When Death Comes

RCC_9838, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

... and I look upon time as no more than an idea,

and I consider eternity as another possibility,

and I think of each life as a flower, as common

as a field daisy, and as a singular ...

I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.

Mary Oliver, When Death Comes

Remembering Rhea Hildegarde Whitehead (January 22, 1936 - June 14, 2011) on a day of her funeral.

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International Women's Day

RCC_9841
Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

The true liberation of women cannot take place without the liberation of men. Basically the women's liberation movement is not only feminist in inspiration, it is also humanist. Let men and women look at one another honestly and try together to give society a new set of values.

Thérèse Casgrain (1896-1981), 100 Canadian Heroines: Famous and Frgotten Faces by Merna Forster