Charlotte's Web

Call me a "sap" right from the start...I will totally own up to it!!! Charlotte's Web has always been a favorite of mine, whether be book or movie, animated or real person! When Shea was younger, we read every night (that was before "sucky homework" came into play!) and one of my most favorite books to read to her was Charlotte's Web. I read it to her twice and each time I just sobbed at the end when I knew it was Charlotte's time to pass away! By the third time, Shea could read herself and when we came to the end...she had to read it to me because I was just crying my eyes out! I just can't help it...I just get so choked up and I feel that even though it is a children's book per say, it just deals so beautifully with friendship, love and death. Being in medical for so many years, I have read so many books that deal with grief and death and I think by far Charlotte's Web shows how meaningful our lives can mean to each other. Anyway, I used the animated version of the movie in a chapel that I did at Shea's school last year. There is the cutest song that Fern sings to Wilbur that I just love! I thought this new "real life" version was done really well...and yes, I cried! Cried & cried did I! I loved it!

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Thomas A. Edison

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Albert Pike

Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blessings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.
John Muir