Eye in the Sky: Remembrance Day

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Remembrance Day

I will be going to the remembrance day parade and my husband and some of his friends will go the the cemetery to have a toast with my Son. Sometimes a friend of ours will also play the pipe for him.

Normally i would go to the legion afterwards but our legion burned down this year. I don't know yet if i will go on Base , where the get together will be this year.

It is a somber Day for me...i'm a pacifist and peacenik at heart and became more so as i got older. Yet i'm surrounded by everything Military...my best friends and family are military or have something to do with the military.

People i love and care for .
I seen what going to War has done to some of them emotionally and physicality .

I'm conflicted by a lot of it and still have a hard time sorting it all out in my mind and heart.

But today is a day of remembrance ,and remember is all i want to do.

Introspection will have to wait for another day

Lest We Forge

7 comments:

My name WAS Female, I shit you not! said...: Sending gentle(((hugs)))to you m/f; November 11, 2010
Hilary said...: I am so very sorry for your unthinkable loss. As the mother of a recently-commissioned Officer in our Canadian military, your devastating reality is my worst nightmare.

I have written about our losses in Afghanistan a few times over the last few years. My heart goes out to you and your family. My gratitude for your son is indescribable.

Hugs to you.; November 11, 2010
mxtodis123 said...: I know this day must be so difficult for you. I cannot imagine how you must feel, but know that my heart goes out to you. Sending ((((hugs)))) your way.
Mary; November 11, 2010
Unknown said...: Thank you for sharing your personal and private pain. Thank you for letting me remember with you. Thank you for reminding us to look for solutions not conflict.; November 11, 2010
Debra She Who Seeks said...: Thinking of you today and the pain of all mothers and parents who have lost their sons and daughters to war.; November 11, 2010
wawa2 said...: From one fellow conflicted peacenik to another sending ALL my love. Thinking of you and Patrick and your family.; November 12, 2010
Irene said...: I'm thinking of you and your son. My son was a pacifist. He had to give up his life anyway.; November 13, 2010

A Dream Within A Dream

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand-
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep- while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?

Edgar Allan Poe

Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment: ~Exodus 23:2

There but for the grace of God, go I

“Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it.”

― Eliza Tabor Stephenson

OH gravity, thou art a heartless bitch ~ Sheldon Cooper

“Calvin: Do you believe in the devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of man? Hobbes: I'm not sure that man needs the help”

I'm polymerized tree sap and you're an inorganic adhesive, so whatever verbal projectile you launch in my direction is reflected off of me, returns to its original trajectory and adheres to you~Sheldon Cooper

"My existence is a continuum, so I've been what I am at each point in the implied time period."

Sheldon Cooper

"You go with the knowledge you have. And you cannot castigate yourself for not knowing more than you do"

Vivian Rakoff

"Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

Friedrich Nietzsche

"The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority."

Ralph W. Sockman

Character is What You Do When No One is Watching

One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others. ~Moliere

Et küt wie et küt

"I hope the exit is joyful--I hope not to return".--Frida Kahlo

About this blog

I believe in the cave paintings at Lascaux,

the beauty of the clavicle,

the journey of the salmon.

I believe in all the gods -

I just don't like some of them.

I believe the war is always against the imagination,

is recurring, repetitive, and relentless.

I believe in fairies, elves, angels and bodisatvas.

Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy,

I believe Raven invented the Earth

and so did Coyote. In archeology

lie the clues. The threshold is numinous

and the way in is the way out.

I believe in the alphabets, all of them

and the stories seeping from between their letters.

I believe in dance as prayer, that the heart

beat invented rhythm and chant --

or is it the other way around?

I believe in the wisdom of the body.

I believe that art saves lives

and love makes it worth living them.

And that could be the other way around, too.

- Judith Roche