{"id":922,"date":"2008-10-29T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T15:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2008\/10\/29\/tuesday-night-diwali\/"},"modified":"2008-10-29T11:55:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T15:55:00","slug":"tuesday-night-diwali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2008\/10\/29\/tuesday-night-diwali\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday night &#8211; Diwali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"pBlogBody_444675304\" class=\"blogContent\">\n<center><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">Happy Diwali folks.. Tonight is Diwali, the Hindu&nbsp; festival of lights..&nbsp;&nbsp; It commemorates when Lord Ram defeats the evil Ravana.it&#8217;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..<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;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&#8217;s a good night to be stuck. It included soem traditional Diwali celibrations..&nbsp; Including sand painting<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/oct2808\/oct2808013.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/oct2808\/oct2808017.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/oct2808\/oct2808014.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/oct2808\/oct2808019.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/oct2808\/oct2808026.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/oct2808\/oct2808021.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/oct2808\/oct2808027.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">Ansd a faily prayer ceremony or puja&#8230; <\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/oct2808\/oct2808034.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/oct2808\/oct2808029.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/oct2808\/oct2808036.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/oct2808\/oct2808039.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/oct2808\/oct2808040.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/oct2808\/oct2808049.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">Delicious hoemade sweets.. then a wonderful dinner.. Here&#8217;s&nbsp; Isha.. showing a bhindi (okra) next to her bindi (red dot on forehead).. I dunno.. seemed cool to me.. <\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/oct2808\/oct2808053.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">Finally fireworks inside !.. All part of the Diwali tradition&#8230;<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/oct2808\/oct2808057.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/oct2808\/oct2808059.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">Lights outside too !<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/oct2808\/oct2808067.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">Hope all have a good and peceful Diwali.. I&#8217;m going to get some much needed sleep !<br \/>Ashanti all.. Ashanti Sam..<br \/>-me<\/p>\n<p>ps.. Here&#8217;s another very wierd visual pun\/concidence.. Duing my (excelelnt) metings today I ran into many. many friends. One was Audrey&#8230; 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&#8217;t resist the photo..I give you.. . Audrey Heperin&#8230;&nbsp; (ugh !) <\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/oct2808\/oct2808002.jpg\" \/><br \/><\/center>\n<\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Diwali folks.. Tonight is Diwali, the Hindu&nbsp; festival of lights..&nbsp;&nbsp; It commemorates when Lord Ram defeats the evil Ravana.it&#8217;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.. 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