with Sri Ganesh

... After many days the elder comes in late and offers Rs. 10/-...

- 04-04-12:

... The politician comes today also, offers his customary Rs. 50/-. Later, AV Ganesh comes in with two relatives, one of whom is an elderly widow (perhaps his mother, I do not know) and they pray and offer Rs. 50/-.

Sri Ganesh, Dearly you hold

Agni in your breast, Tranquil and Strong And constant, You stand ready To feed The adjoining fires For the clearance Of the Way –

Unassuming is your presence Today, Sri Ganesh, Yet complete and brimming With calm Tenderness...

- 05-04-12:

... To help matters with my various aches and wounds, as I move to connect the hose-pipe to the tank valve, I step right on a big fat black rusty nail which was just waiting there between the pebbles... and it goes deep into my bare heel... I guess it was dropped there by whoever it was who came in the other night and stole what he could find in the storage space under the tank... But it is a little confounding: where is the “enemy”, this force which with such precision makes use of my own movements to “attack”...?

Sri Ganesh Like an Ode to the One You have composed The offerings,

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