When he tried to find a boatman to ferry him over, however, he found that all the locals were too scared to do so, on account of the dragons and serpents then inhabiting the island. When San Giulio arrived the the area, he decided he wanted to build a church on the island that sits in the middle of the lake. January 31st marks the feast of Saint Julius, the 4th-century Greek preacher who is credited with bringing Christianity to Lake Orta (Lago d’Orta), a Northern Italian lake near where my Italian side of the family lives. I bitterly wept and wished that I had had the heart to give thee my all. I felt that the luck of my life had come at last Then of a sudden thou didst hold out thy right hand and say ‘What hast thou to give to me?’Īh, what a kingly jest was it to open thy palm to a beggar to beg! I was confused and stood undecided, and then from my wallet I slowly took out the least little grain of corn and gave it to thee.īut how great my surprise when at the day’s end I emptied my bag on the floor to find a least little grain of gold among the poor heap. Thy glance fell on me and thou earnest down with a smile.
My hopes rose high and methought my evil days were at an end, and I stood waiting for alms to be given unasked and for wealth scattered on all sides in the dust. I HAD GONE a-begging from door to door in the village path, when thy golden chariot appeared in the distance like a gorgeous dream and I wondered who was this King-of all kings!
On my way back from Silchar, India, where I participated in the Anuvad Arts Festival (more on that to follow), I had an 8-hour layover at Indira Gandhi International airport in Delhi, where I read the poems of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) and scribbled some drawings inspired by them on the blank spaces in my flight information printouts.
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