by Amanda C Vesty | Mar 25, 2021 | Beliefs in Afterlife, Humour, Uncategorised
.Amusing musings from the one and only Gareth Davis. No not from me, oh no. You won’t be seeing me at any pearly gate or passing on for at least another 150 years and that’s if I die young. Before then I may even think of settling down a bit.. possibly get...
by Amanda C Vesty | Mar 10, 2021 | Death, Environment, Trees The Green Legacy, Uncategorised
.How would you like to pass from this world? What for you would be a good death? I think sitting under a tree with a smile on my face would be a lovely way to go … This sweet story comes from an article by Karen Marciniak “The best tree story I know...
by Amanda C Vesty | Mar 1, 2021 | Celebration of Life, Death, Environment, Poetry, Uncategorised
Fair Daffodils, we weep to seeYou haste away so soon;As yet the early-rising sunHas not attain’d his noon.Stay, stay,Until the hasting dayHas runBut to the even-song;And, having pray’d together, weWill go with you along. We have short time to stay,...
by Amanda C Vesty | Feb 10, 2021 | Death, Mindfulness
Death and Buddhism Here are five Buddhist contemplations, otherwise known as five remembrances. “I am subject to ageing, have not gone beyond ageing. I am subject to illness, have not gone beyond illness. I am subject to death, have not gone beyond death. I will grow...
by Amanda C Vesty | Jan 24, 2021 | Death, Poetry, Trees The Green Legacy
A poem by the seventh Dalai Lama “On each branch of the trees in my garden Hang clusters of fruit, swelling and ripe. In the end, not one piece will remain. My mind turns to thoughts of my death.” – Seventh Dalai Lama-
