Soon another devotee arrived, a Scottish Prabhupada disciple named Gaur Nitai along with his wife and family. He brought a team of Brown Swiss plowing bulls! Within days he bought a house with 20 acres just across the ravine from … Continue reading
Category Archives: Memoirs
In those first months it was just Kanina, Gaudiya, myself along with our families. The three of us formed the core group. Kama Nagari, Lilashuka and myself were Prabhupada disciples, all the others, including Kanina, were Bhaktipada disciples. We had … Continue reading
I have a Ukrainian aunt, who I went to visit when I was eighteen. This was my Aunt Nettie. At the time she lived in Winnipeg Manitoba, about 2500 kms west of Toronto. Aunt Nettie was married to my Uncle … Continue reading
One thing that all Hare Krishna devotees have in common is the Walden complex. We all have this idealism firmly installed in our heads from birth and it was reinforced from within the movement, “simple living and high thinking” are … Continue reading
In this country there is New York, New Jersey, New England, New Holland and many other places named after their original counterpart, mostly from Europe. So in 1969 Prabhupada started New Vrindavan named after its original place in India where … Continue reading
Had Kama Nagari and I been content to live a simple life, which was our original purpose in moving to our Walden, we could have lived comfortably on my scholarship. Kama Nagari may have found a part time job in … Continue reading
In those days Kama Nagari generally made the business decisions. I was there just to make things work, and so I lived in constant terror of what she might do next. Mostly I was in financial fear and consequently I … Continue reading
Kama Nagari, Vrindavan and I came to our Walden in May of 1977. Shesha was born in October of that year and we struggled making ski hats until the spring of 1978 when Kama Nagari’s sense of self preservation finally … Continue reading
Living at the cottage in the log house was no easy matter, especially for Kama Nagari, who was a southern girl and had never seen snow, what to speak of temperatures below 0 degrees Celsius. A Canadian winter can see the … Continue reading
Kama Nagari, Vrindavan and I arrived back in Toronto during early May of 1978. We had been away for almost two years. They were not easy years, but they were instructive ones. From Los Angeles I had sent Kama Nagari … Continue reading