I missed the roll call for AJ. So, from Longwood University in Farmville Va, thoughts and prayers to everyone who Loved this young woman. Fly free, Lancerstrong!
Here is the updated tally of the roll call through post 776. It's beautiful! So far, 151 have checked in from 34 states, 7 specific countries circling the globe, and two from somewhere in Europe. Thank you all! My apologies for any errors (not that I think you're going to check my math). Please add your love if you are just arriving. And if you didn't join in, we know you were here with us, and your love is just as much appreciated as those listed below. Well done wonderful Websleuthers.
:loveyou:
2 Europe (specific countries not listed)
1 Switzerland
1 Portugal
1 UK
1 Northern Ireland
1 Australia
1 Japan
11 Canada
35 Virginia
5 Alabama
12 California
2 Tennessee
3 Iowa
3 Oregon
1 New Hampshire
4 Louisiana
9 North Carolina
2 Vermont
1 Maine
7 Texas
5 Florida
3 Illinois
5 Pennsylvania
5 New York
2 Minnesota
1 South Carolina
4 Ohio
2 Kansas
2 Georgia
3 Colorado
3 Washington
3 Arizona
2 Maryland
3 Kentucky
1 Oklahoma
1 Hawaii
1 Michigan
1 Mississippi
1 New Mexico
1 Nevada
1 Delaware
2 New Jersey
Gone From My Sight
I am standing upon the seashore. A ship, at my side,
spreads her white sails to the moving breeze and starts
for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength.
I stand and watch her until, at length, she hangs like a speck
of white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other.
Then, someone at my side says, "There, she is gone"
Gone where?
Gone from my sight. That is all. She is just as large in mast,
hull and spar as she was when she left my side.
And, she is just as able to bear her load of living freight to her destined port.
Her diminished size is in me -- not in her.
And, just at the moment when someone says, "There, she is gone,"
there are other eyes watching her coming, and other voices
ready to take up the glad shout, "Here she comes!"
And that is dying...
Henry Van Dyke
Sending Love and Prayers from Florida.
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