11-11 Veterans Day 2020

 



Did you know that 11/11 is Veterans Day? I have always been so fascinated by that.  I am not sure how being a Vet connects to the numerology meaning of 11/11, but I love it anyway!  So Happy 11/11 day!

Some of you may know that I am from a GoldStar family.  My brother was KIA in Iraq- U.S Marine.  I was hoping to take Alex to the Cemetery today.  However, I am very stressed about the amount of work that needs to be completed and turned in this week...so I am torn.  Plus Ani is here and needs support while healing from her surgery.  I always find that the best approach is to have a plan.

I always have a battle waging over what is expected of us from outside sources (Authority Figures) and what my heart feels...what my spirit wants...what the soul needs.  This is one of those times.  The work needs to be done...but the Vet needs to be acknowledged.  I feel it.  It's been a long time since we went to the cemetery.  We must go today.  It's hard for me to quantitate this for anyone else or explain "why".  I choose not to explain, just to answer the call.

The dead have a language too.  What are they saying to us?  Are we hearing it?

The RI Veterans Cemetery is a place of learning as much as it is anything else.  There is fresh air.  There are many monuments to events from history- some of which our kids will never actually hear about.  There are Memorials with information that enlightens you to these events.  In other words, it is not enough to tell someone about it...they must experience it for themselves.  It is a feeling.

This is more of a Kinesthetic experience and some people must be shown things in order to understand them.My daughter is very Auditory so she can whip up and emotional connection from hearing about things.  She is also very visual.  But my son...he is kinesthetic primarily.  He needs immersion.

I guess I just decided!

Thanks guys!

Since I plan to take photos while we are down there...I will finish this blog later and publish it then.  Thanks for tuning in.  Standby!

I am Back!  We did more than we thought we could and it is only 2:45pm.  As soon as we returned home, Alex got right into his schoolwork.  Annika was ok on her own for a few hours and now she gets to enjoy a nice cold milkshake, which she says is soothing her soar throat.

So we left today before 11am, and Alex and I stopped at the Library and then at the Bookstore to buy Magazines.  We are going to do some Vision-Boarding for a project.  After Barnes and Nobles, we headed to Exeter to the Rhode Island Veterans Cemetery.  There were ALOT of people there...they paraded through with flags in their vehicles and many people walked throughout reading the monuments.  Here was some of what we did while we were there:






While we walked around and observed, we saw the constant parade of flagged vehicles.  I took a video to remember it.  Sitting high above the scene on the WWII Memorial hill, my son began to ask a lot of questions about other people in our family who had died.  We decided to visit them too.  Here are some pictures of that:









I feel like we really accomplished some things today and I especially feel good about getting out of the house and experiencing things.  Now off to supervise schoolwork!

~Namaste

Lilac


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