Saint
John, New Brunswick
Stranded
Due to
nasty weather conditions, Nakula and I were grounded in his apartment for the
entire day. Strong winds blowing snow, and
then ice pellets, made it impassible and impossible to take those legs out on
the street. Outside Nakula's place you
have this inhibitive hump of glossy ice.
Anyway, enough of all this winter blues.
How do others deal with this dynamic?
Some people don't go anywhere. Some
shops did not open up. That is a real
storm. How our northern people handled
these severe challenges, I don't know.
All flights were cancelled today—all of them. My earliest get away is Friday morning.
Fortunately
at the St. John Airport, I met Anurag from Toronto. It pays off to have friends in different
places. Anurag, now a banker, was
formerly one of those little devotional spirits at the temple and sangha programs. Kindly, he booked me a room for the
night. Thank you! God be with you!
It was Roy
Flowers, 75, a local cab driver, who took us to a downtown hotel. Roy appears to be a natural tour guide. He said a bit about himself and mentioned
he's related to the famous, "Buffalo Bill," the showman who put on
all these wild western shows with horses, cowboys and Indians.
Cab
drivers, I've found, are often colourful characters like Roy. I do believe that somehow they have a
connection to the Supreme. After all, one
of the most revered drivers of them all is Krishna himself, known as partha-sarati, which means the chariot driver of friend, Arjuna. Come to think of it, Krishna may also have a
bond with Buffalo Bill. Long before
Buffalo Bill hit the stage, Krishna drove on two wheels with four horses in the
front.
May the
Source be with you!
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