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Thaipusam actually celebrates the birthday of the Hindu deity Subramaniam. On this occasion, Hindus show the sincerity of their faith. It is a time for making and fulfilling vows. Devotees pray for divine help and make vows. When their prayers are answered, they fulfil their vows.
To do this, a devotee would pierce his cheeks, tongue, face or other suitable body parts with sharp objects. Next his friends or relatives load a *kavadi on his shoulder. Finally, in a trance-like manner, he goes on a 4km journey of faith.
Others, including young children, might join the procession carrying only milk pots. The Thaipusam Singapore procession starts at the Sri Srinivasa Perumal Temple on Serangoon Road and ends at the Sri Thandayuthapani Temple on Tank Road.
At first look, one might think that the festival starts at one temple and ends at another. Not so. Many of the devotees start fasting a month before the Thaipusam Singapore festivities. Others fast a week. Yet others three days.
A Hindu friend said this to me, "If you are going to put a 12-inch skewer through your cheeks and a hundred spikes in your chest, you'd better take your fast seriously!"
* A kavadi is a cage-like structure carried by devotees during the Thaipusam Festival.
It is traditionally decorated with peacock feathers and aluminium plates which show images of Hindu deities. Sharp spikes criss-cross its lower section.
An elaborate kavadi might weigh up to 15kg! It is quite something just to lift it. But these chaps I saw actually walked with them for 4km - kavadis, skewers, hooks, spikes and all!
Some of them even skipped and danced with their kavadis. Either they have great endurance or they have some supernatural help.
Although I thought that by now they'd have returned to their home in the Independent State of Samoa, I keep seeing the Three Blind Men performing here and there. You can't help but like three blind guys who are obviously enjoying themselves so much, but this seemingly harmless singing group actually stirred up some controversy last week. Check out the story at this link:
Pennsylvania State Representative Manue Guzman Jr speaking with the press. Governor Tom Wolf today was joined by advocates and legislative members to celebrate the $30 million increase in early childhood education funding in the state budget at the YMCA in Reading. This new funding will allow an additional 3,270 children to enroll in the state’s high-quality early learning programs. Reading, PA - July 19, 2021
Three Days Grace in concerto al Graspop Metal Meeting 2023 di Dessel foto di Andrea Ripamonti per www.rockon.it
We have plenty of these pigeons around where we live, so much so that they're almost a nuisance at times.
These three are on a morning forage for breakfast!
The weather so far this September has been great and the air very clear, so I took the opportunity to take a few shots from our closest Mountain "Palon". In this photo Lago di Garda is only just visible to the left of Cima Comer (a zoomed in photo to follow tomorrow). You can also clearly see mountains in Veneto, Lombardia and Trentino.
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Three Eastern Bluebirds (Sialia sialis) check out Nestbox #1 this morning.
There will be bluebirds here over the winter, and they will use the nestboxes as winter roosts. Whether they are the parents from this summer and their offspring, I don't know. Perhaps my bluebirds went further south, and these are birds from up north.
In any case, at this time of year the bluebirds reappear and check out all available roosting places.
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The Postcard
A postally unused postcard bearing no studio name.
The three girls are all wearing the same style of shoe.
The card does not have a divided back, therefore it is probable that the card was published prior to 1902.
Worcester Three-Deckers Multiple Property Study
Worcester County, MA
Listed: 02/09/1990
Three-deckers form a distinctive element of Worcester's built environment. They dominate the landscape of most of the city's pre-1930 neighborhoods and include a remarkable variety of forms. The buildings included in this nomination are all three-story houses containing three flats on separate floors that open off common front and rear stairwells, with roughly equivalent floor space on each floor.
The Worcester Multiple Resource Area (MRA) Amendment includes 77 individually contributing buildings and 11 districts, making a total of 189 contributing properties proposed for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places. Two noncontributing objects and forty-eight noncontributing buildings, mostly garages, are also included. The nominated properties, all three-deckers, are representative of the era of industrial development, population growth, ethnic diversification, and physical expansion that took place in Worcester between 1880 and 1930. In that period, Worcester's population grew 235% from 58,291 to 195,311, and much of the city's landscape was transformed by the widespread construction of the three-deckers that continue to give character to many Worcester neighborhoods today. It is estimated that more than 6,000 of these buildings were built in Worcester over this fifty year period. More than 4,200 of them survive today, although only a small proportion of these retain their original appearance.
Worcester's three-deckers were built during an epoch of rapid urbanization and industrialization, and were designed to meet the needs of a rapidly growing population of varied economic means. Three-deckers were an integral part of the growth of Worcester's urban structure, and their location in the city related to general trends in the city's late 19th and early 20th century expansion, and to shifts in the modes of intraurban transportation.