Tuesday,
March 21st, 2017
Russell,
Ontario
Spring
Signs of
spring. It may have been the last blast
of real winter which came
in a few days ago, leaving remnants of snow piles in this area, but clearly the thaw is on. Rivulets of water flow as the result of a
major melt. Snow, ice and water are
three stages of one element and that’s what you see.
In Barrhaven,
a suburb of Ottawa, where our sanga
program was to be held, I witnessed nature’s power of the water-flow running under those piles—piles
ready to collapse. Every day, nature seems to take on a new form
of it’s own.
In Barrhaven, at the home of Surrender and
family, I had a captive audience of adults.
It was in the morning that I had a less captive audience of
pre-schoolers. Basically, they are Krishna kids at school in
Russell. I should say for these young
whipper-snappers, I had to work very hard to gain their attention while reading
about Krishna and the cowherd boys, His boys.
It required animation and implementing songs. The teachers gave me informal words of
praise. Had I not become a swami,
perhaps my vocation would have been that of a school teacher.
Now, for
walking, today I took to somewhat of a frisky pacing in the new community
centre, the old Registration Building with its 2500 square feet of
expanse. Nice structure. In 1915 a major fire ripped through this town
and practically flattened everything except this building. It’s solid, for sure, and it’s now being used
for devotion.
May the
Source be with you!
4 km
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