Monthly Archives: June 2011

II Samuel: Chapter 22, verse 29, “For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.”  The light eminating from the lamp represents the pathway to Truth and to Knowledge.

When the Bostonian Brahmin, Amos Binney, died in Rome in 1847, his wife Mary Ann fulfilled a promise she made to him before his death–she would return his body to his beloved homeland.  Mary Ann commissioned Thomas Crawford, an impressive … Continue reading →

While monuments that portray infants in sea shells are not all that common, you can spot them.  This monument is in the Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta, Georgia.  Baby Maurine, the infant son of R. P. and Anna A. Robbins, was … Continue reading →

The most poignant and tender gravestones are those for children.  When one wanders through pilgrim and pioneer cemeteries, you notice just how many children’s graves there are.  Infant mortality rates were extremely high.  In the 1850s, the mortality rates for … Continue reading →

Twining around mailboxes and fence rows, morning glories’ delicate tendrils gently cling, holding up their fragile flowers to open up to the summer sun.  Later at dusk their colorful flowers wither shut, a poet’s metaphor for life and death.  Because of it’s attention … Continue reading →