Remembrance Day

For the Ladies
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For the Ladies

Hail brave hearts

The joy is in the giving, they say, so be the one who brings joy into this world.  Have gratitude for the good in life and strive to make it better.

Hail to the ladies, the homemakers that save us.  The home, the hearth, the comforting indoor space that protects us.  The home, where we share our lives with our families.  This is the best place that the world has to offer,  the home.  The home, where nurturing is, where people care, where our lives are born and cherished,  where we grow and mature.  This is the family place, the special private place for love and laughter, joy and giving.  The world’s safe place.  A place to be safe with a family who knows and cares

There are many aspects to a home, it’s not always a house to live in.  It’s a place of bonding, of sharing, of nurture and care.  It the place that we always remember, for what was so good about it.  The family, the chef, the seamstress, the carpenter, the family man and his wife with all of the children that are gifts to them.  The gift of children, the gift of family, whether the fortunes are high, or not.

Some are saved by having plenty, plenty of spirit, of knowledge, of education, of connections, friends, loved ones and community.  Some are saved by having less, but still the bonds of family, friends, affection, community and sharing.  More of less, whatever it is.  life brings fruits and hammers to all of us.  The resilient rise, the strength of others subsides, but the nucleus of the family and this support, brings strength to those in despair. Gather round, the support is there.  Love and kindness wins.

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To those of us from the support side, the family connections are needed.  It’s the times of trouble that cause the most stress and the connection to key elements in life is necessary to bolster the strength needed to surpass the pain.  Small acts of kindness are sometimes the greatest gift of all.  A warm hug, a friendly conversation, an invitation to join, a plan for relief.  The task may seem too challenging, but there are those who care.  The family is the first and last resort in healing.

In our direst hour, strength is in our loved ones.

So disaster strikes and healing begins, first at home, then in community.  Those who know will come forward with care, compassion and sometimes affection.  Love grows and miracles emerge.  The home is growing, it’s becoming a neighbourhood, of friends, connections, work force and people.  God’s family are emerging.  God’s family are contacting, connecting,  reaching, touching, sharing, caring, warming the heart and the soul.  This is community. where all of us live.  A place to call home, a community to belong to. A sense of fellowship and a safe haven from the world’s difficult times.

Rejoice in good fortune, it comes and it goes.  Mourn in despair, but gather your courage.  The winds of time blow warm and cold.  This is just what life is.  Be strong, be courageous,  love and be loved.  The world will miss your participation.

Written by Dr. Louise E Hayes

April 16.2025

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Peace be with you

Hail Brave hearts

We stand on guard for thee.

Those words ring true at this hour, the 11th month, the 11th day, the 11 hour.  Truce, amnesty, no  more  war.  Relief, relax, go home.   Home, to where the heart is.  Home, to safety, security, loved ones.  Home to your peace.  You fought the great fight, for this great land.  It still belongs to us.  To us in democracy.  To build, to repair, live in the freedoms that we believe in.  To choose  a path for ourselves that we believe is right.  To hold onto the dreams of our own destiny.

This is the fight that we fight for.  This is the brotherhood that we share.  These are the laws that we live by.  Peace to you and to yours.

Wars cause great sacrifice, madness and despair.  Worlds of devastation, at enormous loss to repair.  The people, the buildings, the environment, the Earth.  All of this perishes from battles, sometimes beyond repair.  The scope and the magnitude of tragedy and loss, from something so evil it brings us nothing but pain.  Pain for our lives lost to suffering so severe, pain to the planet as it strives to repair itself.  Build it all up, tear it all down, tear it all down, build it all up.  Battle upon battle, upon battle, upon battle some more.  More to live for, more to fight for, more to loose lives for.  War upon war upon war.

 

 

Is the end in sight, for this great human race, who brags about brilliance and exceeding all others?  A creation so strong, they reinvent themselves and conquer the mysteries of the great planet and the universe.  Is there a time for peace in this planetary war, of fighting for space in a such  a small, finite place?  With all of the hardships that war brings to us, the costs are exorbitant.  Costly in human lives and costly in planetary life.  All of this, just for us.

Radioactive soils, radioactive air.  Pollution from bombing, so much so, that the day turns to night.  Fires, smoke, gasses, destruction.  All of our efforts to live, pass with these massive efforts of death.  Destroy it all!  Ruin the world.  Human death, human sacrifice and kill all of the surroundings.  No more farming, no more forest, the water is undrinkable, the air is too difficult to breathe.  The mounting sacrifice of human despair.  The planetary costs as well are sometimes beyond repair.  The expectation is too high, that the world will heal itself.  Maybe.  Not all wounds heal.  Some fester, some swell, some are infected and some kill.  To assume that the war, will end without catastrophe, is naive,at best.  War is catastrophe.  All of our efforts to be human and humane, could perish with a war, if the planet doesn’t regain itself.

Peace to you, on this day of remembering.  Put the dark side away, light the torch of light.  Walk a lawful path.  Live well oh brave hearts.  Life is calling you.

written by Dr. Louise Hayes

November 11, 2018