Kurma

My sister has been blitzing me with old family photos, freshly scanned by her daughter Lan-tien.

This photo has a special significance for me. Apart from having never seen it (!) it was taken the month I first met the Krishna devotees - September 1970. I was seventeen and had started to visit the tiny store-front temple in Oxford Street Paddington.

I tasted the wonderful sanctified temple food (prasadam) for the first time, and was hooked. I started chanting the Hare Krishna mantra on big green wooden beads that my friend Mark and I bought in a 'Head Shop' in Kings Cross.

I'd pick frangipani flowers from the tree in our front yard and take them to the temple as an offering.

Sweet memories indeed!

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