I feel for the farmers, who are waiting for respite from rain to sow their seeds! I met the farmer, who owns their farm on way to work, who was waiting for his field to be ploughed to sow the seeds. But the rain is delaying it!
When I came back home, I received the news that the boundary wall that is being built broke down in the rain! This wall had fallen in the August rainfall. Now when it is being rebuilt, it got damaged again.
On returning from the site, I watched a solitary White Ibis at the other end of the stream waiting for its catch of fish! These water birds come to places which was inundated recently! This was the firs migrant bird of the season in our village that I spotted!
So for some heavy rain is not a welcome experience, but for the waterbirds the more is the rain, the merrier are they!
So there is always something good in nature and in our experiences!
It is necessary to turn our attention to the good things that are around us!
As I was climbing the steps to reach home, I met our neighbour, who supplies milk to us everyday with a head load of grass for the cows. He talked delightfully about the thick growth of grass after the recent rains. It has made it easy for him to find grass each day for the cows. As they feed now on fresh grass, they produce more milk according to him. But the bunch of banana over the grass was from an uprooted plant, during the recent rain!
The masons who are building the wall came this morning to express their regret about the collapsed wall! To me that was more than a goodwill of thoughtfulness!
To tune into the good things that happen around is one way of the ways of staying centred! The difficulties are occasions for reflection and pondering!
M.C.Mathew(text and Photo)
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