12/30/11 Rim Rock One of the hardest things a parent can do is send a child away to school, especially a four year old child, yet that’s precisely what Kama Nagari and I did. We sent Vrindavan, our first son, … Continue reading
Category Archives: Canada, 1978
12/13/11 Our first temple was in my home at Warkworth. This was a really bad idea. To mix a public temple with a private home is to put tremendous strain on any family. Every morning at 5 AM about 20 … Continue reading
After sitting and listening to Kanina and Gaudiya, allowing myself to be updated with the recent affairs of ISKCON, the thought ran through my mind that Krishna was giving me an opportunity to do some service and I should seize … Continue reading
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that … Continue reading
“To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.”* Working with people is messy business. Sit in an airport and watch the endless streams of people move through the systems. It is amazing … Continue reading
Once our small community was on its feet, meaning that we had established a spiritual program, Bhaktipad began to ask all of his Canadian disciples to move to our community. Within a year we had 20 families. Some began to … Continue reading
In those early days, when our community of devotees was just starting and the Norham idea was beginning to develop, my life experiences were still limited; so I could not fully understand or appreciate the significance of what I was … Continue reading
Soon another devotee arrived, a Scottish Prabhupada disciple named Gaur Nitai along with his wife and family. He brought a team of Brown Swiss plowing bulls! Within days he bought a house with 20 acres just across the ravine from … Continue reading
In those first months it was just Kanina, Gaudiya, myself along with our families. The three of us formed the core group. Kama Nagari, Lilashuka and myself were Prabhupada disciples, all the others, including Kanina, were Bhaktipada disciples. We had … Continue reading
One thing that all Hare Krishna devotees have in common is the Walden complex. We all have this idealism firmly installed in our heads from birth and it was reinforced from within the movement, “simple living and high thinking” are … Continue reading