A View From The Past.

Over my shoulders, the trodden path is visible,

Grey and green and with autumn leaves and some spring greens.

The past looks so grey when sorrow stabbed my heart,

But suddenly the pain gives way to happiness so fresh.


A coffeee well brewed, a story well told,

A friend ever at my call, and a book well written.

A love forelorn and an end so sudden the path is grey,

But life beckons and I am walking.

Jayamala.

Lakshmi.

Navarathri being over, I pray that let there be plenty of prosperity in this world.I am realizing of late that prosperity or no prosperity life goes on.Thw prayers done and the special Friday Pournamy prayers being done to invoke Lakshmi the goddess of prosperity is all needed at one level.But as I write this I am also aware that because I have no food problems I am able to philosophise like this.

A want is generated as the people wanting them are at that level of need.My worry can be how far I can spent on giving gifts and the gardner asking me for RS.400/ tomorrow to buy a second hand cycle.I always think why he was able to ask me?I would rather not present a picture inviting free money.Someone told me that Lakshmi stays with people who do not squander her.

Just my thoughts.I know I will end up by giving that four hundred rupees.

Jayamala.

My Thoughts On Advertisements.

Iam nowadays seeing so many advertisements that are quite bad in presentation.For example there is an advertisement which shows a class and a student, a young boy asking why Rosie Miss is absent.Another informs that her dog had died.This boy goes to Rosie Miss's house and the teacher sits on the front stone steps sad and looking mentally sick with her dog's tie rope empty.The boy acts like a dog consoling the teacher rolling in the mud,fetching the ball etc.The advertisement is for Surf Excel the soap powder.But the teacher who should be a model to the students in courage looks to me like a mental case.

So also in another advertisement for pregnancy prevention( Unwanted),the Mother of the girl advises her get it terminated.I think this advertisement also is bad as it condones and shows a girl a method to indulge in and rectify.I did read in some papers that the Govt. had objected to this advt.But so far nothing is done and it is being shown.

I realize that India is vast and so many such bad media does happen without anyone realizing.But shouldn't we do something.So I am blogging here.

Jayamala.