The Garden of Hope

[TxDoc]

Thank you so much for sharing!

[crazycanuck]

That's so cool!

Pardes, remind me..is Delaware the smallest state in the US? Also, what is Delaware famous for?

[pardes]

Delaware is not the smallest state, Rhode Island is.

I'm not sure what Delaware is famous for. DuPont money perhaps.

Historically, it was a Delawarean, Caesar Rodney, why cast the final passing vote for the Declaration of Independence. Rodney rode eighty miles through a thunderstorm on the night of July 1, 1776, dramatically arriving in Philadelphia "in his boots and spurs" on July 2, just as the voting was beginning.

A mountain bike would have been faster and then we'd be celebrating the 4th of July on the 3rd.

[OakLeaf]

Pardes, that brought tears to my eyes. Thanks for sharing.

And, Delaware was the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution!

[Tuckervill]

The keens and ululating of centuries of women who lost their babies hung in the air from the collective consciousness.

Oh my.

Thank you.

Karen

[TahoeDirtGirl]

Pardes thank you for the beautiful pictures.

My grandmother died in Christiana Hospital of cervical cancer on my birthday in 1993. And I believe where this memorial is was where she could look out her window and was watching someone plant bulbs when she was in there the fall before she passed away.

It reminds me however, that women need to remind one another to take care of ourselves as well as each other. She avoided Pap smears like I avoid taxes and was diagnosed too late to do anything about it essentially (she was misdiagnosed at first with a yeast infection).


It's very strange the way the universe works. I just saw this in the paper a while ago and didn't realize where it was situated until I asked my sister about it.

[emily_in_nc]

That was so beautiful it made me cry, pardes.

Thanks for posting....