Have you seen Annapurna Cafe’s prayer wheel? The Broadway Himalayan restaurant reported the wheel was taken earlier this week:

Prayer Wheel Stolen: Hand made Tibetan prayer wheel Stolen from our front entrance, we need community help! It might in garbage bin, a bush or in alley, keep a lookout any information please let us know. 206-320-7770. Thank you.

Annapurna has been part of Broadway for more than two decades. CHS visited with owners Roshita Shrestha and Sujan Sharma here in 2023 as they celebrated 20 years of business on Capitol Hill.

As for the missing prayer wheel, here’s hoping for the same good fortune that came for another Broadway business’s missing wheel a few years back.

Eight years ago, Broadway “metaphysical boutique” The Vajra had its prayer wheel taken. But providence was on the shop’s side.

A man spotted the wheel abandoned “sitting in the waters of Lake Washington” and then saw CHS’s report on the theft and notified the store.

“This has turned out to be a story of triumph of love. I hope whomever the perpetrator is, they receive mental health care. They are not bad, They are sick and need help,” Vajra’s tarot reader Michelle Bloom said at the time. “Sickness led to destruction, destruction led to loving rebirth. The wheel plays the role of wheel, returning with new prayers to send out into the universe.”

Hopefully a similar cycle plays out for Annapurna’s wheel. And somebody is out looking for it along the Lake Washington shore.

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