Russell, Ontario
His Foot
The season’s first serious snowfall came down, white, wet and slushy. Our footwear wasn’t quite adequate for the sidewalk. Jagajivan, Anuttama from Calgary, and I stepped into the Russell music academy and into the ‘Waiting Room’ for shelter. That’s actually a Friday night veggie hangout. Locals were doing a live rendition of the Beach Boys’ “California Girls.” That was quite neat. It was a brief stopover for us.
In reality, I was looking for an opportunity to find a great image to shoot, something that would say tons. Nothing was coming up that I could share. It had been a full day of presentations. They were informative and fulfilling, nevertheless it made us sedentary. Only once did we ask Jagajivan to get us up off our laurels for some stretching. He is our chosen boy as a trainer. That was the best and only stretch for the day.
When we retreated with the Montreal monks to our evening station for sleeping, at Krishna Dulal’s home, I saw a possibility for a pic. It was the pose of his home deity which captured me. The deity goes by the name Natabara, dance master, a name reserved for Krishna. One of the monks, Marshall, held up a light. Click! There it was—Krishna’s leg on a lotus pedestal while the other foot is suspended in the air in dance formation. Beautiful!
May the Source be with you!
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