Happy Diwali folks.. Tonight is Diwali, the Hindu  festival of lights..   It commemorates when Lord Ram defeats the evil Ravana.it’s a magical story with fyling arrows, spinning fish , banishment to the forest, goldent deers, rings of fire, flying monkey kings and magic birds. I know this because Isha told me the whole story..

I’m lucky enough to be stuck here at the Ruchir and Rashis by the bad weather.. I was on my way up to VT from Yorktonw when the bad weather and lack of sleep made me decide to stop here for the night. It’s a good night to be stuck. It included soem traditional Diwali celibrations..  Including sand painting

Ansd a faily prayer ceremony or puja…

Delicious hoemade sweets.. then a wonderful dinner.. Here’s  Isha.. showing a bhindi (okra) next to her bindi (red dot on forehead).. I dunno.. seemed cool to me..

Finally fireworks inside !.. All part of the Diwali tradition…

Lights outside too !

Hope all have a good and peceful Diwali.. I’m going to get some much needed sleep !
Ashanti all.. Ashanti Sam..
-me

ps.. Here’s another very wierd visual pun/concidence.. Duing my (excelelnt) metings today I ran into many. many friends. One was Audrey… as I passed her.. I realized that I had a used syringe of Heperin, an anticoagullant , in my pocket.. My sister hashad given me the used (and needleless) syringe to use for a scince experiment.. Somehwo I couldn’t resist the photo..I give you.. . Audrey Heperin…  (ugh !)