Pretty Colors

I am overwhelmed by how beautiful the Indian women are -- their saris look like flowers blooming in the streets and shops. Today at Mass, I was the only non-Indian woman there, and most of the women wore saris or salwar khameez (spelling?), a long tunic over baggy pants. The colors of all the saris were amazing! As they paraded in, it totally distracted me from a nearby cricket game I was watching. Gauzy yellow ones, ivory silks with red bands at the edge, pink linen with embroidery on the sleeves and coordinating linen stripes beneath, translucent blue ones, Tuscan-colored olive and red ones..... too beautiful! I wish I could wear one! Also, those little half-tops they wear underneath leave the stomach bare, so I bet they're more cool and comfortable than my lame attempts to keep my shoulders and knees covered!

Also at Church, there was a nicely kept garden with orange and purple flowers blooming. It was very pretty, but the most impressive part of the garden was the cheeky, preachy signs -- "we take from the earth, and to earth we will return;" "say NO to plastic bags!" "care for every child;" and my personal favorite, "when you chop, it cries and dies; when you plant, it gives and lives." wow. rough. the signs were every five feet around the garden in Sacred Heart Cathedral -- the rest were ecologically or children's rights oriented. Great messages! Interesting that they are all in English and there are so many!