October 3. “Hello Button. Are you asleep?
No, it’s not morning yet. It’s night and I’m in the room beside yours to check my email. Want to join me?”
October 2. A kite perches outside our apartment on the 24th floor almost every morning around the same time I enter the study and screeches to his heart’s content.
“Do you hear that kite, Button?”
“His name is Fluffy and he’s a friend. We became friends after he saw me waving out to him some time back before these windows were boarded up and I could look outside.”
September 30. I haven’t a clue why I am so tender towards Button.
I put him on a different pedestal this morning and saw him smiling from ear to ear.
“What makes you so happy this morning, Button?”
October 1. Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays are days when both my husband and I do yoga.
I entered the study to switch on the air conditioner and found Button wide awake.
“Are you okay, Button?”
September 29. I entered Button’s room (it’s really become Button’s room) singing-
“My Button lies over the ocean, My Button lies over the sea, My Button lies over the ocean, Oh bring back my Button to me…”
September 28. “Good morning, Button. How are you this morning?”
“Good. And you?”
“I’m doing fine. Today is Dasshera and everybody’s going to be at home.
September 27. “Today is the 9th day of Navratri.
Tomorrow is the day when Goddess Durga will be immersed and Durga Puja will end?”
“I know. I also hope the immersions go off smoothly and there are no mishaps.
September 26. “Button, remember the rats in the study especially in the room you now occupy?
That must have been very scary, unpleasant and disgusting!”
“Not at all. In fact there were 3 of them and I made friends with all three.
September 25. “How is it that you are here an hour earlier than usual?
Were you missing me?”
“I miss you all the time, Button, and you must believe me. I wish I could take you along with me everywhere. Do you like the name Button?”
September 24. Make the world a little younger, bring the laughter in…
Yesterday was full of magic
Bring it back again…
“You seem very happy!”