Be kind

RIC_6307-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Be kind to each other.

That is one of the key ingredients in being a good friend.

Thank God for good friends. 

David G. Hallman, August Farewell: The Last Sixteen Days of a Thirty-Three-Year Romance

Unbroken

RC1_5147, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

We are broken-hearted, but we are not broken.  ...

We will not allow our fear to break us. Evil can kill individuals, but it can never defeat a whole people.

Jens Stoltenberg,

     Prime Minister of Norway on the massacre on July 22, 2011

Remembering

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Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

In 1991, the Canadian Parliament declared December 6 a National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.

We remember in horror on this day, on December 6, 1989, the loss of 14 young women, students at l’École Polytechnique in Montreal, murdered because they were women. Every year, we speak their names and the names of too many other victims of violence.

We honour the lives of these 14 women:

Geneviève Bergeron, 21;

Hélène Colgan, 23;

Nathalie Croteau, 23;

Barbara Daigneault, 22;

Anne-Marie Edward, 21;

Maud Haviernick, 29;

Barbara Klucznik Widajewicz, 31;

Maryse Laganière, 25;

Maryse Leclair, 23;

Anne-Marie Lemay, 27;

Sonia Pelletier, 23;

Michèle Richard, 21.

Annie St-Arneault, 23;

Annie Turcotte, 21.

Beauty

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Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

My soul can find no staircase to heaven unless it be through earth's loveliness.

Michelangelo

A Time to Remember

RCC_3690
Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

In 1991, the Canadian Parliament declared December 6 a National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.

We remember in horror on this day, on December 6, 1989, the loss of 14 young women, students at l’École Polytechnique in Montreal, murdered because they were women. Every year, we speak their names and the names of too many other victims of violence.

We honour the lives of these 14 women:

Geneviève Bergeron, 21;

Hélène Colgan, 23;

Nathalie Croteau, 23;

Barbara Daigneault, 22;

Anne-Marie Edward, 21;

Maud Haviernick, 29;

Barbara Klucznik Widajewicz, 31;

Maryse Laganière, 25;

Maryse Leclair, 23;

Anne-Marie Lemay, 27;

Sonia Pelletier, 23;

Michèle Richard, 21.

Annie St-Arneault, 23;

Annie Turcotte, 21.