Yesterday I saw a woman in a full burka driving a motorcycle. What an unexpected sight! All you could see were her hands because the slit in the cloth around her eyes was obscured by and oversized pair of sunglasses. It was an incongruent but delightful image.
This morning I heard Indian-style synthesized music coming from the window of a nearby apartment building. After a few moments I realized that the familiar tune was "Hark the Herald Angels Sing"!! Another unexpected surprise. There are Jain temples, Hindu temples, Mosques, and even the Parsi Tower of Silence and a fire temple in our neighborhood, but no churches that I know of. I didn't expect to hear any Christmas music this season. After "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" I got to hear a stylized version of "Jingle Bells." I tell you, "dashing through the snow in a one-horse open sleigh" is a little hard to imagine when you're living on the coast of the Arabian Sea!
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