Free Writes Lecturing I am obsessing over the lecture I have to give on Zoom on June 6th. Since I rarely lecture, it takes me a lot of time to prepare one. For this one I’m going to tell Prabhupada stories. The first one will be of his attempt to acquire land and build a […]

Free Writes The Trucks Roll By at Stuyvesant Falls For two weeks now there has been a constant flow of huge trucks passing right by our house. For one week they carried grass for the cows, and now they are carrying liquified manure. The manure is used in fertilizing the fields to make grass for […]

Free Writes Local News Spring has sprung. We do not expect any more frosts. Atindra and Lalita-kaisori came by to plant flowers for the Deities in our gardens. They planted marigolds and gladiolas, and then vegetables in Trinidad-Bala’s fenced in garden plot down the street. They didn’t come in the house because of social distancing, […]

Free Writes Springtime at Stuyvesant Falls Columbia County has fewer cases of Covid-19 than the other counties. The post office at Stuyvesant Falls is very small and only allows three people in the building at once. That’s because with more than three, they can’t maintain the six-foot social distancing. Yesterday two neighbors hired professionals to […]

Announcement: I have been invited by my disciple Madana-Gopala dasa to give a Krsna conscious internet talk on Zoom and Youtube on Saturday, May 9 at 11:00 A.M. EST. The Zoom link: https://tinyurl.com/ud7rxd4 The Facebook link: https://www.facebook.com/iskconofnj This will be a live broadcast, and I invite all FWJ readers and other interested parties to tune in. Free Writes Narasimhadeva’s Appearance Day We cannot […]

Announcement: I have been invited by my disciple Madana-Gopala dasa to give a Krsna conscious internet talk on Zoom and Youtube on Saturday, May 9 at 11:00 A.M. EST. The Zoom link: https://tinyurl.com/ud7rxd4 The Facebook link: https://www.facebook.com/iskconofnj This will be a live broadcast, and I invite all FWJ readers and other interested parties to tune […]

Free Writes Jayadvaita Swami’s Phone Call Jayadvaita Maharaja phoned me just to make an update and friendly contact. He’s moved out of New York City and is staying in the temple at Towaco, New Jersey. He gives three Bhagavatam lectures a week which are broadcast over the internet and watched by shut-ins. He told me […]

Free Writes Writing We are planning to publish and distribute two books at my July 4th meeting of disciples and friends. We already have one book printed and in hand. I hope the coronavirus epidemic will not threaten the printing of the second book and that the printers will stay open for business. Nitai-Gaurasundara told […]