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In the First World War, red poppies quickly grew over the graves of the fallen soldiers at Ypres. This resulted in the poppy becoming one of the World’s most recognized memorial symbols for soldiers who have died in conflict. In Australia, Remembrance Day on the 11th November is also called Poppy Day. People wear a poppy in remembrance of all those young men who gave their lives for their countries. In New Zealand where I grew up we always wore…..
Now I am in the Autumn of my life, or as the late Dr Wayne Dyer would say ‘the afternoon of my life’, I am increasingly hearing of the passing of someone I know. Loss is a fact of life. We all lose loved ones. By the time we get to middle-age many of us are ‘orphans.’ I think about all the people throughout the world, who daily lose loved ones, sometime losing entire families. How do they cope? I don’t…..
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