Potomac, Maryland
Contributing Something
I had been asked by organizers of these ISKCON Leaders Meetings to begin the two sessions of each day with warm-up exercises, both vocal and physical. It worked out marvellously for me, because I felt like I was contributing something. What I offered was much like what I do for theatre arts workshops, or what we do for warm-up exercises before we get into the play practices that I conduct.
This is not what I do in the higher echelons of our mission. Our twice a year meetings for the Governing Body Commissioners, are much more serious in their approach. Participants are mainly of the senior calibre, on the average. I was just happy to be able to serve in this group so well, by usually initiating the meetings with kirtan, and often being asked to do a reading from an excerpt of sastra (scripture), just to set the right mood.
For our break-time, after lunch, which was vegan, a group of us arranged for vehicles to be driven to the Great Falls by the Potomac River. About fifteen of us loaded into those vehicles to make it to a nature's wonder. My guess is that it took a one kilometre walk to get to the most compelling section of the river. An old canal built two centuries back was under renovation. Canals, also a fascination for me, are a display of man's engineering power. So you have the power of water and the power of man to put you in awe. https://www.instagram.com/p/B7M-pPsAuBE/?igshid=10um9z7i032s0
The meetings are interactive, stimulating and fun. To put a fragmental bit of additional fun to our Saturday night, Pyari Mohan, executed an entertaining magic show, preceded by Kalakantha's laugh-at-yourself band, "Blind Uncle”. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWgForS32hu8ri0Ccmi91nA
May the Source be with you!
4 km
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