Bonjour - It's Coffee Time

Bonjour   -    It’s   Coffee Time

      

                   

Good Morning….…..  Wake up …………… It’s Coffee Time..!!

Bonjour is a French word meaning “Good day”.

The Cockerel in the native land announces that it is Good Morning  - the time tested wakeup call still lingers in your memory - even as the city life denies that alert button of good morning from the domesticated cock.

You can see the sun rise from a closer angle in this writer’s native town.  I am prompted to do a post about my daily routine that used to be. The freshness of morning with the purified air and the due settled on the grass and flowers, the nature has something more to offer there.  The fragrance of the exotic colorful flowers in your courtyard garden is highly stimulating. The sun rays peeping through the coconut leaves or from the hills is a pleasant scenario and it caresses your body to make a healthier appeal, the Vitamin ‘D’ effect. The Sun, in the open sky, in shining armor smiles at you in this beautiful morning.

The Cow moo-moo’s in the morning, and the milker gives fodder to the cow and start milking its udder is a rare sight.

The “Suprabhatham” chants from the nearby Hindu temple was always endearing in those good old days.

The Murphy radio makes you to listen to the light songs from the radio station of your choice. It may be a morning lesson in classical music.

In the city life your lovely wife wakes you up with the bed coffee.

 

As a routine, I search for the newspaper before attending to the other morning chorus.  The morning raga is never complete without scanning for the news items.

After a refreshing and rejuvenating bath gets into well creased and ironed clothes before setting off to attend the official duty.  Knowing fully well that well-shined shoes are an essential accessory to any sharp outfit, and will make a good impression when you walk into a room, my hands will reach out for shoe shine shampoo.

The lovely mornings offer you another day in this world for you to conquer and meet the challenges of daily life.  The special mornings are stepping stones to make a difference in your life.  When you set out of the home, wife sees you off with a pleasing smile by saying “Have a nice day”. 

The moment you step into your office, the security guard greets you with “Good Morning Saheb” or “Good Morning Sir”.  You enter the office with a fixed smile on your face, and wishing your colleagues Good Morning.

At the office desk you settle down by offering a prayer “Hail Mary” and quickly go through the top flagged mails in your laptop computer.  Your Diary notes for the day and prioritizing the tasks being the next step.  Scribble important tasks on the colorful post it and pin it up at your work station soft board. By the time, you can see the office boy at your desk with a Cup of Coffee to re-energize and stimulate your daily routine.  

Rest of the day in the office is spent excelling in your work as nothing left desired.

When we discuss about morning, it prompts me to think and reflect about the sun who gives you the light.

Sun is personified in many mythologies, the Greek called Sun as “Helios” and the Romans “Sol”.

The enormous effect of the Sun on the Earth has been recognized since prehistoric times, and the Sun has been regarded as a deity.  The Sun temple in Konark is famous.   Konark Sun Temple is a 13^th Century Sun Temple at Konark, Odisha, in India.  Hindu devotees worship Sun as god.

The Sun is by farthest the largest object in the solar system.  It contains more than 99.8% of the total mass of the solar system (Jupiter contains most of the others).

Earth’s movement around the sun is the basis of solar calendar, which is the predominant calendar in use today.

Sun is at present 70% Hydrogen, 28% Helium and the remaining 2% Metals.  The Sun is the star at the center of solar system.  The nine planets in the solar system are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.

To continue with the daily routine, Sunday morning is special because it reminds you that your spiritual needs have to be taken care of by attending a Sunday mass in the Church or a visit to the Temple of your deity for the Hindu brethren. The much fancied afternoon siesta on a Sunday, you deliberately avoid and finds time to read or write and listening to music.  The Sundays are always a special day not only because it is a national holiday but also being a Christian it has an added meaning.

The parish council meetings on a Sunday occupies a major share of your time  and the plans to celebrate parish day feast preoccupy your thoughts.

The Saturday morning is generally lazy ……you enjoy a longer sleep before finally get out of the bed.  A routine upset for sure on a week-end morning.  The day will be different by a visit to a nearby mall which you enjoy by driving your family there to watch a movie, do some shopping and to dine in a swanky restaurant in the evening.  The family gets your share of care and attention during the weekends as compared to the busy schedule during the week days.

The weekends are the time when you meet your friends especially the family friends.  It reminds you that you are a social animal and there are social obligations in your life which merits your attention.  You may visit an ailing old family friend in the nursing home or a hospital during the weekend.

Love is a feeling in the heart that completes the soul.

Have a beautiful day.

Finally, I would like to post few more lines about the Sun.

The Apex of the Sun’s way, or the solar apex, is the direction that sun travels through the space in the Milky Way, relative to the nearby stars.

The Sun, as seen from low earth orbit looking into the International Space Station. 

This Sunlight is not filtered by the lower atmosphere, which blocks much of the solar spectrum.

In 1666, Sir Isaac Newton observed the Sun’s light by using a prism, and showed that it was made up of light of many colors.    In 1672, Newton investigated the refraction of light demonstrating that the multi colored spectrum produced by a Prism could be recomposed into white light by a lens and second prism.

Contrary to the popular misconception, the Sun is white rather than yellow when viewed from space or sufficiently high in the sky and thus prove the Newton’s theory.  The writer have seen the Sun from Bali (Indonesia), Batur heights of about 2063 meter to scale up and experienced the white rising sun in the earliest morning hours.  To conquer the Bali heights and capture the Sun in all majestic glory is a fantastic and thrilling experience and is an amazing awesome sight.  You feel that a mission accomplished when you are on top of the challenging heights.  The view from there is a life time experience.  You sit on a cliff’s edge dangling your legs down and there lies the mountain valley in its vertical horrifying depth. A glance down gives a spine chilling experience for your adrenaline rush with your heart pounding in your mouth.

The life and time finds you in a peaceful and happy existence.  The 24x7 is well spend to turn the calendar of months and years.

In pursuit of a creative existence, with hope and dreams, your days passes with passion for excellence.

Don’t worry about the past.  Live in the present and avoid the anxiety about the future.

Bonjour - Have a nice day…..!!