Wow! It has been a while!
Just like the title said! Gosh, 2014 just flew by with a lot of traveling and personal changes. Moving is not a fun experience, and I would highly recommend everyone to either 1) not accumulate a lot of stuff, or 2) not move. In the cold winter months of January and February, there is a Nepali festival called Swasthàni Purnima. It starts on a full-moon evening of the month of Poush and ends a month later in Magh. This year, the festival started on January 4, and will end on February 3. Growing up in Nepal, I remember cold winter evenings when our family would gather around the heater with blankets and layers of clothing on around the Swasthàni book, and we would read a chapter a night. Because Hindus do not have specific congregations and services, this nightly reading was the only form of structured lessons in faith I ever got as a child. I remember being very excited when I could finally read Swasthàni. There is a verse evoking the Goddess Swasthàni, a form of the eternal female...