My family and our times: 01/01/2019

Saturday, January 19, 2019

Khajoor in Sherwood 2019

‘Khajoor’ Dates is a new fruit in our yard. It’s a surprise that our Palm had it. The Gardener while pruning the tree leaves even removed dates fruits. We lost all this year crop of Khajoor.

When I tasted one of the tiny fruits, it was fresh, delicious and tasteless but a big hard seed inside which could not be broken by teeth.

I felt sad that we carelessly destroyed the delicious fruit.

Thursday, January 17, 2019

I have been teaching turban tying for couple of decades now. It was my regular duty to help the Annual Camp at Khalsa School San Jose to help budding Sikh toddlers and growing kids to help them with this new phenomena which will be part of their self being for the rest of their lives. It will not not only protect their head and hair but also enhance their stature, personality and unique identity. since it will be a part of their faces, it is very important that they how to use this as an enhancement tool.

I have also been invited to do Turban Tying during weddings.

For a Sikh, a turban (also known as the Dastaar, Pagri or Pagg) is an essential part of everyday life and a reaffirmation of their faith. This unique headgear (comprising a long unstitched cloth, wound around the head over an inner under-turban called patka) is quintessentially Sikh and is a tradition that has survived the travails of time.

They have to learn minute details of size, texture, printings and colors of the cloth to be wrapped around head. There are also various styles of turbans like, boat shape, round & circular, Nok-Daar and Region wise. The Maharajas also made it popular among their youths. By adopting a unique style will become a part of ones personality for whole life.

Before going to School, Gobind comes to my room to wrap the turban under my watchful eyes to fine tune his new learning phenomena. Today as he makes a special request to help him tye the turban quickly as he was in a hurry for the school. Normally he is very particular to clock his time for the purpose, where as I would do it even lesser time and that too neatly.

Thae most thrilling part was when he said, with tying turban my readying time has been really cut down while tyins a Dastar/Patka used to take hell of time. I felt I was awarded by his statement that turban takes lesser time and is more practical.