Today, I observed three children playing underneath the shade of a tree. While the canopy of this tree itself was not dense, its surrounding trees provided the children a shaded space to gather and play in. The tree had particularly large leaves. As I approached the children, I noticed that the children were playing with the large leaves that had fallen off. With utmost cheer, joy and zeal, the children were gathering, collecting, and assembling the large leaves on the shaded ground below.
As I walked by the children, I saw them gently place a small Ganesh idol on the bed of leaves that they had laid down. All this, while the children, with large amounts of excitement and enthusiasm, had been creating a small space to keep their idol. Here, the trees, their canopies and the leaves brought together the act of worship and the act of play for the children.
