oops...

09-03-2000, 09:03 PM

Last night, as we were leaving a local festival, my hand went to my
pocket, and i panicked a bit. my red sandlewood mala, the one my root
teacher had blessed, that i'd said i dunno-how-many mantras on was gone.

i turned to my husband and said "we have to go back, i've lost my mala".
We retraced my path a bit, and it did not show up.

resigned, and strangely just a little sad, i accepted the loss, and even
prayed that whoever picked it up might have many blessings.

I keep a small box on my altar, and in it i had a small clear quartz
crystal strand of beads. It was a gift from a friend. The beads were cool,
and smaller than my other strand. it felt like the mantra was refracting
through the crystal to the universe.

This morning, as i was getting into my car, an object was tangled in the
seatbelt....yep....it came back to me.

A strand of once-red beads
turned black from use....

Made a nice moment of drama in my life tho.

--janpa who leads a nice boring life.

p.s. Thinking of taking up Taiko drumming....

! Taiko are large Japanese
kettle-looking deep throated drums. Quite cool!