Years ago, maybe in 2003, I started working on an embroidery, a Durga yantra, on and off, sometimes leaving it for years. This last two weeks I have made an extra effort, and finished it the morning of the ceremony. We put it straight at the altar.
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So it is all the time now: Things I have done, skills I have acquired, stuff I have gathered, been given, bought, from all over the world, over periods of (sometimes tens of) years, it all comes so useful together for this murti garden.