Baldwin Brothers Funeral & Cremation Society

“It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,”
Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations, photo by Jim B of NSB

“If you are faced with a mountain, you have several options.

You can climb it and cross to the other side.

You can go around it.

You can dig under it.

You can fly over it.

You can blow it up.

You can ignore it and pretend it’s not there.

You can turn around and go back the way you came.

Or you can stay on the mountain and make it your home.”
Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration, photo by Sarah B

“The smaller the creature, the bolder its spirit.”
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem, ❤️ photo by Jim B of NSB

“Donde termina el arco iris,
en tu alma o en el horizonte?

Where does the rainbow end,
in your soul or on the horizon?”
Pablo Neruda, The Book of Questions, photo by Jim B of NSB

“The world is a skyscraper! Don't always stay on the same floor! Go upstairs, go downstairs; visit the lives of other tenants! Visit eagles; visit mushrooms!”
Mehmet Murat ildan, photo by Sarah B

“The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.”
Confucius, photo by Jim B of NSB

“Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.”
Khalil Gibran, Sand and Foam, photo by Sarah B

“Every life holds an epic tale, even if no one alive remembers it.”
Greg Melville, photo by Sarah B

Sherif spent the day providing information on the ease and benefits of preplanning!

“Promise Yourself

To be so strong that nothing
can disturb your peace of mind.
To talk health, happiness, and prosperity
to every person you meet.

To make all your friends feel
that there is something in them
To look at the sunny side of everything
and make your optimism come true.

To think only the best, to work only for the best,
and to expect only the best.
To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others
as you are about your own.

To forget the mistakes of the past
and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
To wear a cheerful countenance at all times
and give every living creature you meet a smile.

To give so much time to the improvement of yourself
that you have no time to criticize others.
To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear,
and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.

To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world,
not in loud words but great deeds.
To live in faith that the whole world is on your side
so long as you are true to the best that is in you.”
Christian D. Larson, photo by Jim B of NSB

“Just because you can explain it doesn't mean it's not still a miracle.”
Terry Pratchett, photo by Jim B of NSB

“The place where the sky and ocean meet is where all the miracles takes place. You are part of this miracle.”
Hiral Nagda, photo by Jim B of NSB

“You should expect visitors when you leave the door open.”
Anthony T. Hincks, photo by Jim B of NSB

“Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow…”
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, photo by Jim B of NSB

“This morning, the sun endures past dawn. I realise that it is August: the summer's last stand.”
Sara Baume, A Line Made By Walking, photo by Jim B of NSB

“Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.”
Pam Brown, photo by Jim B of NSB

I missed you quietly today. So quietly that no one noticed.

I missed you as I climbed out of bed and as I brushed my teeth; when I waited at the lights on the drive into work and as I heard the rain outside my window.

I missed you as I ordered lunch and as I kicked off my shoes when I got home; as I switched off the lights and climbed into bed for the night.

I missed you without tears or noise or fanfare.
But oh how I felt it.

I felt it in the morning, at lunchtime, in the evening and at night. I felt it as I woke, as I waited, as I worked. I felt it at home, on the road, in the light, in the dark, in the rain.

I felt it in every one of those moments, each one sitting heavier and heavier as the weight of me missing you kept growing and growing.

Yes, I missed you so quietly today.

But I felt it so loudly.

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Becky Hemsley Poetry 2024
📸: Unknown

“Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted, creativity grows, and legends bloom; faith in oneself is the rain that cultivates a hero to endure the storm, and bare the genesis of a new world, a new forest.”
Mike Norton, White Mountain, photo by Jim B of NSB

“Now I'm no biologist, but it seems to make a lot of sense that slow lives, as well as being enjoyable, are long lives. One only has to think of the example of the tortoise for proof of this theory from the animal world.”

Tom Hodgkinson, photo by Sarah B

“The most visible joy can only reveal itself to us when we've transformed it, within.”

Rainer Maria Rilke, photo by Jim B of NSB

“This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.”

Rainer Maria Rilke, photo by Jim B of NSB

“When I make up my mind, I act. If I speak, what I say, I will do. If the hail rattles, let the flowers be crushed. The oak of the forest will lift up its head to the sky and the storm, towering and unscathed.”

Osceola, photo by Sarah B

“When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.”
George R.R. Martin, photo by Jim B of NSB

“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
Elie Wiesel, photo by Jim B

“When a pivot is predestined on the stone tablet of your life story, there is often an inexplicable ease to it. It feels otherworldly, from an Almighty source beyond your frail humanity.”
Cicely Tyson, Just as I Am, photo by Jim B of NSB