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Saturday, April 25th, 2026 Yorkville, Toronto Within the last two days there was incredible weather change. Such is April. From a snow blizzard of yesterday to the current light rain upon the green grasses, my body adjusts. Mostly I stayed under the shelter of the temple. Annually a group of us come together to discuss how we are doing with our mission. Under the heading ITSO (ISKCON Temples of Southern Ontario) sixteen reps came from the various centres to learn, love and le

Friday, April 24th, 2026 Regina/Saskatoon/Toronto For a change I thought to submit a poem of the past from the book, The Walking Monk Poems .1. Here it is: YOU’RE IN Dull time did pass – no break Something that seemed so hard to shake When out the window a pathetic gloom A day of utter drizzle doom Not even a steamy herbal teacup Could pull the entire spirit up For a grey day veil did suspend there Endorsing a world that’s so unfair When observing the world, it’s most mundan

Thursday, April 23rd, 2026 Regina, Saskatchewan “You will have some physical complications in the future,” said Jagannath as he read my right palm. “Your lines indicate you are good at communication,” is what he concluded with after a quick glance. Jagannath, now 93, has been a palm reader for most of his life. I remember how he would be so popular at the Chariot Fest in both Vancouver and Toronto. Those line-ups were huge. People are curious to know more about themselves, pr

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Ken and I were eager to take a pic of the neatly lined up fallen trees that resembled newly sharpened massive pencils, downed by local beavers, when we detected a challenge. Ken noticed on my dhoti (lower garment) that two tics had clung on. Then he saw the same appearance of the little rascals on his white dhoti. We didn’t exactly panic but we were a bit anxious on the trail we tread. Needless to say, it was a priority to s

Tuesday, April 21st, 2026 Winnipeg/Saskatoon Morning sun speaks saying, “Come on in. Bathe in my splendour!” I listened and so, that’s what I did. So from the corner of Jordan and Roy, where the Iskcon temple exists, I began walking a loop. Through this stroll I walked the edge of a park, went through a middle class residential, a retail shopping strip, back to the residential and to return where I started from. The diversity is fun but what remains consistent throughout, apa

Monday, April 20th 2026 Winnipeg, Manitoba The most inspirational building for me in the whole wide world, after Uncle Tom’s Cabin, is not a palatial building of European architecture or one of those ornate South Indian temples with gods galore sculpted out on its exterior. It is a tiny 200 square foot sod house that one family would live in in the Prairies in the 1800’s. There is such a place, reconstructed, at Ft. Whyte where the buffalo (bison) used to feed and roam. Truly