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These are just a couple of little sidenotes:

 

I recently talked to a mataji friend of ours in Alachua. She was telling me

how Padayatra arrived there some time ago and has just stayed there since

their (Their) arrival. She said that someone had the idea that the cart could

travel from one devotee home to another and another for several hours - either

everyday or particular days of the week (I forget which she said). They have

been doing this for some time now, with the whole Padayatra program of

chanting,

etc. all over the area - since there are literally over a couple hundred

actual devotee residences they could go to - and with devotee children riding

along on the cart. She said all the devotees just love it. Padayatra will be

there until Gaura Purnima. I think that a horse is doing the pulling, etc. -

not an ox or team - but I was considering how this is very visible to the

devotees themselves in terms of the utility and pleasantness of engaging the

animals. I was thinking how if just one mild ox could be put to that service

in

Alachua shortly after Padayatra leaves, it would be a nice opportunity and

spring

board into drawing an immediate, direct focus onto the cows - while everyone

is blissfully and sadly waving goodbye to the Padayatra.

 

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Just to clarify - in my mind at least - what Gopal (my husband) said about

Iowa:

 

Iowa is a very nice, beautiful place with a lot of preaching and agricultural

opportunities. We have neither enough time - with work and taking care of

our family situation - nor money/land to do sustainable preaching or

sustainable

cow protection. If their was a million dollars and 20 adult devotees plus

kids, it'd be just as blissful and potential as anywhere. The soil is black

and

rich, the seasons are perfect. The state is an agricultural state with

plenty of space, cows to be saved, people to be saved. There is a colony of

Amish

communities and Fairfield - the town that teaches meditation, Sanskrit, etc to

it's kids. We actually moved here to try to open a preaching center - after

feeling that we weren't going to be able to "do cows" in Alachua any time

soon. We have found out that it is harder than we thought it would be to get a

 

center started. Anyway, that's my 2 cents about Iowa. I'm sure Gopal will

laugh at me when he gets home from work.

 

 

Hare Krishna.

Your servant, Kalavati devi dasi