The Freedom Tower

There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. 

 ― Edith Wharton

From a whirlwind trip to New York City.  

This is the Freedom Tower at One World Trade Center (1WTC)

We visited the 911 memorial and St. Paul's Chapel. 

Artsy Version - HERE 

Let Go and Be Free

Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free.

― Thích Nhất Hạnh

Tufted Titmouse - Bisset Park - Radford, Virginia

Freedom Isn't Free

Friendship, Flag and Freedom

Friends that drove a LONG way to be with our son at his graduation. It's always nice to have family at a special event like this - but I think it's even more special to have your friends.

Three quotes for today - One on Friendship, One on our Flag, and One on our Freedom.

Happy 4th of July!

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ev'ry heart beats true

'neath the Red, White and Blue,

~George M. Cohan

And I'm proud to be an American,

where at least I know I'm free.

And I won't forget the men who died,

who gave that right to me.

~Lee Greenwood

With a Heavy Heart

"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves;
and, under a just God, can not long retain it" ~Abraham Lincoln

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible
will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ John F. Kennedy

"Let freedom reign.
The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement." ~ Nelson Mandela

My heart is heavy tonight with all that is going on in Iran.
My thoughts and prayers are with the Iranian people.