Fort Erie,
Ontario
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One good friend
of mine, or shall I say, someone I know who’s a good friend to many, lives on the
Canadian side of the border near the Peace Bridge in Fort Erie. His name is Murali Krsna, aka Mark Griffis, and
he has his home situated right on Lake Erie.
I looked him up and popped in for a visit, before proceeding on to
Toronto.
The boys and I
shared some time, prasadam and a swim
with Murali and his life partner, Pundarik.
Murali wasn’t aware of my U.S. walk, what to speak of my completing
it. Now he is, and the congratulations
came. The swim was a thanks and this
walking body of mine found it welcoming.
I credit Murali
for being a walking companion back in ’96 when he and his son, Tyler, and
friend, Malcolm, took to walking with me along the Niagara River. It was a long
walk. I managed to make it an 82
kilometre day on that celebratory one called Radhastami, in honour of the consort of Krishna and ‘ultimate’
Goddess. There’s always a need for cheerleaders
and walking buddies can make the best ones.
This final drive
from Niagara to Toronto actually marked the official finish of the U.S. walking
project. It was a sweet gesture that the
homebase community arranged two fabulous cakes after my talk from verse 2.16 of
the Gita. The ingredients were sugar and
spice and everything nice, and the icing was creamy, with a dark outline of the
U.S. of A. and footsteps in carob running across the nation from east to west.
I believe the
entire community caught a piece of the action—that is, a piece of one of the
cakes. The author of the masterpiece was
Systyna.
Thank you all.
“Om Tat Sat. Thanks an awful
lot!” As Murali would say.
May the Source be
with you!
6 km
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