Never Forget

Today Julie Hernandez shares her flags with us.

" I am an artist and art teacher in North Texas. My students and I are starting off the New Year by making prayer flags. First, I wanted to send this one I just finished.  It is a prayer flag for Sandy Hook Elementary, which is still deeply on my heart.  The decorative skulls reference the Dia de los Muertos tradition of remembering and celebrating the lives of those who have passed.  And the way they are cropped and positioned created a perfect area of negative space for the names of the 26 victims to fit.  This flag is a tribute to them, and a prayer for their friends and family left behind.  In fact, it is a prayer for all of us."

More about Julie and the work she is doing can be found at jaeartworks.blogspot.com

PRAYER FLAGS FOR NEWTOWN, CT

Annie Wade here. After seeing Diana Trout's call on Facebook to make Prayer Flags for Newtown...I made the flags shown on this post...and blogged about it here.

Diana has since teamed up with Leighanna Light who also has a facebook page...The Hope Flag Project.

You can send flags which will be delivered to Sandy Hook...or hang them in your own back yard.

This is such a worthy project.

I want to take this opportunity to thank Jane LaFazio,
Diana Trout and Leighanna Light.

From the bottom of my heart...Thank You.

keeping you in my heart

Margarita Korioth

For Sandy Hook Elementary School

Jane LaFazio. For Sandy Hook, Connecticut.

Remembering Them

“So don't be frightened, dear friend, if a sadness confronts you larger than any you have ever known, casting its shadow over all you do. You must think that something is happening within you, and remember that life has not forgotten you; it holds you in its hand and will not let you fall. Why would you want to exclude from your life any uneasiness, any pain, any depression, since you don't know what work they are accomplishing within you?"

---Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

Linda Miller here, this flag is shared in honor of the recent tragedy... see more on my blog.

flags for Sandy Hook Elementary School

Donna Johnson created this prayer flags for Sandy Hook Elementary School...and for all of us who are hurting.