Imagine yourself awake at 4 am. Up with the lark so they say. Imagine yourself holding a broom (walis tingting) and a dustpan in front of your house sweeping the street with cigarette butts, candy wrappers, plastic with straws thrown by unscrupulous passersby. Imagine yourself sometimes seeing a whole bag of Jollibee or McDonald’s trash thrown by people in cars just passing by our place. How dare they do this, it pollutes the environment and a sight for sore eyes. But they are undisciplined. One of the reasons why sometimes we get flooded when it rains hard. You can’t help but shake your head in wonder. Don’t they clean the surroundings of their homes? Are they just happy throwing their trash everywhere? It is a case of, “as long as it is not in my backyard, it is okay”. Really!
Nowadays, it’s my daily routine, waking up early, meeting the dawn and the sunrise and sometimes enjoying few precious moments in the garden. I sleep early too. Around 8 pm, I couldn’t get my eyes wide open enough to read a few more chapters. I feel so sleepy. Maybe that’s what’s growing old is all about. The routines are comfortably and necessarily observed and followed in our lives.
I am getting nostalgic again. I think of the younger days trying to recapture those moments of bliss. See what the morning brings? Nostalgia 🙂
“People leave traces of themselves where they feel most comfortable, most worthwhile.”
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Dreams And Escapes 
This last year, I am going to bed earlier, and getting up earlier. But not as early as you, Arlene! 🙂
Fortunately, we have almost no discarded rubbish in Beetley, except around the small playground and football cage. The only things in the streets here are leaves, twigs, and acorns, all fallen from the trees.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Good thing it is not a problem for you Pete. Some people here have no discipline at all.
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I’m sure you’ve seen my occasional rants about people who litter our forest
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Yes, I did Derrick. This was in the open though along a main road.
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I regularly pick up trash in front of our house. I am saddened that people don’t think of others when they do it.
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Yes, they are so inconsiderate.
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