North York, Ontario
One Party Spoiled
They say two million people attended the big party today at Toronto’s Nathan Philips Square and the parade route along the Lakeshore. That’s huge. People were having a good time honouring the champion basketball team, the Raptors.
Unfortunately, there were three or four who came to spoil the party, leaving four people injured in a shooting, and others injured in a stabbing. Not much is known about the offenders as I write this, but arrests were made. We’ll hear more, I’m sure. Just 3.2 kilometres north of the senseless tragedy, is our ashram. I had every intention of staying away from the congestion even before hearing of the injuries. ( I wish quick recovery for the victims.) https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/raptors-parade-stabbing-suspect-images-1.5181040
The intent today, or rather, for tonight, was to visit some annual donors for our big (not Raptor big) Festival of Chariots. That was cancelled out. Our donors warned us, “Please don’t come out tonight. There’s too many shootings.”
The alternative was to go north to Shepherd in North York. One of our girls, Lila Mayi, pre-arranged for a kirtan in Avondale Park. Jai and I went via subway. I was tired. We were late. The kirtan had begun. We could hear it. We dashed over and plopped ourselves down on the grass and joined in.
The response was magnificent. People came down from the highrises all around , curious about our sound.
What an assortment of demographics! You have people from China, India, the Middle East, Russia etc. , all living around here as one happy family. It sure felt like that!
May the Source be with you!
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