Powerful Things
Edmonton Alberta
Alberta got clobbered last night not as in “ beatin’ in a hockey game” . No! The province received a deluge of snow. It is a special privilege to live in the stormy North where this most white of all white substance sometimes comes sideways. It’s an opportunity for service.
I decided to dawn pants to shovel out the stuff which was blocking the entrance to the Radha Govinda centre. It felt good clearing the powdery substance like doing away with heaps of karma.
Snow is invigorating to be in as you trudge through fresh fall of it you hear the crunching sound under your feet if the word clean has a sound then that might be it.
Snow flows down speed but hey we all need to slow down anyway the world moves too fast. Snow imposes upon us a reduction in speed weather pedestrian or motorist. It seems to teach us patience. As a high wind that delivers the snow also seems to reduce speed. As powerful as the magpie flies even he cannot perfectly steer through the high velocity of the wind force. One magpie whizzed by me and almost got brushed away by the power of the wind. He seemed to thrive on that though .
Despite nasty weather conditions twenty people came to the centre in the evening I engaged them in group memorization of verse 10:20 from Bhagavad-Gita. We discussed the verse and then enjoyed prasadam (blessed food). Cooks here tend to go overboard on the powerful chilies; nothing to do with trying to combat the cold. It’s purely out of habit.
Interesting!
I start the day with snow and I end up with a bunch of chilies.
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