Welcome back Mum

No painter's brush, nor poet's pen, in justice to her fame, has ever reached half high enough, to write a mother's name!

-- Anonymous

After an excruciatingly long eleven month absence, Mum is back home in Ooty!

Suddenly there is life amidst us, after a painfully dull mechanical period which at best can be described as a time of despair and glum numbness! Conversations that were hitherto in monosyllables have resumed to be full and meaningful dialogues. There is laughter once again, like old times. It feels like the family is now complete and together having endured long distraught times due to separation!

Utter silence of the past few months has altogether disappeared and there is a sense of relief and cheer as Mum has considerably improved in health and is nearly back to her previous state.

I cannot say enough to thank all those wonderful souls who have worked ceaselessly to ensure that she reaches a state that is marked in difference, in progress! Without such tremendous and overwhelming support we would surely have been cast away into doom and never regained the strength and the courage to lead our lives in fulfillment and happiness once again!

Iconic it is when I say that the sounds I hear today are apart from those of creaking doors and heavy footfalls.