1. I feel excellent today.

2. Rishi Kapur passed away. He was a big celebrity. RIP.

3. Neighborhood was quiet until it wasn’t quiet. The boy was shouting his throat out. The mom was being reasonable and slightly goading.

4. I asked for a new smartphone. They said this one was a reward for my cleaning the house before Diwali. I cleansed and they gave me a second hand already hacked device with cracks on screen. I didn’t ask for it but now I need a better smartphone to write better. Earlier I used a laptop and used to wonder how someone blogged using smartphone with tiny screens, now, I count the blessings of being able to focus sharper.

5. Sky has some haziness. Not enough to provide solace. Birds and kittens talk to me sometimes. I mingle well with those on night rounds to keep the fort intact and I do it better when I don’t have a smartphone in the pocket of my runners.

6. I asked them– “Do you remember, a banyan tree used to be here, in this complex, pointing to the field nearby?”

“We haven’t been here for that long–was the answer” as expected.

7. I recalled later–mango tree it was. It had given innumerable carries for us as kids, even when we kept pelting stones at it. Now a young Neem tree is dancing in its place.