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Thanks so much for your email wishes and greetings for my birthday.
Birthdays come and go and every year they are telling me how much younger I look and how much younger I am. I am old enough to smile paternally and take it all with a proverbial pinch of salt and the occasional medication for minor ailments as and when they come.
I continue proclaiming how happy I am the age I am and the way I am.
Here’s something more about my growing older and growing up! I wrote it about ten years ago but the sentiments now are much the same….. expressive of how I am and feel just now…
The visuals are from a Team Building camp with SSL college students at our Xavier’s Khandala villa some years ago.
collage photos : kevin d’cruz
The pace is slightly slower now
Though distances unchanged
I march to mellow beating drums
To some, I’m out of range.
I whisper walk through gentle showers,
hear leaves rustle, smell the flowers
clocks no longer rush my hours
schedules new arranged.
Ahead I see in distance mist
a quick paced younger crowd
their colours seem much wilder now
their music much too loud
To them I seem a bit behind
and out of place, I do not mind
my drum beats are another kind
I march with heart unbowed
Through disappearing mists I walk
I look around and see
Beam dance of sun on breeze tossed leaves
Flit birds on branch of trees
By monsoon moist I am embraced
The here-and-now my drums have paced
My life and living present-faced
Years pass on gracefully!
terryq : august, 2002
And with the passing of years, fresh happynings….new pictures… more stories to regale my life with
and I continue looking forward…
True, the pace is slightly slower now but there is enough to do nevertheless. I cannot remember
when I was last bored or anything like that!
Things relatively quiet and peaceful with me just now in-between crescending Malhar noises
and intermittent rain showers.. And the in-between academic indulgences continue with
calculated liberties taken with attendances and assignment deadlines and related things.
Much like older generations did…
Xavier’s carries on being a way of life….
All else is well and life continues as beautifully as it can…with a few bad patches occasionally
(like my recent prolonged viral fever condition) thrown in for dramatic effect or something like that!
Wonder times and dazzle things to you too…
Take care .
Love, Terry