“மொட்டை மாடியில் குளிர் காய்ந்தோம்” 🥰
[Campfire with friends @ home, upstairs]
29th March 1997
#memoriesfromdiaries
What added joy when you’re with friends sleeping the entire blessed night right under moonlight, in the serene breeze of the open air - upstairs of your home-sweet-home, and then on, quite early into the mornings you go out for your dawny cup of coffee with your friends [Thilak - aka Thilakaramanujam - my bestie whom I’ve mentioned here, loves tea, though!], and then assemble back again [without making any noise whatsoever, and without the knowledge of parents and neighbours] 😉, and quietly gather together to start a good campfire, with the available sticks, twigs and paper, - like good bricoleurs 😊 - just for the sheer fun and joy that it gives you, and then proceed to engage on a lovely banter, a lively conversation by taking good care of the carefully erected fire lay 😉 all-through!
Well, when I look back on this episode, the phrase in Tamil that I’ve used here, in my diary, is reason enough to state that –
Some emotions, some experiences, some thoughts, are best expressed in the native tongue! I couldn’t even think of a better phrase than ‘குளிர் காய்ந்தோம்…’ மாடியில்… to bring out the aura, the shine and the sheen of the lovely experience in all its grandeur.
Then we came down and plucked 5 வாழைக்காய்s or raw bananas from our own sweet backyard that housed a couple of banana plants.
After this morning jaunt, on a holiday such as this one, [Saturday], our next go-to destination was to read our morning newspaper.
Well, as regards the morning newspaper, it’s a 16-page magical wand filled with surprise and suspense in every page that you so delightfully flip through!
This day was no exception.
Chanced upon an article titled, ‘Into Heaven’s Gate’, San Diego cultists who were obsessed with the Hale-Bopp comet, planned their exit with its Arrival.
Their own site on the Web says, Hale Bopp’s arrival is joyously very significant to us at ‘Heaven’s Gate’.
I quote, from my diary entry -
“The joy is that, our older Member in the Evolutionary Land above Human [in the kingdom of Heaven] has made it clear to us that Hale-Bopps approach is the ‘marker’ we have been waiting for – the time for the arrival of the space craft from the Level Above Human to take us home to ‘Their World’, in the literal heavens.
Our 22 years of classroom here on planet earth is finally coming to conclusion – graduation from the Human Evolutionary Level.
We are happily ‘prepared to leave this world’ and go with Ti’s crew, the page says. Heaven’s Gate was founded in the 70s by Marshall Apple White. He calls him, ‘Do’ and his wife, ‘Ti’.
The mass suicide of the cultists ☹ who numbered 39, died in the three batches, over a period of three days.
According to them, bodies are physical vehicles, containers.”
Intriguiging to the core! Ain’t it?
