Friday, July 17, 2009

Skywatch Friday



A couple of years ago, to celebrate the
21st birthday of a very special young man who 
didn't make it quite that far, his family 
wrote messages of love on balloons and 
we sent them up to him.

8 comments:

  1. Reading the few lines of your post gave me "la chair de poule", and it is not only because we've lost 10°C in 10 hours !
    I find the idea incredibely beautiful and so full of hope and serenity ! (hope I get the right words)

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  2. Merci, Marylene—a mon avis, you got the words entirely right.

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  3. What a beautiful idea, Alexa! Hope and serenity, as Marylène said.

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  4. my family & I do this every year for my brother-in-law. It is a very powerful way to remember a loved one.
    You captured the moment perfectly in this picture Alexa.

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  5. Sad and hopeful and hits too close to home for me to comment properly. For all those children who never got to be adults . . .

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