18 October 2021
Dear Sushila
I'm glad you went out to buy yourself some new jewelry. You look good in the photo, although a bit thin. Eat more Sushila, and remember, once a Beauty Queen, always a Beauty Queen!
Do take care of your health and live happy each day. There's nothing much to worry about now. We have done our part in terms of career and motherhood. So it's our time to relax and enjoy the fruits of our labor. Do what pleases you. Do what makes you happy.
Being retired is to love idleness. For me, I love to busy myself about trifles; to begin a number of scrap-booking projects and not finish one of them; to come and go as my fancy bids me; to fritter away the whole day insignificantly and incoherently, and to follow nothing but the whim of the moment (quote from a wise sage).
Well that pretty much sums up how I pass my time. I take long walks each morning along the riverside and love to watch the white-breasted waterhens go about their morning routine. Such agile birds with thin legs and long toes, walking gingerly on stems of long grass and along the riverbed. They are usually in pairs and if I am lucky, I get to see a family with one or two black chicks. They have to be careful because there are big monitor lizards around but they know how to defend themselves. I am fascinated by their behaviors, how the baby chicks know where to hide under the river grass, how the mother bird would peck at the tail of the monitor lizard to chase it away! The mother bird is the matriarch of the family and if the father bird brings in some food, she will force it out of him, and take it to her chicks! Haha!
With affection
Sylvia
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