Gathering River Rocks for cemetery

Today our Bahá'í community went to a beautiful river called "Piedras Negras" about an hour away from our home. We filled Marco's pickup truck with nice round stones for the purpose of lining the cemetery wall. After a delicious lunch we drove back to town and to the cemetery where all of us worked passing the stones over the fence and then placing them next to the wall by Dad and Alan's graves. When we were finished we all said prayers. I know this made Dad very happy on his birthday!



After I got home I took a hot bath in my new tube! Isn't it beautiful?

A view from the prayer room this morning

How fortunate am I to be blessed with such beauty all around me!

The children at CINAE

The children at CINAE who really opened their hearts to this "gringa"!

Our study group - amazing women with such beautiful minds and open hearts! (Dick you are included - didn't mean to leave you out)

Life-long Pioneers

These three men: Alan Pringle, Jere McKinney, and Bill Keillor, left their homes as very young men and dedicated their entire lives to the service of the Baha'i Faith in Latin America.

Their lifelong efforts were dedicated to raising the awareness of “the oneness of humanity” , the viability and beauty of “unity in diversity” and the undeviating faith that “world unity is not only possible, but inevitable”.

These remarkable men entered 'that garden', spoken of in the Baha'i Writings, and stayed to tend it until they were called home.

(Quotes are from the Baha'i World Faith: www.bahai.org)

Jaleh's Birthday

David, Gianni, Ela, and I celebrated Jaleh's birthday with dinner at Taj Mahal. Jaleh looked so beautiful and radiant as you can see in her picture. She's looking forward to a great year beginning with a great new job as assistant in an art gallery. She will also be teaching a yoga class in the evenings. Congratulations Jaleh!

Barney

The other day our dog, Barney, was playing with his friends (the neighbor's dogs) out in the yard and was vigorously defending a bone he had found. He latched onto it so tightly that it lodged between the back of his lower front teeth and jaw. David and I both tried to pry it loose but without success. So Barney was taken to our local vet. He had to sedate him and saw the bone off with an electric saw!

I love this video of Sasha quoting Abdu'l-Baha on kindness to animals and thought it appropriate for this blog.

"If an animal be sick, let the children try to heal it, if it be hungry, let them feed it. If thirsty, let them quench its thirst. If weary, let them see that it rests." 'Abdu'l-Bahá