by Gayle | May 23, 2021 | India, My Journey, Personal Odyssey
Daily walk down Parikrama Marg Post Office or Daily Needs It’s not always about the destination, but the journey. Almost every day (Sundays are the exception), I head out my door, down the little rocky alleyway and turn left onto Parikrama Marg about 30 feet...
by Gayle | May 20, 2021 | My Journey
Along the Parikrama Marg, Just Over the Railroad Tracks …live our babas in cloth and plastic makesift lean-tos. A popular hang out place for long-term Vrindavan Shaivites. We will occasionaly stop by with fruits and fresh milk for them. They are always...
by Gayle Lawrence | May 13, 2021 | My Journey
Journey to the Mata Lakshmi Temple Belvan, Uttar Pradesh, just outside of Vrindavan Sometimes I don’t know where I’m going until I get there. And even when I get there, I don’t know where I am. But the journey is beautiful and the company serene. Today was such...
by Gayle | Apr 11, 2020 | My Journey, Personal Odyssey
Seema called me and told me I could go outside from 7 am to 11 am to do shopping. She and all the ladies are doing well and send their love! It was like coming up from the netherworld after the zombie apocalypse siege. My eyes unaccustomed to the sun pull their...
by Gayle | Apr 5, 2020 | My Journey, Personal Odyssey
I hear the neighborhood children just past my tall, shards-of-glass covered mega cement wall playing cricket, with shouts and screams and wailings, occasionally punctuated by sharp, staccato reprimands of an adult. (When I hear the wailing, I say a little prayer just...
by Gayle | Apr 2, 2020 | My Journey, Personal Odyssey
India is enforcing the harshest and most extensive COVID-19 lockdown in the world. On March 24, 2020, with just a short four-hour notice, India – all of India – was in lockdown, stay-in-your-house-and-don’t-you-dare-come-out kind of lockdown....
