The Lansing temple recently organized a special Diwali program. My daughter Shreya participated in a dance and I, as always, took photographs of the event. Click here or the image below to see all 161 of the photographs I took.
Enjoy.
You can also read a poem written by Shreya on Diwali on her blog Uniquely Mine.
A few randomly selected blog posts…
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A few weeks ago I had written about an email that I received from an eighth grader in Colorado. Jake, a budding poet, was interested in learning more about me in the context of some palindromic poetry I had written many years ago. I wrote back to Jake (you can see the...
I don't know if anyone has been following the back and forth following my posting about the Periodic Table of Typefaces (see Yet another periodic table...). In brief, I was quite critical of the design of this table and made that point in no uncertain terms. Imagine...
Fantastic Pictures.
Viewed over and over.
Thanks.
Regards.
Sincerely,
Joshis