Ask Vanna and Zach; Deevapurrli

 

Zach: Well this one got to us late, huh Vern? Thanks fer that...

Vernon: Sorry guys, *Chuckles uneasily*, we get a lot of these and some of them sorta...slip through the cracks.

Dawn: I blame our junk mail filter. S-sorry Vanna...

Vanna: It's quite alright Dawn. To be honest...we do celebrate Deevapurrli, but we probably don't do it up as big as most Bindians, especially now that I live with Zach. Maybe one rangolis altar area, with a few diyas...

Vernon: Uhh...Raviolis?

Zach: 'Rangolis', it's like colorful patterned rug, 'cept made outta organic stuff like chalk, er colored stone dust, er flower petals. And a'fer y'all ask 'diya's' are the word fer oil lamps made outta clay er' somethin'.

Vanna: Granted I cheat quite a bit, as I use a patterned rug instead of organic material, and tea lights instead of true diyas. Of course, my mother always did a more serviceable and traditional Deevapurrli when Myra and I were growing up. We'd draw the pattern circles as a family, and make all the little lights which were probably my favorite part. Myra was always more into the pattern circles.

Zach: *Chuckles* Fireflies, oil lamp makin', my Kitten certainly loves her little lights...

Vanna: *Rolls eyes* Zach...

Dawn: It sounds like a lovely little tradition.

Vanna: It is. I'd honestly love to share it with a kitten of our own one day. It's one of those traditions that really...well it made me feel closer to my family, even if we weren't anywhere near each other. It always left me with a warm feeling, and even sharing it with Zach has been a wonderful experience, and I'd love to share it with the rest of the pack.

Dawn: Well, I know we'd be honored to join you for a Deevapurrli ceremony sometime. I bet our pups would love it too.

Vernon: Yeah, we'd love to.

Vanna: As for visiting distant relatives back in Bindia well...let's just say my Mom didn't exactly...um...leave the family on the best of terms. You see, in Bindia arranged marriages are still very woven into the culture, and well...my mother was originally meant to marry someone other than my father. As you can tell by the fact that Myra and myself exist, she chose to marry for love instead of going along with the arrangement. So her side of our family more or less disowned her.

Zach: As fer' Mr. Felidae, welp he's third-generation Maneish, so they don't celebrate too much of the traditional Bindi ceremonies. But we have visited Lucero's side of the family fer' Deevapurrli before, but usually, we end up over there more often fer 'Manish' traditions instead of Bindian ones.

Vanna: my father loves his Cassowary fights.

Zach: And so do I! That stuff is wild! Always has me on the edge o' my seat. Ole!

Vanna: As for advice on keeping the 'Aunties' away...I'm not really sure how to advise on that...granted my experiences are limited to the aunts on my fathers side...of which there are five...

Zach: Lotta' estrogen in Lucero's household growin' up. *Chuckles* Even so, I don't thin Maneish aunties er' any different than Bindian ones in terms of meddlin' with the love life of their immediate family. Y'all can just tell 'em yer workin' on it. Or that yer talkin' to someone and yer hopin' things go somewhere with it.

Vanna: Vagueness is usually good...the vaguer you are, the harder it is for them to give you 'advice'.

Zach: Iffin' all else fails, pretend to be deaf...*Chuckles* I used to do that with Ma...

Vernon: Didn't work though, did it?

Zach: Nah, o'course not...it just made the conversation shorter...*Laughs*