Showing posts with label candles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label candles. Show all posts

Thursday, June 16, 2016

Orlando Memorial in SecondLife

Kip Ashbourne and Chaz Longstaff are inviting us to remember the men and women lost in the mass murder in Orlando on June 12th 2016.

In their invitation they say:
"Join us in coming together to sign a guest book and light a candle, and sharing some time and thoughts with your friends, neighbours and SL community.

To sign the guestbook, just drop a notecard in with one or two lines in it. Your words will automatically be written on the pages of the guestbook.

The memorial is open around the clock.

No donations, please.

Kip and Chaz"

The Orland Memorial - light a candle & sign the guestbook (SLurl)

Sunday, November 27, 2011

不要诅咒黑暗 - 点燃蜡烛

As we are moving into the two darkest months of the year. before and after the winter solstice, here on the top-of-the-World, we Swedes are following the advice of the ancient Chinese proverb "Don't curse the darkness - light a candle". (I used the simplified Han Chinese in the title of this post in the vain hope that you illiterates would understand.)

In fact Swedes light millions of candles to combat the darkness, starting on the first Sunday of Advent (today) until the twentieth day after Christmas eve (January 13th).

During this period every decent Swede - and some not so decent Sweden Democrats also - places a lit candlestick or a star in almost every window of their homes to light up the darkness. It does help!

And we burn a lot of ordinary candles as well, but we never ever leave a burning candle in an empty room. (The last part was a paid public service announcement.)