by Jean Francis | Apr 5, 2021 | Ceremony, Death, Environment, Final Resting Places, Funerals, Interfaith Funerals, Trees The Green Legacy
If you follow a particular religion, your will undoubtedly choose you own faith leader to conduct your funeral; each place of worship will have its own guidelines laid down by the authority. What choices will you make? For those who have no structure to follow and are...
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 | Sep 22, 2020 | Death, Environment, Grief, History & Culture, Trees The Green Legacy, Uncategorised
Trees: The Sacred And The Science. How our personal connection with trees and nature brings greater understanding beyond data collection and analysis. How the tears of relationship feed the earth. Online one thing guaranteed to cause lively, if not fierce,...
by Amanda C Vesty | Sep 19, 2020 | Death, Environment, Pets, Poetry, Uncategorised
In the cold grey light of dawn You lay silent on the path, Cold in your unexpected end, Your coat still glossy soft As if you hadn’t died at all But had simply stopped to rest. No marks despoiled your silvered sides; No harsh distortion disfiguring Your face or limbs...
by Amanda C Vesty | Aug 23, 2020 | Beliefs in Afterlife, Children, Death, Environment, Final Resting Places, Poetry
Nature poems by Alexis Kivi (1834-1872). He was originally known as Alexis Stenvall. Kivi is the Finnish national writer, poet, playwright, novelist and the creator of modern Finnish literature. Kivi changed his name from the Swedish ‘Stenvall’, meaning ‘stone bar’,...