Last week we walked at Rattray Marsh. It was a good preparation for the book for December 2025, A Walk in the Park by Kevin Fedarko.

Reading Diary- Kariya Park 2025 Nov

Went to Kariya Park-Mississauga and made notings of seven elements of Mindfulness and also looked at the diary which I have been keeping with my sons-Sagar and Sahil from Malta days-2010-2012.

Geological Time and Walks 

My first experience of walking in childhood in Sahyadris which are volcanic in origin and around 60 million years old. In the Mumbai days, children joined the Natural History society and we used to go for walks to Sanjay Gandhi National Park- Goregaon area.

7 Points of Mindfulness Exercise

Seven Points of Mindfulness Exercise

1- Sights

2-Sounds

3-Smell

4- Taste

5- Touch

6-Time

7- Mind

Eg

1- Sights      of waves in the pond at Kariya Park

2-Sounds     of geese and breeze near pond

3-Smell        scent of pond early winter

4- Taste       tea in morning

5- Touch      cold bench in park

6-Time        Geological Time-through Readings of Fedarko book

7- Mind       Metta Meditation-May all the persons coming to this Park

                   Be safe, happy and at ease

                   May all the persons of the book club by safe, happy and at ease

                   May all the persons of the Natural History Society-Goregaon -Mumbai be safe

                   Happy and at ease

             Gratitude- for the persons who maintain this park.

Earlier Perspectives

Remembering walks in 1970s-Pune- Sahyadris

Ophir to Bassein-Reading discussions-2018

Worksheet for Metta Meditation- Living Kindness