Big A's in Milwaukee until Sunday, so I took Nu with me. As always, they protested having to go and as we walked home, raved about how glad they were that they went and how much they love "community." I guess I do know best after all. Ha.
I am a sentimental mess just from reading Nicole's account of The Small One (Q: Is this the first time I've cried at a Wikipedia entry? Ans: No.). I love its theme of offering up devotion in whatever small way one can. "Little Drummer Boy" is another great example of this. And now I'm thinking of "Le Jongleur de Notre-Dame" that I first encountered in Anatole France's version in my French textbook. And now I'm thinking of how much my mom loved that story when I shared it with her, and how she connected it to the story of Kannappa who did all the taboo things (offered meat, spat water, put his feet etc. on the deity) out of love and devotion. And this in turn reminds me of a scene in a Tamil movie whose plot and title I've forgotten in which the Hindu heroine who is in love with a Christian boy goes to church to pray for him. But she doesn't know any Christian prayers, so she recites the entirety of an 8th century hymn-paean written for Durga in front of a statue of the Virgin Mary. It's a moment my mom and I found both funny and sweet. It's a hymn my mom and I love. And now I miss my mom.
Pic: A forest of candles at CB's "Winter Warm Up Party."
5 comments:
I'm glad Nu had a good time at the party. It is nice to get an acknowledgment that we were right, as parents.
SOLIDARITY IN SENTIMENTAL SOBBING. Ah, tis the season. The Little Drummer Boy also always makes me verklempt.
The Little Drummer Boy always makes me tear up when I hear it. And whenever I had to sing it in Choir at school, I could almost not get through it.
Small acts of kindness. They always mean so much.
I love hearing the memories of your mother.
Enjoy your victory with Nu. May they always feel so warm about their community.
Enjoy.
<3 to you all!
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