Saraswati Puja 2010/2022: How Saraswati sends me to Kurdistan physically, Sri Lanka mentally, and girl-identity dreams internally (plus: the severed branch incubational period?)

Saraswati Puja 2010: Kurdistan, the Tamils, novel; Saraswati Puja 2022: writing about the Tamils and Eurasian interconnectedness; Washington State August 2022: overcome with need to write about Turkey

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my house: a sacred place for me and claire (first snow)

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November 19, 2024

my house: a sacred place for me and claire (first snow)

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Saraswati guides me to Buddhism and a new habitat: Saraswati Puja 2015, 2016, 2017; Durga Puja 2022

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November 29, 2024

Saraswati guides me to Buddhism and a new habitat: Saraswati Puja 2015, 2016, 2017; Durga Puja 2022

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When Rite Aid bought Payless: Saraswati working upon me since 1996? (Diwali/Durga Puja 1996; Saraswati Puja 2004, 2005, 2012)

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November 30, 2024

When Rite Aid bought Payless: Saraswati working upon me since 1996? (Diwali/Durga Puja 1996; Saraswati Puja 2004, 2005, 2012)

2023: everything lined up SO perfectly

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did Saraswati guide my mom to buy our house in Auburn Hills in 1996, and was Claire there in the trees in 2004?

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November 30, 2024

did Saraswati guide my mom to buy our house in Auburn Hills in 1996, and was Claire there in the trees in 2004?

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When Rite Aid bought Payless: Saraswati working upon me since 1996? (Diwali/Durga Puja 1996; Saraswati Puja 2004, 2005, 2012)

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November 30, 2024

2023: everything lined up SO perfectly

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January 2010: deciding to do human rights seminar project on the Tamils and Kurds

February 2010: earliest dreams about a novel with a main character who is a girl based on me and who travels through Eastern Europe seeking to understand the meaning of her life

Summer 2010:

#25: Full Moon Party in Cappadocia (August 5, 2022, the severed branch)

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November 25, 2024

#25: Full Moon Party in Cappadocia (August 5, 2022, the severed branch)

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#26: Delusion and Reality on the Black Sea Coast (August 14, 2022, the severed branch)

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November 25, 2024

#26: Delusion and Reality on the Black Sea Coast (August 14, 2022, the severed branch)

Above: The sun sets over the Black Sea and Trabzon, Turkey (all pictures my own)

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#27: Plunging into the Kurdish Regions of Southeast Turkey (August 23, 2022, the severed branch)

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November 25, 2024

#27: Plunging into the Kurdish Regions of Southeast Turkey (August 23, 2022, the severed branch)

Above: Akdamar Island in Lake Van, Turkey (photos my own)

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Writings, Saraswati Puja 2022:

Writings:

the kushan empire demonstrates the wiggly reality (a fusion of “east” and “west”)

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November 24, 2024

the kushan empire demonstrates the wiggly reality (a fusion of “east” and “west”)

special thank you to Craig Benjamin, my bodhisattva of history ❤️ (never met him ❤️)

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interesting details about Saraswati Puja 2022:

CORRECTION: written ON Holi, scheduled for publish day after:

when I was a child and summoned a demon, did I summon my dad? and did he implant something demonic inside me in that moment?

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November 21, 2024

did I summon my dad?

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when I was a child and summoned a demon, did I summon my dad? and did he implant something demonic inside me in that moment?

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November 21, 2024

did I summon my dad?

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August 2022: I write about turkey

journey to the big dipper (the severed branch #31, september 19, 2022)

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November 24, 2024

journey to the big dipper (the severed branch #31, september 19, 2022)

I will never be able to express what this means to me: it was true what I felt; I was looking for someone. I thought I was deluded. ❤️

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Essays referenced in final form:

the roman empire's african, asian, and illyrian reality (and the Mediterranean’s transformation from diverse paganism to a tightly defined and highly aggressive version of monotheism)

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November 24, 2024

the roman empire's african, asian, and illyrian reality (and the Mediterranean’s transformation from diverse paganism to a tightly defined and highly aggressive version of monotheism)

Sources:

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the kushan empire demonstrates the wiggly reality (a fusion of “east” and “west”)

eloise-hypatia

November 24, 2024

special thank you to Craig Benjamin, my bodhisattva of history ❤️ (never met him ❤️)

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Saraswati Puja 2010/2022: How Saraswati sends me to Kurdistan physically, Sri Lanka mentally, and girl-identity dreams internally (plus: the severed branch incubational period?)

Saraswati Puja 2010: Kurdistan, the Tamils, novel; Saraswati Puja 2022: writing about the Tamils and Eurasian interconnectedness; Washington State August 2022: overcome with need to write about Turkey

my house: a sacred place for me and claire (first snow)

Saraswati guides me to Buddhism and a new habitat: Saraswati Puja 2015, 2016, 2017; Durga Puja 2022

When Rite Aid bought Payless: Saraswati working upon me since 1996? (Diwali/Durga Puja 1996; Saraswati Puja 2004, 2005, 2012)

did Saraswati guide my mom to buy our house in Auburn Hills in 1996, and was Claire there in the trees in 2004?

When Rite Aid bought Payless: Saraswati working upon me since 1996? (Diwali/Durga Puja 1996; Saraswati Puja 2004, 2005, 2012)

#25: Full Moon Party in Cappadocia (August 5, 2022, the severed branch)

#26: Delusion and Reality on the Black Sea Coast (August 14, 2022, the severed branch)

#27: Plunging into the Kurdish Regions of Southeast Turkey (August 23, 2022, the severed branch)

the kushan empire demonstrates the wiggly reality (a fusion of “east” and “west”)

when I was a child and summoned a demon, did I summon my dad? and did he implant something demonic inside me in that moment?

when I was a child and summoned a demon, did I summon my dad? and did he implant something demonic inside me in that moment?

journey to the big dipper (the severed branch #31, september 19, 2022)

the roman empire's african, asian, and illyrian reality (and the Mediterranean’s transformation from diverse paganism to a tightly defined and highly aggressive version of monotheism)

the kushan empire demonstrates the wiggly reality (a fusion of “east” and “west”)

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