Tonight, Jhulan Yatra at the temple in Graceville.
Our resident photographer, Sukanthi Radha, left for London last night after a year as part of the family here in Brisbane.
Just before she left I showed her how to use F-Spot, the photo management software that she has installed on her laptop as part of the Fedora Linux operating system.
Using F-Spot I’ve been organizing the more than 7000 photos that Sukanthi has taken across NZ, Australia and England in the last three or four years. As a demo I’ve created (using tags and the one click “Export” feature of F-Spot) a gallery that shows the evolution of the platform at the Sunday Feast over the time that Sukanthi was taking photos at the Sunday Feast.
Click on “Prev” to travel forward through time (I couldn’t figure out how to reverse the order). Many thanks to all the people who have “taken to the stage” and lead kirtans, bhajans, and spoken at the Sunday Feast over the past year.
And many thanks to my dear godsister Sukanthi Radha devi dasi for your participation and contribution here over the past year. You’ve made a big difference and we will miss you. I think of it as a leave of absence more than a parting of the ways. It makes it easier.
Many planks and sticks, unable to stay together, are carried away by the force of a river’s waves. Similarly, although we are intimately related with friends and family members, we are unable to stay together because of our varied past deeds and the waves of time.
- Srimad Bhagavatam 10.5.25
The Evolution of the Sunday Feast: Start Here
