“Why
are you smiling that way?”
“Summers
must be nearby.” He peered excitedly.
This
elderly couple just came to Kerala and celebrating their wrinkled childhood on
the house boat. They both reclined on the floor trying to grab the waves. They
glanced at the pink-golden haze of sky and lost into nothingness for hours.
Suddenly he snuggled her hand closer and recollected his vague memories.
“But
baba! Why can’t I come with you?”
“Because
they hired me, I’m not the owner of the boat.”
He trembled
with teary happiness “Dear, it took me 40-years to find this happy pearl!”
