A brightly blooming Poinsettia on a balcony at the end of January says it all.  This journey has stretched us beyond the trails of discovery into community.  The flowers a blooming statement that things are unexpected here.  The pictures and comments simply augment the remembrances.  Watching news stories of the diaspora around the world creates moments of anguish.  The vistas, flowers, water and stones harmonize to create a world of remembrance.

On the upper deck of the housing project the palms wave in the wind as the ripples cross the pool deck.  The water finger-stewing warm.  The clouded sky filtering the tropical sun. Conversations ricocheting across the deck.

The 30 degree vista from the deck creates a background for the journey beyond the road.  Each person savoring the vistas and involved in the conversations.  As each values the other in the building of community an understanding of “all-right” emerges.  Looking at the city, the world, our lives from this vista creates a detachment that permits involvement.

Enfolding people, food, water, time and genuine love builds a community that can turn any moment into a jazz concert.  The images capture connection and the visual art of Jazzamoart punctuates the heat of the rhythms of life.

                 

Every event that occurs in a chosen family is memorialized in the monument of stones of remembrance.  The tide, the restorations, the compassion reaches beyond every cobbled road into the next day, week, month, celebration.  Telling stories of remembrance, stories of experience and building strength with and for each other builds hope for the journey.