Kurma

Here's a couple of shots of my son Nitai's birthday.

Nine years ago Nityananda Rama (Nitai) was born in a chilly maternity hospital in Vrindavan, India. We celebrated that day on the weekend with a small get-together with some of his friends, cousins and other relatives.

My elder son Caitanya (below), aged 20, is in Jagannatha Puri at the moment, a sacred seaside city on India's eastern coast. He is having a ball, catching up with old friends from his seven-year sojourn at Indian gurukulas (boarding schools).

My daughter Joelene, 26, is in Sydney, poised to give birth to her second child.

Time rolls on. I'm feeling rather old.

I've had some good response from my last posting on this subject. There's a whole book of last words in my collection, called, appropriately, "Famous Last Words", compiled by Jonathon Green.

Here's a juicy one:

"I desire to go to hell and not to heaven. In the former place I shall enjoy in the company of popes, kings and princes, while in the latter are only beggars, monks and apostles".

- Niccolo Machiavelli, Florentine political theorist, died 1530.