do you know - or DID you know ?

 knowing is NOT linear (from 0 to 100) ... it is more circular (0 to 360 degree) .. like many things seemingly "straight" are "curvy" .. if you know too much, do you end up getting results of as if you know nothing?

i recently was returning back home .. and at airport, picked up a cab .. when the guy started taking little different route, i showed some doubts - so, he asked to put on GPS .. and i thought i know my way home from our local airport well enough ... the map showed something different at one point midway and i said ignore it and take my "usual" route - he did unwillingly agree to - and then we were stuck enroute with some special weekend construction closures - which i did not (of course) know of :(

i thought i know the route - but it should be past tense "i knew" the route from airport to my home (as it was yesterday) - today, is a  new day with new possibilities - because i think i know "enough" i ignore new info (and willingness to openly accept different possibilities) 

:-)

[many things in life turn out to be - different from what they appeared at first look ... and hence earth seems flat on cursory observation - but then when we humans knew more we (not all!) have agreed on the concept it being a globe/sphere]

[OLD Draft - NOW published on 1st Aug]

river 🌊

 got to try painting on a parking lot ... designed by local GTA artist Yen Linh Thai (@yenlinh.thai) ... part of a giant community-based mural at 8 80 TowerPOPS Cooksville site during https://www.addevent.com/event/wl5g7kz897lr event 🌊

overlock vs interlock

 didn't know there is something called "overlock" before I got to try sewing machine  as part of https://www.mississauga.ca/library/using-the-library/makerspaces/ at https://www.mississauga.ca/library/locations/hazel-mccallion-central-library/

tech and other enablers for enterprise - peda

20 Aug 2025

based on true story ..

it was peak of monsoon season in bhaaratam .. every year, heavy downpour usually disrupts major city of mumbai at least for a day or two - which is otherwise called 24x7 non-stop (unstoppable) maximum city .. our flights were booked from Mumbai airport in such a time (one cannot predict the exact day when such situation will align and hence you hope for best) .. plus we 3 had to travel by train from amdavaad to Mumbai for our international flights .. We got to experience Tejas express in the process .. Just a day or two ago, our son asked a friend - what they want from bhaaratam .. and in response he received a specific image - of what they had liked from the past .. specific "kutchi peda" from some shop (not a chain) .. he casually thought of ignoring such request which was equivalent to try and "find a needle in the haystack" :-D

but i felt little more adventurous .. having some time (and network connectivity) on hand - i gave the image to google .. and it searched up a shop which was far off (maybe somewhere in "bhuj" or "mundra" - a city far off in further west from amdavaad) .. i could also find a phone number and gave it a try as long shot .. the guy mentioned it is far off from amdavaad - and we did not have enough time to try "porter" (app that has become popular in bhaaratam to get things - even across cities) .. but on further probing, i figured out that they do regularly send peda (perishable dessert item) to mumbai .. and have a shop (outlet for retail purchase) there as well ... i became further adventurous and placed order for a packet of kutchi peda from 'bhuj' (or some such far off place) while sitting in amdavaad to be delivered in Mumbai ... the timing of heavy rains all along made it further adventurous .. but finally, while being on long train journey and back and forth calling/texting over a long period - we could finally get perishable food item delivered from some 800+ kms (that too in middle of heavy rain and severe weather condition) in a place where we did not live .. thanks to technology and enterprising people involved .. just to be able to reinforce belief in the saying "where there is a will there is a way - or there are peda" [it is a different story that the package flew several thousand kilometers from mumbai to toronto - via few in between stops - and then reached our son's friend - probably in Ottawa after being stuck in refrigerator for several days]

Beach

 

too hard to guess the airport ✈️?

unlike earlier post this might be tricky 

GRATITUDE

The exercise of GRATITUDE will never fail to strengthen your faith and renew your purpose.

This is the last sentence of Chapter 13 (Getting into the Right Business) of "The Science of Getting Rich" by Wallace D. Wattles