Across the universe and for all of time…
…all over the world.
Do not stand at my grave and weep
I am not there. I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning’s hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry;
I am not there. I did not die.
– Mary Elizabeth Frye
Photo: Google
There are soldiers that defend freedom and those who take it away. Thank you to all our veterans who fought for the lives of people they never knew. Thank you to the men and women who stand ready to defend our nation at a moment’s notice.
Holocaust Memorial
Jewish Ghetto, Venice, Italy
Photo by: Allison LaBine
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.” – Pablo Neruda
Photo by Allison LaBine
Be happy for every moment you are alive, for every moment you are well, for every moment you are free. For in every corner of the world, there is suffering.
Today marks the start of the Namibian seal slaughter – 85,000 pups killed over the next 3 months for their fur. Maybe next year things will change. Thank you to those who tried, who always try to do what is right, especially against great odds.
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
Artwork by Ashton Howard. http://www.ashtonhoward.com
It takes a great force of love to take down walls built from a great deal of pain – and – an open receptiveness to that force.
-Allison LaBine
Photo by Allison LaBine; Florida
