User talk:Allenwalla
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Hello, Sat Sri Akal, W.K.W.F: Allenwalla Ji! A very warm welcome from SikhiWiki and many thanks for your contributions so far. I hope you will keep visiting this website and that you will help us enhance it by checking it, amending it, by adding to it, by discussing issues on the discussion pages, etc. Please feel free to add to or amend any of the topics that you have knowledge about. Don't worry about making mistakes, as these can be easily corrected.
With Waheguru's kirpa, may you always remain in Chardi kala. Many thanks, Hari Singh 19:38, 11 September 2007 (EDT)
Khalsa ji WaKaFa !
Welcome To Sach Khand.. As an evolving Sikhi. tradition your draft Sikh. frofile has been added to your personal page. Feel free to articulate it to your liking & persona. Do let me or any of the Users know if you need any help etc. It will be a pleasure. look forward to Sharing Thoughts & Ideas.
Gur Fateh !
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Intro all too many words
Perhaps a better screen name for myself would have been Tyal Mal (Master of Detachment), my birthdate nov. 11. Like the beloved Guru i would feel most happy in my basement reading, learning studying for all knowledge yours mine, anyone's including the words we use are all gifts of God.
so if i must! I live in america near atlanta. i grew up in the mtns. of n. ga. my grandfather (one died before i was born) was a farmer who planted a hundred acres of corn every year. he had 2 mules. my father was a worker as was my mother in a cotton mill. i had 8 years of college and taught as a prof. for some 6 yrs. in a university.
i grew up, my mother cooking in black iron pans, okra=bindi (sp), black eye peas, grits (ground corn), and mustard greens. wore plaid shirts many from madras and jeans. Went barefoot when ever possible.
after teaching, i am an artist, a cabinet maker, worker of wood, a welder and occasionally a blacksmith and medal caster. I am a mason. I speak french, study sandskrit, persian, hindi and urdu. my arabic script is poor, i'm learning chinese and japanese (very easy) and have completely worn out my sanskrit and panjabi dictionaries, they are falling apart. i greately admire Guru Nanak wear a kara and khanda, sent to me from a friend in mumbai which is heavy and which i sometimes change for one given to me at a Gurdwara north of san francisco, a particularly beautiful Gurdwara with golden domes which hundreds of thousands of people see every day on a mountainside as they commute to and from work. i usually forget my small wooden comb and kirpan. My long beard went with my hippy days.
every year when i can afford it my wife and i travel to her parents home outside of Yubba city CA often we go to the Gurdwara to sit listening to the prayers, songs and music of the Gurus and eat in the Laangar. I'm counting on the butter on the potshars story there. I have several Sikh friends around atl. one old sarge who fought in burma and now owns several service stations here and a motel, I am fond of him very much as i am of my friends Hari, Mohan, Vina, etc.
as a graphic designer i worked for some 8 years, in my last years i was responsible for printed packaging which a day or 2 later would be printed in runs costing $200,000+ so if i misspelled or missed a word well my employer would lose or pay the 200,000 printing himself. so lets just say i got to be very carefull at spelling. after working 60 or 70 hours a week i would go home and study history of india, china, japan, persia, etc. American and european i studied ad naseum in high kul and college'
paapi everyones' history is changing but the sikhs i know are very proud and aware of their cultural history. only the young sikh kids here as well as the ABCD's Hindus are in a cultural crisis. I guess all kids are caught up in this rite now when i think about it. Forgive me but i get angered when illiterate people here have actually killed sikhs thinking them to be terrorist muslims.
i believe everone are brothers and sisters this is only logical if you really believe with your heart and soul that we are all children of one Kartar or as one says here one Creator.
People speak this, but put up walls between east and west, north and south; walls between Christians, Sikhs, Muslims, Buddhists. I am about breaking down these walls opening the doors in each direction to everyone. when i talk with sikhs here about Hazrat mian mir laying the cornerstone of the Harminder Sahib and they don't believe me, when they don't know that Mardana was a musalman well I get peeved.
So thrilled to see this site, which I think has great potential for breaking down the walls of hatred of misunderstanding, and one which i think has great potential educational promise for not just some private wishing for the old ways or for more walls of separation, i.e. a private Sikh backpating club lamenting over the good old days.
So thinking my editing skills might be usefull here to edit the stories for spelling looking to see if a sentence could be understood, etc. And, I and many Sikh and non Sikh youth and adults do not speak gurmuk, pahari, hindi, etc. so pleeeeease add translations as my panjabi dictionary is not english user friendly.
Well writing this has been for me like pulling teeth. also I am 60 yrs. old
hope this suffices.Allenwalla 16:43, 12 October 2007 (EDT)
