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Tag: puja
Lucie’s death anniversary.
We remembered MAnjula and Lucie today in the field where we buried Lucie.
Wonderful that guests Maïlis (who was there helping support Lucie on her last day) and Maria and Ani were with us.
Also our loyal team members Satish, Akram and all put together by Sowbaghya.
And then there were dogs waiting to pounce …
Umesh has set it up as
Bow Wow pet resort and cemetery
a place for dogs to go holiday while we go on ours … plus somewhere to bury our pets, and a final resting place for dogs found on the roadside.
ayudha puja
It’s the ninth day of the ten day Dasara festival, the biggest event in Mysore’s calendar.
Today we follow a hallowed tradition of asking the goddess to bless our weapons for battles over the next year.
Nowadays we put forward our tools, mainly our vehicles.
So after a fair amount of faffing about (careful preparation) we do the required Pūjā.
We had a team of two knowledgeables namely Sowbhagya and Kaveri.
The ‘has-been’ well he’s always been a spare part.
But I’m — Not the only one getting lost.
Big surprise today. The red peril, her highness ‘the radical’ enjoyed her first flyover.
Lucie
Lucie departed on Sunday 26th January
That afternoon we buried her in a lovely field
Today we returned to do 11th day puja to help her spirit find its new home
Then lunch back at home
It’s very sad to lose such a wonderful friend, I miss her—-
—-being at home when I return, going on walks together and just being in my life.
Billet-Doux also misses Lucie
She’s such a famous dog with everyone asking about her.
Important Rituals and fun things.
October update.
We have our fair share of things we do … at Mysore Bed and Breakfast.
Here we commemorate MAnjula and help her spirit find its new body.
Support Kaveri in Manjula’s name and share her sunshine
Go cycling with our guests
Ask the goddess to make our ‘tools’ work for the next year
“There are some people who have sun inside them.
It’s hard to explain.
Their presence just brightens, it’s not about their beautiful smiles.
They have an internal being that sheds light and feels like sun.
It’s a calm energy. Inner peace.
But most importantly; it’s not wanting anything back in return.
It’s sun.”
— Unknown 🎀
As is this …..
We even invented a sun cake.
Asking for help with our tools.
SB came to do Ayudha puja to ask the goddess to look after our tools and help them perform for the next year
Next day is the final event of the annual celebration of the goddess killing the demon, after which our fair city is named!
That’s a stay home and avoid the crowds day.
Gowri-Ganesh-Chaturthi
Each year MAnjula would carefully prepare puja for Ganesh and his mother Gowri
Ganesh in 2015 the version on the left was taken to be immersed in the river Kaveri later that week.
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This year I was invited to Kaveri’s school to join the celebrations.
Afterwards we did our own thing at home
Next we’ll work out which day we can immerse him in the river.
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Kaveri becoming a sharp English teenager.
… Whatever…
She’s always with us
Who’s taken them?
We have a pomegranate thief.
Just as they ripen on the branch someone comes and steals them.
We don’t believe anyone is taking them from our side of the wall or that it’s anyone that works here or relatives of the owner that live on the roof.
No strangers have entered our property. We do have CCTV.
They are however easily reachable from the neighbours path.
It’s a recurring theme. People help themselves to flowers from the public parks. We’ve challenged people with their discreet plastic bags filling them not least from Manjula’s memorial garden.
This morning, Sowbhaghya came across one of the workers in the park who accosted a little girl who was collecting flowers for Pooja. she shouldn’t.
A lesson for Kaveri to learn.
The day itself.
The third death anniversary of Manjula. We try to do all the right things.
nows? Maybe she’s already found her next body but We play safe and do the ceremonies in case she hasn’t
Ina the Scottish Australian who became a great friend of ours and especially Manjula calls and arranges to visit later in the year.
I have another bright idea, I might regret it.
The evening before
Smileys appear on our street.
I’m reminded of how I’d felt the need to protect my broken heart — like this one in a bottle — while looking around me at the images of my beautiful MAnjula which trigger happy joyful memories of our wonderful but short time together.
Tomorrow we’ll share a meal with MAnjula and a few close friends.
Me and MYCycle 