Here are a few things I am grateful for today:
1. Papa is well.
2. Went to A's place to check on her because she was unwell. But we planned the children's birthdays instead and I had pizza. That was lovely!
3. I thought of taking her some attars as well. The Ajmal store on Linking Road is a happy place. Yes, the attendants are mostly young men who would rather be chilling in a cave than be selling stuff (which is the attitude of all salespeople in the shops in Linking Road now). But the cloud of scents is awesome. A customer tried out a scent called Raindrops and I immediate wanted to befriend her and tell her that my birthday is coming up.
4. I wore a fluffy snow white cotton dress from Zara. So comfortable!
5. Came across this poem and I think it's just lovely:
Before the Big Bang
there was no up
there was no down
there was no side to side
there was no light
there was no dark
nor shape of any kind
there were no stars or planet Mars
or protons to collide
there was no up
there was no down
there was no side to side
and furthermore to underscore this total lacking state
there was no here
there was no there
because there was no space
and in this endless void which can’t be thought of as a place
there was no time
and so no passing minutes, hours, days
of all the paradoxes
that belabour common sense
I think this one’s the greatest
this time before events
because how did we go from nothing
to infinitely dense?
from immeasurably small
to inconceivably immense?
but before we get unmoored from the question at the start
let’s take a breath and marvel
at when math becomes an art
because we don’t have to understand it
to know there was a time
when there was no up
there was no down
there was no side to side
~ Reina del Cid
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