Early Mornings, A Forgotten Era
Early Mornings, a forgotten era... It's been a while since I have been like this, a late sleeper. Each time the oath to wake up early and practise healthy habits has made me fall flat on my face and tummy. Needless to say I do remember few nights where I had hardly slept because of an overdose of coffee and I saw the beauty and peaceful early mornings. In a city it's different, you can hear the world screaming out of bed to rush to their usual livelihood but my recent holiday in Gangtok was breathtaking. Nothing can beat the beauty of hills and forest, their mystery is too precious to me. Still my mother's garden on the 7th floor is my small retreat to nature in a not so forgiving Kolkata city that thrives in pollution. Her love for trees I see now has faded with time and health problems but this garden to me is a reminder of my mother's crusade of making us eat organic home grown food when I was growing up in the late 1980's, it comes from time to ti