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X-mas eve

During my recent visit to my mom's place Sawantwadi, we have experienced something totally new. On X-Max eve, a group of passionately dressed Christians visited our place. The group consists of around 25 people, couple of Santas, Merry, star, wand, guitar, other musical instruments and what not. They were given a cluster of 10 houses to cover. They came, prayed, sang euphonious melodies, blessed us, illuminated the stars during the performance, danced to tunes, and what not, the list is endless.

To my surprise, the list of items performed by the same group at neighbours places were different. OMG. It was an awesome and touching experience indeed.

While leaving our house, one of the participants handed over the perfumed candle to place in our house for warmth of wishes of X-Mas and birth of Jesus.

Spreading blessing by visiting various houses, taking out time for such a good cause and as a social activity, is worth noticing. The members of group consists of professionals, students, church empolyees, mothers, homemakers etc.

X-Mas period at Sawantwadi near Goa, gave me superb collection of memories. To add one more, in my list was the distribution of home-made delicious, healthy eatables, both sweets and spicy stuff. Wow. I was really astonished to see that the eatables were exactly same as maharashtrians make during Deepavali festival. Wow, complete resemblance. So nice to see that. Only difference was, all items were having the flavors of Konkan.

So this year, I was able to relish Deepavali sweets twice in the same year, few months apart, with varied aroma and essence to cherish.

Wrote on FB on Dec 31, 2017, 2:25 PM

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#kokan #maharashtra 

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