Right where you are sitting – Exploration 1

There are only windows behind my desk. I normally leave the one to my right open and forget about it completely, until it is time in the evening to close it. I typically come and sit down and then start working without thinking about what is happening. As I sat on my chair today, to explore the world, starting with right where I am sitting, to write what I hadn’t noticed when I sat down, I heard a bird from the back, chirping incessantly without a break. I wonder what it was chattering nonstop like this – why was it doing so?

I looked up from my desk. We have second desk in my room. I have help a German desk calendar there – it reminds me of Germany each time. While it is a pleasure for me to change the leaf, I forget it most days and miss some of the most beautiful photos. I notice that I have again forgotten to turn the day after the day before – it is still 27-th September. I get up, walk to the desk and check 28-th page. It is beautiful early morning landscape. I love it, it takes me back to the holiday exactly a year before in Switzerland at Katty’s holiday home. It is the landscape of Meersburg. I turn the page again. It is the larger than life sculpture of a locust from the Insect hall of the Senckenberg Naturmuseum in Frankfurt titles Horror of the Nature. Appropriate for this year, I think and turn the page back to Meersburg.

Talking about insects, it is not like shun all different insects. As M and I are drinking a lot of tea these days rather than cold drinks, we run out of tea mugs. Today, I gave permission to pick up the ones that I normally protect. As I looked around, I noticed that I picked up one of my favorite Good Earth cups to drink my “Chukku Kaapi” or ginger coffee.

My latest test for whether I have COVID or not sits at my desk. Smell and taste are some concrete tests. Once in a while I just pick it up and see whether I am able to smell the chemicals. I have forgotten to check it today.

I have actually been reading more and more on my kindle. The last few days I could not find it to continue reading the EOS book, Traction. Exploring is a good way to also find lost devices.

Not looking around has a side effect. You do not realize how much your little pets are sitting still and the lack of travel and attention is pushing them into a relic status. It should be time to give some attention.

The SAP Pencil was a highly sought out souvenir for Indian colleagues who travelled to Germany in early 2000s. Somewhere along the way, SAP decided not to have them anymore. It was great to find out peeping out asking me to draw it out.

and with that, I run out of things I had not noticed when I sat down. What are the 10 things that you see where you are sitting right now, and you had not noticed before?