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A little garden,
Fragrant and full of roses,
The path is narrow
And a little boy walks along it.

A little boy, a sweet boy,
Like a growing blossom.
When the blossom comes to bloom,
The little boy will be no more.
~ Franta Bass

Franta Bass was born in Brno on September 4, 1930. He was deported to Terezin concentration camp, just southwest of Prague, Czechoslovakia on December 2, 1914. Fifteen thousand children died at Terezin. Franta died in Auschwitz on October 28, 1944. He was fourteen years old.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon dedicates his 27 January 2012 Holocaust Remembrance Day message to children. On this day the world remembers the 1.5 million Jewish children and tens of thousands of other children who were murdered by the Nazis and their supporters. The best tribute to the memory of these children is an ongoing effort to teach the universal lessons of the Holocaust, so that no such horror is visited upon future generations.

"Only take heed, and keep your soul diligently,
Lest you forget the things which your eyes have seen,
And lest they depart from your hearts all the days of your life;
Make them known to your children and your children's children."
Deuteronomy 4:9

... amish style ;-)

"You can't get too much winter in the winter."
~ Robert Frost

"A thin, steady snow
still builds into drifts, and blurs
all the edges smooth."
~ Charles de Lint

"Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things,
but just look what they can do when they stick together."
~ Vesta M. Kelly

Soooo cold! It's -15°C out there! Brrrrr!