Friday, November 11, 2011

The Act of Remembrance


The Act of Remembrance is from the fourth verse of the poem, "For The Fallen," written by Laurence Binyon in 1914 about the outbreak of the first world war. It has been carried forward through the years as a solemn pledge to remember Veterans. (From the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch No. 1 Charlottetown, PEI.)


Autumn on Prince Edward Island

Despite the summer being touch and go, the weather has been gorgeous through September and October. Lisa brought me on the 70-mile-long yard sale, a string of yard sales across King's County from Stratford to Wood Island. By the late afternoon, owners were desperate to get rid of their belongings, so we ended up each getting hand-crocheted blankets for 25 cents :)

We finally got to visit Auntie Vicki in her recently-purchased bakery in Hunter River. We had coconut meringue pie and cinnamon rolls with an afternoon cup of tea.
Over Thanksgiving, I met Sara's "buddy", Gahyeong, who is an international exchange student from Korea. After sending off the HCAC mission team at Wood Island, we stopped in Stratford to check out pumpkins and beautiful foliage. Afterwards, Gahyeong invited us to her host family's home for dinner. It was truly an experience of the warm generosity of Islanders. They didn't even ask who we were, they just said, "dig in!", ate and chatted with us, gave us tupperware and told us to take leftovers home for lunch. "As long as the tupperware makes it back to our house, we don't care how much you take!"

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