Grateful For The Recovery , Art By Younger Son, Musical Library And Independence Day In Native Home

Hey Amazing hearts🥰♥️

Hope beating smoothly on the rhythm of life despite odds ♥️👍

Heartfelt thanks to each of you for sending your good wishes and healing thoughts to me on previous  my post🥹🙏♥️

Your words are my strength and I believe it was God’s grace, hubby’s much care and your prayers that helped me to heal in no time 🥹🥹🥹

Yes my shingles healed within a week thank goodness and I am on my feet again since three days with utter grace of God🥹🙏

Dear friend Sue said maybe I took some stress which led to that remnant of chickenpox bacteria reactivate . I contemplated over this for a while but couldn’t figure out what stress I might have taken . When I was writing her that I don’t think I was taking any stress these days my mind suddenly shook up with thought of extreme heat and humidity we have been suffering from. And my response to her question turned negative . Yes a struggle to move through extremely hot days are stressful undoubtedly 😞 Our body feels this stress unknowingly which results in such severe symptoms sometimes . Later we knew that not just our city but my native part is facing this problem and many people are having shingles unfortunately. I just hope that we can find vaccination for this painful disease here like other countries but seeing the signs I don’t think it’s going to happen any sooner ☹️

Anyway,after recovering I visited my mother in law which I have postponed last Friday due to tiredness. Then there was a small family gathering for fixing the marriage proposal between one of our nieces and nephews. Both are first cousins and in early twenties. Wedding will be determined later because mother of the bride isn’t well and having treatment for Asthma.

I want to thank Sue who kept texting me during my illness. It surly made pleasant affect on my mental health meanwhile,specially when I wasn’t able to walk at all. She is sweet and such an inspiration 🥰♥️

Hubby was great support too who didn’t leave my side even for a while . Even he was looking after household,cooking particularly and supervising youngest son for few necessary pieces of jobs as well, he attended my shingles twice to thrice a day so healing can be achieved quickly. And it worked miraculously 🥹🙏

I am grateful for having my mobility back and I will try to keep it slow so heat doesn’t act on physical weakness as severely.

Destruction brought by climate change has damaged national economy hugely and badly unfortunately and watching how much damage has been caused one can assume that reconstruction will take longer time and more money to recover from such traumatic conditions 😞😔☹️

 It is assumed that after every seventy years when our planet changes its pools such severity of situation is witnessed. I wonder how much time it will take weather  to settle down and behave normal again? 

No matter how far we have come in modern technology and advancement on various levels , when it comes to face Nature’s fury we seem like a string in the ocean 😔

Sharing  art created by younger son from Karachi. All educational academies and offices were closed in order to solve issues of rainwater that has turned the city in big pond . Thankfully things are getting better quickly after monsoon spell is gone 🙏 Younger son also shared few pics of an interesting place he had visited with friends. It’s quite a big musical library which was owned by someone who had great fondness for Urdu music. I wish my son could have tell me name of the owner. But for some reason he couldn’t learn it.  

 

Centaurs Mall Islamabad,  we don’t eat out most of the time but luckily youngest son found a deal in which plate for one person included spinach along with chicken,we had only spinach dish with bread which was so delicious and later harmless as well thankfully 🤗

     The big round pot in our front yard provides some very delightful treats for eyes and soul always 🥰♥️

Younger son created this on his sketch book first and then  on his tablet, characters are from the game he had created online for community in which he initiated the story and other participants adds layers to his story twice a week I think. He said he is enjoying how people share their ideas and story plant getting taller slowly. Reminds me that maybe such ideas existed in past as well but right now I can’t remember where I could locate it.

Pakistan has rich history of art and literature. I was fortunate to witness some good peaceful years before internet and social media turned things into rapid and artificial thinking which exists on surfaces and fears to getting into depth. Reading books, listening music, being creative with innate gifts was normal because people’s had time to slow down and contemplate. It’s often said that why great people or ideas aren’t being produced anymore. I think because we got to busy with escapism and stay busy in entertaining our surface thoughts only . Term use it or loose it frightens me when I think of consequences of it 😔☹️

These glimpses made my eyes teary at first because brought lots of memories back when I would listen music most of the day on radio while growing up 🥹

   I am sure many of you are familiar with this gramophone machine, my parents though did not have it I guess but they mentioned listening music on gramophone,maybe they had it before I was born ♥️ I think it’s pretty modern version of that old one.

     My brother’s daughter celebrated 14 August Independence Day with her cousins and shared few glimpse of how they all dressed up for the occasion 🤗 .me and my sister and our dear mom would celebrate our Independence Day with patriotic enthusiasm when we were in school 🥹♥️🥰

Thank you for being with me precious friends,hope you found my simple post interesting ☺️

You all are in my thoughts and prayers always sweet people,please stay positive and grateful for gifts you have and keep spreading your light among all around you 🥹🥰♥️

Health,peace and happiness to you all and to all you love ♥️🙏

Peripheral Neuropathy ,Sudden Blisters And Glimpses Of Recent Trip To Islamabad

 

Hey Sweet Hearts 🥰

Hope all are creating best of what you have at the moment with faith and strength of undefeated Hope 🥰

I pay thanks for everyday I am given , every blessing I have because I believe that including my life everything is a gift 🙏

Four days ago when I went to sleep while reciting some comforting holy verses I had no idea that next day when I will wake up I won’t be able to walk. No not some worst thing happened thankfully 😅 

When I tried to walk I felt that sole of my left foot was aching. I walked on my right foot for chair . When I observed I saw few dim , pinkish spots appeared on sole. I felt something was wrong with place above my left heel as well.There were also few blisters like burns. Any we went to the skin doctor immediately who gave some medicine. After taking the medication I  got cold fever at night. Hubby gave me common fever tablets as additional medicine but fever returned after three hours. Hubby guessed that may blisters were not the skin issue at all so he took me to the physician who examined carefully and gave some medication. Today when fever was on hold I checked online about such infections and one phrase  Peripheral Neuropathy  led to read further  about Posterpetic Nuralgia and  then Shingles . Reading about Shingles revealed that almost half population of the world is infected with this disease. We all get through chickenpox in childhood mostly. According to this article virus stays in your body rest of your life after recovering and reactivate in people with weak immune systems years later causing Shingles. Good thing that disease can be vaccinated two doses Shingrix or Zoster which is not available in our country though ☹️ 

I am feeling better today and I hope I will be able to walk in some days.

Today after going through some tough days talking to eldest son on video call was really healing experience 🥹🙏🥰

Now some brighter moments to share that are keeping me happy with their joyful memories ☺️

         Fatima Jinnah Park Islamabad where we walked few times ,this stunning baradari behind us invites visitors to snap some shots and provide shelter in sudden downpour 

                                  After walk visitors sit to dry relax and enjoy the lush scenery 

Shakarpariyan Monument  Park is divided two beautiful parts,  both part give fair and panoramic view of the capital city ,monument standing tall behind reflects unity and diversity of  provinces 

     

An elegant framework of walls surrounding this part of the park provides visitors a sitting place to view the park gardens below and city roads glowing at night 

Many youngsters were sitting by crossing the legs outwardly ,but when I turned and saw mine doing so I asked him to turn his legs inward immediately 

    A pleasing walk in Fatima Jinnah park , I absolutely loved seeing sunset there  ,two old men walking by added more meaning and beauty to my click !

                     Rawal lake view park entrance road provides a one kilometre walk to the park 

 Pleasant weather adds strength and richness to the memories ,I will remember that gorgeous day for long I am sure 

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I bought these two lovely paintings from dollar store Islamabad, green theeme attracts me always and concept is fascinating as well 

Thank you for being with me friends 🥰  and heartfelt thanks for your warm support always 🙏♥️ your kindness is my strength 🥰

Sending you much love and prayers ♥️🙏♥️

Stay grateful 🙏🥰♥️♥️♥️

Pretty Cups , Books , Hadrian Wall And Happy Birthday !

 

Hello Beautiful People 🥰

Hope all of you are finding goodness in life whether through big happiness or little joys 🙏

It took us or only me probably to settle mentally here but now it feels I am actually back for which I am grateful!  Though time passed in that wonderful apartment has turned into sweet memories finally instead longing to go back 😅 Thanks to my precious eldest son who gifted us those amazing moments for two beautiful months 🥰

This time we visited flea markets few times due to heat first week and then excessive rains for a week later. I noticed that in three years prices of second hand things have tripled or even more sadly . It certainly affects the buyer’s capacity to purchase things of liking on reasonable prices. Honestly flea markets don’t seem for people belong to middle class anymore. I used to see foreigners occasionally in such markets buying show pieces particularly. But I realised they just asked and left the shop when couldn’t bargain with shopkeeper. I bought few cups as cups are my favourite thing to collect because they are often broken by youngest son when he washes dishes sometimes. I was happily surprised to find few cups that attracted me because of their lovely appearance. Sharing below photos I took for this post. I am curious if some of you also like to collect cups of tea mugs during trips to different areas ?  I also bought books but this time only two books. I thought if we will be staying in Islamabad for extended periods I will try to locate some library nearby . Below I have shared a wonderful photo shared by Dear Friend Sue from Scotland. Sue and John are visiting Scotland with her truly amazing sister and her husband who live in Canada. Sue’s sister has cancer which was really a heartbreaking news ! But she instead staying at home and grieving decided to take trips to different European countries ,isn’t it very inspiring dear friends 🥹🥰 I really appreciate such level of strength and wisdom 🤗🥰♥️🙏  As I often say things we can’t control don’t worth wasting time on. So we should embrace the every moment of life gratefully because it’s gift just for once only 🤗♥️

The last photo is of my precious baby, my eldest son who’s birthday is today 🥰🙏♥️  Happy Birthday to my precious Son 🙏♥️Hope you will enjoy my simple joys♥️🙏

Sorry I couldn’t straighten out this photo, first book is written by British author Robert Lomas , I found it’s introductory lines appealing.hope it will be interesting to read. Second book is written by Turkish writer Elif Shafak ,I have read two books and I really enjoyed them .it’s fiction and I feel it also won’t disappoint me.

      These pretty bowls cost  5. 28 dollars that are 1500 rupees here ,so expensive,I had bought plates of such quality in less than half price three years back :(

Each cup cost 200 rupees Pakistani and I didn’t turned them in dollars so you just make a guess please 

               My most favourite one with lush green and flowers and cute rabbit 🤗🥰♥️

                                                        Opposite side of same cup above ♥️

                                                     Both sides of the same cup this and below 

                                                  I love stories and this cups tells one 🤗♥️

                          

                   I loved how the theme of this cup describes grandmother,I wish I could gift it to mine 

      These two  hanging plates cost 1000 and I bet if it wasn’t hubby the shopkeeper would have given me on double as he started first. I could never learn how to bargain. Hubby says I am on the other side instead of his.this sounds serious accusation ☹️

          I love paintings that display village life and this is the only reason I insisted to buy them,I know I can never afford to buy actual paintings in my life. The simplicity is the real beauty and we lost it sadly!

       Sue and her dear sister climbed the toughest and highest part of Hadrian’s wall in Scotland and this is so sweet of her to send me the picture because last time I have commented on her  video  that she seemed little breathless . So she shared this wonderful photo of their accomplishment 🥰👍 

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Today it’s 32nd birthday of our eldest son 🥹♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️🙏. Our hearts can’t stop praying for him as he has such a soft and kind soul which touches every heart he encounters I am sure 🥹🥰♥️🙏

Heartfelt thanks for being with me dear friends 🥰🙏

May each day bring you peace, happiness and health by the grace of God!🥰🙏♥️

Back To Our Home

Hello precious Friends 🥰

Hope everyone is having blessed,beautiful days by the grace of God🥰🙏

We are back home after spending almost two awesome months in our bnb rental ( thanks to our eldest son and God who gave him capacity and wisdom to do so)  Time flew by so quickly as they say good times seem shorter. Best thing was existing without feeling constant heat pressure and sweating 🥵 And for it we felt thankful everyday 😍🙏 When it started to rain in first week of our arrival we were overjoyed 🥹But it was heartbreaking to keep receiving sad news from different parts of the country then . Heavy rains seemed unusual though but land-sliding and flooding caused serious damage to the property and many people,specially tourists who were visiting the upper northern part.  Such incidents made it hard to focus on bright side. Hubby would tune in the news channel after finishing exercise and I would prepare breakfast. The horrible news would make my heart heavy. Everyday The last line of the news would be that hundreds of people died in Palestine because of attacks and hunger. It would make it painful to eat afterwards honestly!  Then one day I suggested hubby if he can switch new time ,and he agreed. News about floods and earthquakes in various parts of the world keeps me sad and I know I can’t do anything to correct them. But I can help those around me who suffer from any such tragedy or pray to the God for whole humanity! And I never stop it🥹🙏

We arrived here yesterday morning (11 am almost) . I was terrified already with assumptions of possible heat we could face but continuous rain in different areas has deduced the heat here as well thankfully!  

Loads of cleaning were waiting for us which we did until the evening. We were utterly exhausted and fainting during dinner so went to bed early. Today is cloudy but still hot . But I. Know I will be used to it within week because I am spent 33 years here. Hubby said once paper work of retirement is over we can stay in Islamabad for all six extremely hot months. To be honest,we have skipped the idea of buying house in Islamabad because of very high inflation rise we have seen in last four years. It was highest jump ever I believe. 

Sharing below some shots taken during trip to two different 

places . Hope you will enjoy the glimpse.

       One of the best things was I could meet my sister, I asked her if she can accompany me to the graveyard as I wanted to visit my father ‘s grave like every second year we come. She agreed and we could spend some nice sisters time together by the grace of God 🙏  it was a lovely meeting which gave us opportunity to exchange our thoughts on matters of common interest like family,relationships and children particularly.

     This one was captured by youngest son in Fatima Jinnah Park,a largest family walking (750 acres ) lush ,serene and very beautifully maintained.  It was 15 minutes drive away from us yet we visited there few times because of its lovely environment. We finished our walk and sat down to enjoy the beauty of surroundings ,then I asked my son to take a photo so I can share it in post and revisit the moment sometime ☺️ park hardly remains empty but morning and evening are pretty crowded.

I took this picture during our visit to Rawalpindi Lake View Point Park , it was very cloudy day actually but we decided to take the risk of being drenched in the case of rain.  When we arrived the  rain started but it was very thin and periodic and stayed that way during whole day. Visitors seemed happier with lovely weather.  An unknown small local band was singing songs on microphone with original background music which was played on record ( I didn’t know it could be done that way actually) many people were surrounding the band ,few were coming ,staying and cheering then leaving. Some were appreciated with money including us. 

   Music has filled the place with spiritual elegance and emotional depth which turned every scene in something more profound and meaningful!

                                             Dams are full  after the one week rain 

       I noticed an English woman  passed by with her Pakistani husband but we were returning hurriedly so couldn’t take the photo.

 

   Combination of breeze in slight rain was so great to feel good 🤗♥️

Thanks for being with me dear friends!

I wanted a write more but time is up . I have to say prayer and then make green tea . I bet you too pray for yourself and for all we all love dear friends! God is always around and within. Everything we have is his gift . So thanking Him is must ! And praying for us and for all is needed. He can guide us to do better in life and spread love instead hate! 

Thinking of you all dear friends 🤗🥰🙏♥️

Sending much love and best wishes to all Amen 🥰🙏

Mystery Of The Baby’s Death!

 

Hey dear Friends !

Sorry for not being around since few days. We had to revisit my village immediately . Actually some days back while we were sleeping my brother’s wife called and informed that something sad had happened . Almost two months ago when we have arrived in Islamabad, the eldest daughter of the my cousin (whom I have visited last year to attend the wedding ceremony of her daughter and son in the same time) called. She told she was calling from hospital where she had given birth to a healthy baby boy three days ago. She sounded very happy and excited while she invited us to her home when she would arrive home after discharge.I congratulated her and promised that we will visit her when we will come to the village. We kept our promise but the day we visited her she and her husband had gone to the hospital because baby had some health issue. We returned Islamabad after two days stay. And then few weeks later we got this sad call that baby had died at the age of one and a half and a month! We felt sad and shocked suddenly and left for the village immediately. We couldn’t attend the funeral though but being with grieving mother and grandmothers was a good feeling. I noticed that there were rumours  among the women regarding the death of the child. When I asked my cousin ( maternal grandmother of baby) reason behind it she explained during her cries that her sister (paternal grandmother of the child) had predicted that baby might not survive because he was born with condition in which he had only one wrist bone, and according to myth such babies don’t survive more than a month or some days. This was something totally unexpected and unfamiliar to me. I tried to search about it but couldn’t find a clue. Please share if anyone has some knowledge about such condition! Surprisingly when I told this to hubby he immediately agreed that yes he knew that children born with such conditions don’t survive. He said that may be inner bone structure don’t develop properly in such children unfortunately!

We returned home day before yesterday but I wasn’t feeling well enough to get back to my normal routine. I will be visiting you all from tomorrow hopefully dear friends! 

Thanks for being with me 🙏

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

For Sue ,a kind friend ♥️

Hello dear friends ♥️

Hope and pray that everyone is having blessed day by the grace of God!🙏

Our weather has taken a pleasant turn since it’s raining throughout the country including capital city Islamabad.  Temperatures are spinning around 35 to 24 c and you can imagine how it makes us happy and grateful 🥹🙏 Time is running speedily and days to get back to our hot city are getting closer. For the first time in life hubby and me don’t want to leave surprisingly 🤗. And it’s only because of the glassed wall that gives us strong feelings of connection with nature 🥹☺️🤗🥰🤗 it’s beautiful here with everything so perfect 🤗🙏 But we will be leaving for home before July ends anyway 😅. Sharing below glimpse of our little joys in previous week. 

Dear friend Sue and I keep in touch once a while . Sue is a wonderful person who participates in life to fullest by the grace of God! She and her husband John run some company related to computer systems. She teach badminton to younger students and writes for a magazine as well for which she has to go through different ways including interviewing people from various professions and backgrounds. She inspires every heart who is in love with life 🥰 Sue has mentioned once that she would like to see highlights of markets I visit here. So I have captured not some perfect but random pictures during our visit to Karachi company market,I  always wondered about this dislocated name of the market so when I googled about it this article showed up Karachi company . Thanks Sue for showing interest in our capital city ♥️. I will try to share some more photos in future. 

This year market seemed quite and lonesome because of CDS crack down of  illegal occupancy by  so many sellers. I realised that majority of the customers would prefer to buy from those cheap shops on midways and footpaths. Most of the shops had some,few or no customers. Hubby said the occupants will return by bribing the municipality because such changes don’t stay for long .

                             

         Bed sheets shop , I realised I never bought anything like this from here 

          

Most of the shop owners use the walking area as well for which they have to pay extra charges I guess 

         The samosa  and pakora shop , such shops have long queues during morning and evening hours 

Now, one of the lovely news , my dear friend Shazia visited us in our apartment and it made me so happy 🥰🤗 she came with her youngest son who is 20 years old and second year in university. Best thing she stayed for one night and two days which makes it longest period of time we spent together ever 😊 we had best time chatting 😍 

We visited the Centaurs Mall where we did some shopping and had ice cream after few years 😃 children ate pizza and chips with cold drinks as usual. This will stay with me for long 🥰

 

                           Taken another day in same market while hubby and me were taking tea 

                              Shot is taken in Safa Gold mall in Jinnah Super Market Islamabad

                                                  Karachi company market main entrance 

                                        Safa gold mall , embroidered shawls and other items 

                                                                 Toys shop in Safa gold mall 

          Safa gold mall has far smaller crowds than Centaurus Mall even after food court has been altered 

                      While paying on the counter i took this shot as view was truly captivating 

                                                         Jinna super Market main entrance 

         It was quick click while walking in the Golra market near by , it reminded me days when we would drink from clay pots in clay bowls,  though clay pots are things of the past now but clay things still fascinate and interest many of us even today including me 😊

Heartfelt thanks for bearing with me precious friends 🥰🙏

Health, peace and happiness to you all and to all you love 🥰🙏♥️♥️♥️