Noreen's Journal

There is a Roof of Wisdom on my house porch🏡. It is a beautiful plaster decoration carved with some symbolic features.   When someone enters my house porch, no one realizes its uniqueness, well, how a layperson has inquiry eyes 👀. But when I make aware them of it, they become shocked and appreciate it. The plaster decoration in my house porch is placed in the middle of the interior roof and has maroon color on it. It has carved designs and by focusing, one can realize that it has an image of a bird and fish beautifully composed with each other. It is in a round shape and gives a picture of the shining sun, a symbol of wisdom. Some other viewers called it a flower shape, a symbol of purity.  But at first sight, it feels like a mandala or rangoli, and also sometimes it gives me a picture of the  Wheel of Law (Dharmachakra) design, an important symbol in Buddhism. It is common to have decoration on porch interior roofs in Pakistani houses but the plaster decoration on my h...