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-
by Amanda C Vesty | Jan 12, 2021 | Children, Death, Grief, Poetry
A very beautiful heartbreaking and heart healing poem. Say Olin The time of concern is over. No longer am I asked how my wife is doing. Never is the name of our son mentioned to me. A curtain descends.The moment has passed. A life slips from frequent recall. There are...
by Amanda C Vesty | Oct 27, 2020 | Beliefs in Afterlife, Ceremony, Community, Death, History & Culture, superstitions, Uncategorised
The Mexican Festival of the Dead – El Dia de los Muertos – Jean Francis One of my most memorable holidays has to be a visit to Mexico to take part in the The Mexican Festival of the dead – El Dia de los Muertos. This festival is a sacred...
