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A Mystery of Eternal Love
Over 50,000 flowers have been placed on the grave of a young girl who died almost 145 years ago in Freiburg, Germany. Who places them there, no one knows. Every morning, under summer's sun and winter's snow, a fresh flower has been placed on the grave of Caroline Christine Walter.Caroline Walter and her beloved older sister Selma moved to Freiburg to live with their grandmother after[...]
Randy Pausch - The Last Lecture
Here is a hypothetical question: What would you say if you knew you were going to die and had a chance to sum up everything that was most important to you? An old age question that had been posed to the annual speaker of a lecture series at Carnegie Mellon University, Dr. Randy Pausch, who was a computer sciences professor at CMU. Randy had been diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer[...]
Butterfly Memorials
The act of a ceremonial releasing of doves at special events has been practised for centuries. Around 2900 BC Egyptians would announce the arrival of important guests by releasing pigeons from incoming ships. Many people are looking for more personalized ways to say goodbye and sometimes that means taking old traditions and tweaking it to fit the personality of the deceased. If you[...]
Five People You Meet in Heaven
"There are no random acts. We are all connected. You can no more separate one life from another, than you can separate a breeze from the wind."The world is full of stories, but the stories are all one. In his best selling book, "The Five People you Meet in Heaven", Mitch Albom attempts to show how every life affects another in a thought provoking story of a man, who in death, learns the[...]
Horseshoes are the Door of Life
In North America the horseshoe is by far the most well-known good luck charm, we see it constantly represented in jewelry, wall hangings and even furniture. But why do we consider this symbol one of such good luck? Even though many of us are fond of this symbol, most are not completely familiar with the origins and symbolism connected to the horseshoe.Traditionally, horseshoes have been[...]
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