyone! 

This is the only earning i could made throughout out my life and i feel grateful for that! Everyone has his own way to earn happiness .It makes me utterly grateful and happy that God has gifted me heart who feels happy only when he gives happiness to people around him!

Thank you so much for being with me till here dear friends!

thank you so much for your exceptional love and support that strengthen me and encourages to share more🥹🙏❤️

Health ,peace and happiness to you all and to all you love!!!!

Series Of Inconveniences .......

 

 

Hello dear friends 

Hope having blessed times by the grace of God!

Sorry for my late posting .I have few natural excuses for that actually. As i have mentioned that i was trying to quit medicine as my course ended but felt sick immediately afterwords. I got upset stomach which was more concerning as we had to travel here in next few days.I thought that my body reacted negatively because i tried to break the routine of taking medicines at once. (couldn't think of something else because i have been taking medicines since my early life but felt absolutely fine whenever quit them). Anyway i bought half pack of meds and started to take half dose this time. Then after a week stop taking them. Although my stomach behaved normal this time but the weakness and flu took over. I broke all my previous records of excessive sneezing and feeling sick. I doubt that i made many passengers sick in the bus we rode to home because of my flu was so obvious  🫩So after three beautiful months in Islamabad, We are back home in our small hot and sweating city. We arrived on Tuesday noon. Loads of works were laying here and there idly and we tried to sweep them off with whatever energy was left thankfully. My flu is still accompanying faithfully despite the medication and i keep wondering if treatment or medicine i took in Islamabad was right decision ? And how long this strange side effect gonna stay with me ?

Let me share with you that our home appliances are too acting weird  since we have returned .Our dawlance fridge is not cool anymore . Right now a workman is trying to fix it . We brought lots of laundry to wash with us as machine back there wasn't automatic ,but dawlance front load washing machine started to make noise when reached close to end of it's cycle. Hubby tried to figure out by taking out it's manual guide book. We learnt that we should have wash the drum once in a month which we did not so noise could the be result of dried detergent and debris of threads. It took both of us more than half hour to identify which function will clean the machine. I selected steam function which chose 2 and half hours cycle of cleaning.Though I couldn't find how to set water temperature :(  Although machine is working fine afterwards and no noise anymore but i think hot water selection could have make more significant difference.Will keep try to find this water temperature function for next time.

Story doesn't end here, our tv is not working as well and so is internet device ,can you believe it 🤣

We have dropped our tv on repair shop before leaving and the workman is in Karachi since then and making promises he couldn't keep sadly . Even though we just want him to return advance money (50000 pkr) and tv and we will buy new one but he is responding with new excuse each next day .Lets hope he realises what is doing. None of this is more bothering than feeling ill constantly so i don't have time to worry about these things except wondering if i can feel better ever 😭

Oh did i tell you that we forgot one our very important piece of luggage in our Islamabad apartment . Yes and 100% because all of us were fluish ,add super fluish when talking about me 😩

Thankfully the apartment manger reacted  with sense of responsibility and  sent the bag through cargo service last night . We paid gratitude and money that process cost to him.

I think this is enough complaining for today dear friends ! Big thanks for staying with me till end . I feel encouraged by your love and support 🙏 Will try to get back to my routine asap including visit to my favourite blogs 😍

Sending heartfelt best wishes ,love and prayers on your way precious friends! God bless you all!