Poya day is coming up tomorrow. It promises to be yet another day to laze around with nothing much else to do but snuggle into bed with a good book, especially given that the Christmas weather has set in.
I just finished Dan Brown’s Digital Fortress. It was absolutely fantastic. He writes so well, you just can’t put the book down. The pictures he draws are vivid and exciting….. Pity I don’t have another book like that to read tomorrow.
Oh today has been a GREAT day. It feels wonderful to know that people care about you or are thinking of you and today many people made me feel so good.
First there were a couple of calls wishing me a good day, then, an old friend dropped by to see me. It had been absolutely ages since we saw each other and I was touched that he visited, bringing along with him with a piece of wedding cake from his sis-in-law’s wedding on Saturday. We had a lovely time chatting about old times and catching up on what’s been happening in our lives.
Then Tusha called to say that she had saved me some birthday cake from my little friend Mela’s birthday yesterday. So there it was again, another box of goodies for me. They were vastly welcomed, for Tusha does wonders with cakes and goodies.
Shirley had written a lovely newsy email of what has been happening with her recently.
Then another friend called to invite me to a dance on Saturday. Shall look forward to that provided of course that there are no serious problems after elections on the 17th.
So all in all I had one lovely, lovely day.
Where does the time fly to? It seems such a short while ago that we were celebrating the New Year 2005 and then suddenly, we are at the end of 2005. Looking back …… I feel as if time has flown and I have stood still….. can that be? Yet when I look around I see changes in the lives of people close to me. Some of the changes they are making in their lives will certainly affect mine, and somewhat selfishly I don’t want that to be so either. Certain good things in life should remain the same forever. There should be rule about it!!
Dorian brought along one of his stamp albums to show me over lunch today. It was a beautiful leather bound (I think) large album which held the most beautiful stamps of
As is now a ‘tradition’ in our family, we all met up at the cemetery to ‘visit with’ our loved ones who have passed away– Aunty Beryl and Uncle Jewel. There was Aunt Joan, Dulcie, Aunt Lotus, Kumar, so many people. During the Mass we remembered the others whose graves we couldn’t visit, our Grandparents and Uncle Hillary in Nuwara Eliya and Aunty Hope in Mt Lavinia.
Ravi and his family clustered around Uncle Jewel’s grave placing flowers and candles not only at his graveside but on all the surrounding graves too – “Dadda’s friends” he said in his typical Ravi manner.
After Mass, with the rains still holding off, we wandered into the dusk to light candles at the gravesides. The cemetery looked peaceful and beautiful with candles casting loving glows upon the graves. Sunethra and Dad both had loads of candles left over, so we lit a few candles at graves where no-one seemed to have visited. No flowers lay upon some graves, where the grass grew high, indicating neglect or the lack of anyone to care for them.
Eternal rest grant unto them O Lord and let perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in peace. Amen.
