It begins as a wave lapping over the pebbles of sleep, the hush of blood to the heart, a surge on a shore, a long slow breathing out, a letting go.

I'm in Thea's Dharka and I'm I'm I'm I'm Tia's Dharker and I'm a poet. I'm interested in the way something as simple as the act of sweeping

can take on layers of meaning far beyond the everyday surface of things.

It's a rhythmic movement that slides into meditation, a repetitive task that can take on the quality of ritual or of poetry.

The imagery of the broom and sweeping has worked its way deep into language, traditions and beliefs.

I'm sweeping my floor early morning as soon as we rise up it is in a culture that we should

sweep the floor because in India we follow nature the rules of nature.

Nandini is not alone.

She's from Jaipur.

Across the world and through time people often women have been sweeping their homes

their places of work and worship.

As soon as the sun rises the lady of the house is expected to rise to and then clean the house,

rid the house of all the dirt.

Along with that, we feel all our negative energies of the house are also taken out, swept away.

When I lived in Bombay, I would wake in the early morning to the sound of sweeping in the compound outside the

window. It was a long slow stroke that worked its way into the space between being half asleep and half awake.

Sweeping is deeply ingrained in our Indian culture and traditions.

The broomstick is associated with two goddesses in our mythology,

goddess Lakshmi which is the goddess of wealth. So we consider that if we respect the broomstick, we give respect to goddess Lakshmi and wealth comes inside our homes.

Another goddess Shetla, which is the goddess who gives us good health and this goddess is depicted with a

broom in our hand so when we worship the goddess we are also worshiping the

broom. Par is not, you should be sicker.

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