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incandescensI think my expectations for Christmas have donned blinders so that I don't spend all the time thinking about it. My mind twitches away from "what I may get" or "how others may react", and tries to concentrate on daily jobs and things to do.
Like scrubbing out the bath.
I know, I know, that if my favorite characters from fiction, or my most admired heroes from reality, or even my friends on vacation from America or Canada or wherever, should happen to turn up at my front door unexpectedly, I would end up going down to greet them with my hands stinking of disinfectant and the bath still unfinished. (Do I say bath? No, bath being unfinished would be the good option, when one considers what else is in the same room and requires scrubbing . . .)
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The Rudras of destruction, the Vasus of fire, the Sadhyas of prayers, the Adityas of the sun; the lesser gods Visve-Devas, the two Asvins charioteers of heaven, the Maruts of winds and storms, the Ushmapas spirits of ancestors; the celestial choirs of Gandharvas, the Yakshas keepers of wealth, the demons of hell and the Siddhas who on earth reached perfection: they all behold thee with awe and wonder.
Krishna's Dialogue on the Soul
Like scrubbing out the bath.
I know, I know, that if my favorite characters from fiction, or my most admired heroes from reality, or even my friends on vacation from America or Canada or wherever, should happen to turn up at my front door unexpectedly, I would end up going down to greet them with my hands stinking of disinfectant and the bath still unfinished. (Do I say bath? No, bath being unfinished would be the good option, when one considers what else is in the same room and requires scrubbing . . .)
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The Rudras of destruction, the Vasus of fire, the Sadhyas of prayers, the Adityas of the sun; the lesser gods Visve-Devas, the two Asvins charioteers of heaven, the Maruts of winds and storms, the Ushmapas spirits of ancestors; the celestial choirs of Gandharvas, the Yakshas keepers of wealth, the demons of hell and the Siddhas who on earth reached perfection: they all behold thee with awe and wonder.
Krishna's Dialogue on the Soul
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Date: 2003-12-14 11:10 pm (UTC)