One Small Tribute.....

You don't have to have a religious bone in your body to appreciate the beauty, grandeur, construction and history of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. If you've seen it's magnificent facade, walked around the grounds, gone inside to marvel at the stained glass and statuary you know you've trod where hundreds of thousands have gone before you. Footsteps of the faithful, footsteps of the curious, footsteps of the mighty and footsteps of the impoverished....all echo in its chambers.

To know that this building is burning is to know that we are losing a precious piece of creative genius, a precious piece of history.

We've been lucky enough to go to Paris twice and visited Notre Dame while we were there. I didn't go because I'm catholic because I'm not. I didn't go because I'm a person living a faith based life because I'm not. I just went to see it.....to experience it.....to appreciate it.

And I did.....appreciate it. I felt the presence of the workers who created it and of the faithful who hold it so dear. I appreciated it as an unforgettable Paris icon.  And to think that it is burning is just so very sad.....for all of us.