Wandering around Hartford I needed a place to pray. A church just wouldn't do. First I went to A Dong Market to view the many buddha statues for purchase. I left some meditative thoughts there.
Then I remembered the shrine on Warwarme Street just behind Bulkeley High School on Wethersfield Avenue. I have prayed there before. There was no one around so I stayed and prayed a while and left my card next to a statue of the Virgin Mary. This has become a very shabby urban shrine which so many have taken time to debunk. I found it helpful in my time of need. Plastic flowers, tarnished and worn statues of the Virgin and artificial flowers galore did not turn me away; they welcomed me. Tears shed are never shed in vain.
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