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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUKqG4KEKcY

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Radiant, Kathy….

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I like how you got the rainbow Tai

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Hi Jenny

This looks like an excellent place to visit, can you tell us something about it please..
Tai

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This is the Bahai House of worship in Samoa. Its beautiful. Here is a photo of the ceiling inside.

Jenny

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Love this.

That is a ceiling I could lay beneath for hours on end!

What a fine place to have visited!

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Hi Jenny

I have one of those lead crystal balls on the window ledge and couldn't resist taking the rainbow light as it stopped over the candle…

I love the ceiling and the whole feeling of the place, great…
Tai

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Here is a Flutter By - - By myself!  Isn't it a fine wee insect!?

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I do like it. Where was that taken?

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I believe this one was taken in Zante, Greece. 

My apologies for being vague.  I really should catalogue my photos better!

Here is another 'flutter by' for you!  (Taken Edinburgh Scotland, for sure!)

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That one is stunning. Like a beautiful lady dressed in black and red. Love flutterbys. Looks like the one in Greece is on a bougainvillia flower. They grow really well here in Australia in the warmer areas. Do you photograph butterflies often? Do you have any blue and white ones?

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Tharlam would also make a fabulous nature photographer - the butterflies are amazing close-ups!

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Aw, shucks!

I've gone all pink 'bout the cheeks. 

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bump

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butterfly love……..

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Beautiful!  Tai, you'd make a fabulous nature photographer…

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Very serene pictures… such a pleasure playground!!!

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beautiful Kes…….

We are all butterflies
floating serenely in the light
awaiting our next stage of life………

It's all perfect……………
All is well and full of beauty…………

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…for Taikunping's beautiful butterfly essence…  Namasté

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Thanks Kes……

Butterfly love
Tai

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When I was 17 I became a nurse and saw the first dying and death of my life. A man I had been caring for some months died. He had been in much pain. On seeing him soon after his dying I was struck by the sense that his body was a cocoon and his spirit had fled. His body was not him so I felt no horror as I expected I might. His cocoon of a body was completely empty.
Then another patient died in my presence and I became suddenly aware of his spirit leaving his body and rapidly moving to a corner of the room. There was a wind and the physical sense of something rushing past me or even through me. Since then when people I have known pass over I get the sensation of them leaving accompanied with the wind blowing through me at that moment. This is a physical thing. I've had lights flicker and sway in this breeze. I feel they are saying goodbye on there way through.

So for me the butterfly is a metaphor for the spirit when it has been released from the bonds of the physical body. The blue and white butterfly and blue and white feather have come to me in dreams. In a dream once a priest enamelled a blue and white butterfly onto the left side of my partially shaved head. It was a powerful dream. In another dream I was drawn up into space and looking in at the top of a vortex I saw a blue and white feather spinning around.

Butterflys and flutterbys

Jenny

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Great stuff, Jenny!

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Hi Jenny, your post, confirms my feeling…….

Love Tai

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Lovely….such a gentle picture. 

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Hey blue

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My favorite wee punk penguin. 

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Hi penguins - hope you like the snow …….
(its really the top of my table outside with the umbrella hole in the middle!)
Love Tai
ps love your hair style!

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Yes, Tai, I guess Its not a new thought but for me at 17 it was totally new. I love that flower, what is that?

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Jenny

Thanks for sharing your heart-warming experiences with the dying, Jenny.  I was with my mother when she died.  She never seemed to accept that she was dying and became more and more reserved as she approached death.  But I sensed a change a few hours before she died - at the time it seemed like a surrender.  She began looking past us as if she saw someone she recognized.  She was clearly focused on someone or something that none of us could see.  She hadn't spoken for a long while and startled us when she quietly said, “I hope they hurry up.”  She died a few minutes later.  For years I wondered what she was looking at or if she was hallucinating or what…
Last year, because Tim's stepdad was dying, Tim's aunt recommended to us the book Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying by Maggie Callanan, a Hospice nurse, and Patricia Kelley.  It answered so many of my questions - I wonder if you've read it?  I now think perhaps my mother was focused on someone she knew who was welcoming her spirit.  I definitely have the sense that my mother has been gently leading me along my current spiritual journey, using synchronicity and nature to teach me what I want to know…  She was a bird lover and for a few summers I had a little group of six mourning doves comforting me as I gardened.  I love your butterfly metaphor.

Barbara

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Lovely, ~KES!

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
~ Maya Angelou

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I have a daughter, Shannon, who zoo keeps. I will post some of her pictures.

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whew… The zoo pix are great!  I got confused thinking all of the pix were gone but when I looked under recent posts I found these.  Thanks for showing us the zoo!  Its too cool!!! Please thank her for showing these.

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loving the animal pictures, especially the expression on the giraffe's face and the beautiful white fox?
Love Tai

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Mac, thanks so much for the zoo pictures - your daughter looks so happy working with them!
Kathy, I loved that story about the baby hippo and 130 year old tortoise in Kenya after the tsunami waves disrupted their lives!  That was about three years ago…  I wonder what has become of them?  Here's another link: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4754996

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Gorgeous, love it

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Hi Jenny

It's an ice plant, some sort of sedum - do you want a cutting! - it roots really easily.  It even looks good when the flowers die down and the heads turn reddy brown.  Butterflies and moths really love them…

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