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Beautiful image Rosie, Congratulations on your feature! My fav African animal...
Congrats on your feature Rosie! Such magnificent, if awkward-looking, creatures! I love'um!
Congrats on your feature! and thanks for the notification.
OH GOODY! MY WORK FROM THE LIGHT OF LIGHT GROUP HAS BEEN FEATURED BY HOST ALLI ASHTON AT THE BLUE FRIDAY LOUNGE!! THANKS ALLI!!!
Most welcome Rosie!!! You are such a HOOOOOOOT! LOVE YOU!
beautiful composition
Congratulation on your LIGHT-OF-LIGHT feature! Such a touching piece.
Your image is a wonderful lament and with the sad story make a powerful statement, Rosie.
IT'S JUST INCREDIBLE!!!! The beauty and grief come together...
Dear Momot XXX
oh boy rosie my heart breaks for these kind creatures knowing the absolute fear they must have experienced. it was difficult for me to read. i am so sorry to learn of this. i cannot understand why. giraffes and elephants are 2 of my most favorite animals. most gentle and most large and so knowing. i do hope they find those who created such terror. sad...
I know it is difficult my friend, and I know you yourself have picked up some very difficult topics too... all in the hope of an answer. xxx
It's broken my heart.I have wished many times that humans stopped caging animals. I never imagined such cruelty as what these vandals have done.
Laureen it is a reality I hate to face, but hate more to hide from. Animals around us are at risk whether caged or free... we had some terrible Swan Murders here in Melbourne a couple of years back...I still have not recovered from that grief and shame... I search within for an answer to this, and hope some way to open people's hearts more to our fellow creatures xxx
ah.. so sad...
awww....so sad..made me cry
Dear Helene XXX
Truly heartbreaking..... Beautiful tribute Rosie.
Oh Rose... this just breaks my heart. How can anyone be so cruel? Beautiful tribute.
You were telling me about this on Friday Rosie, How bloody terrible, I hope they find the people responsible, but it won't bring these beautiful creatures back, must have been so terrifying for this lovely placid animal, it's bad enough that they have to be locked up and not free - my heart is sad.... I love this Rosie, a very beautiful tribute, your big heart shows in this wonderful work of art :o)x
Fabulous image; yet, such a sad story. We have some very sick and deranged people who need serious help.
OUTSTANDING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This may be one of the best abstract works of your I have seen yet Rosie, the movement and color really stand out and flow well, and it becomes all the more poignant after reading your description.
Great photo Rosie, but the treatment of the animals stinks
I've actually looked at this several times and just didn't want to comment just yet--it made me entirely too sad. I will never understand the subspecies that are cruel to people, much less animals. But it really breaks my heart. Beautiful tribute to them, Rosie. I love your heart.
That is really sad news.
so sad buti love this!
such a sad and heartbreaking story, a beautiful piece of art to put it into our memories
Thanks so much Paula- I think it is important we know this goes on xxx
Brilliant wor my friend! People who do these awhul things... I can't understand what kind of people they are... very sad!
Dear Igor, absolutely sad.
I appreciate your visitxxx
OMG dear Rosie...you ARE the great Artist & the great Human! You made us stop & cry...thank you!
Dear Lee- I missed you so much- thanks for opening your heart to these beings. xxx
IMPECABLE TU TRABAJO ROSIE !! MARAVILLOSO..ENCANTA.. FELICITACIONES.. CARIÑOS..
Abrazos dear Angie!!
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Thanks so much Alli XXX
How awful!!! Those poor giraffes. :( Your work is lovely as ever Rosie, but oh how sad.
Dear M...thanks so much xxx
No response?
I feel very strong about what happened. I hope the word Hate did not offend you, Rosie, I just felt very upset about this.
Hi Alli- don't know why my first reply didn't come through... I feel pretty similar, but hate is no shortcut to understanding and changing the way things are... which is what I am more about. xxx
... i think heart-broken and devastated ... more than hate for me, for sure... and then very motivated, I have to say.... to raise awareness, that we all have a soul...xxx
yes, maybe say an extreme dislike is better
...people who do these things, often have enough hate in their lives... hate breeds ahte... i worry about that cycle.... back later xxx
You are the MASTER!!
You make me blush dear Jose! Thanks so much :)
Beautiful and sad as Lianne said, stunning image Rose, those poor girls should never have been there in the 1st place !
Berns, you are absolutely right...what to do when we have taken most of their habitats... too late to go back..?? We must care for the ones that are left. ....xxx
Oh Rosie this just breaks my heart. And what a tender, touching image you've given us to bring this sad news "home" to us. It's just incredibly sad to think of how callous we have become...bad enough our inhumanity towards each other but to hurt animals who can not fight back is just unconscionable. I don't know what we can do my dear friend...except to focus our energy on awakening all about the truth that everything is connected. xox
My dear friend.... it tells me the sad story of who our own species is... and to strip any living thing of their souls, just so we can then deprive them of their rights.... it tears me to shreds... thanks so much for coming here and really feeling this xxxxxxx
if you do the crime , you should suffer the rest of your time
I think Farah there will always be the psychoptahs... and those of us who care, really have a responsibility to care , and to be realistic about the threats to the ones who cannot care for themselves...xxx
you actually got me to shed tears , i can't stand any kind of animal cruelty , what happened to the niceties of the inquisition period ,
Dear Farah- if tears can move us to do more for the vulnerable ones among us, then it is important to cry them xxx
That's absolutely despicable. This tribute is great though.
Dear Johanna- I appreciate so much your support.
Oh how sad.....your picture is a wonderful tribute
Karen thanks so much xx
It's terrible how we constantly hurt eachother, but to hurt defenseless animals too? What were these people trying to prove? Why vandalize a zoo? Its like vandalizing a Day Care or a Hospital. I agree frederiqueroy70. Suchva tragedy. Thanks for making such a lovely tribute Rosie. It's people like you that just might save Humanity.
Elie we can only do it together.... this is really symbolic of so much that goes on, in itself so despicable, but absolutely running deeper... thanks so much for connecting to this - it means so much to me xxx
A beautiful homage to such people beings. The accompanying story is terribly sad, not only for the animals involved but for the deprived people who would do such a thing. Our disconnection from nature may well be our undoing.
Our disconnection... from nature, from each other, from our own nature..... dear Fred... you got it in the heart , no surprise xxxxxxxxxx
That's so strange... I wrote "people beings" instead of "beautiful beings"... that's Freudian slip if ever I saw one!
... what's the difference... absolutely xxx
and sad for those people who did this, how truly disconnected they are with themselves and others and like gravity affects all in it's path that is very sad too.
Heartbreaking. Your tribute is sublime Rosie, the news however angers me to no end. How can we be soooo cruel? XXXXXXXXXXXXX
Dear Ramon, something like this... violates us all... we are all one heart beating xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
So true my dear Rosie. Lianne and I were discussing connectedess of a sort on my latest post. It is something I come to realize more and more each day. I love the way you phrased that. "we are all one heart beating" XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXx
Sad story ... lovely tribute work.
Cathy, thanks so much.... it is very sad xxx
I hate that, Sorry but that is the word I will use. As strong as they are to vandalize the zoo and this happens it's very upsetting. As if it is not enough to have them in a zoo! I know that is the only place for us to see them but oh man. They did as for this. Thanks for sharing Rosie.
They did not ask for this (sorry bad grammar day almost any day ;(
Hi Alli- don't know why my first reply didn't come through... I feel pretty similar, but hate is no shortcut to understanding and changing the way things are... which is what I am more about. xxx
so upsetting, such senseless behavior to these beautiful creatures
Joann, I have been crying all day, which is just useless... to keep any creature captive is an enormous responsibility.. whether a household or zoo. xxx
Sad
Dear Eitan- thanks so much for reading. We can never take these beautiful creatures for granted...xxx
Posted by tadiw on March 06, 2013
Great !! :))
Posted by richardpm on March 02, 2013
Very nicely done!
Posted by charliebeck on November 08, 2012
Insanely amazingly wonderful.
Posted by rodeorose on November 08, 2012
A BIG HUG dear Charlie------ this one broke my heart like nobody's business xxxxxxxxxxx
Posted by vigor on October 04, 2012
That is such a disheartening story, but this work is a wow!!! Thank you for giving these animals their 15 min. of fame, their deaths were not in vain!
Posted by toriyule on September 17, 2012
So sad people would even think to do something like this. A beautiful tribute.
Posted by julce on June 15, 2012
Very Interesting piece Rose!!!
Posted by rodeorose on June 16, 2012
Dear Julce!!!!!!!!!!!!! Happy weekend to you my friend XXXXXXX
Posted by dme123 on June 05, 2012
Oh wow!
Posted by jwatson on June 03, 2012
Fantastic work. Congratulations
Posted by frederiqueroy70 on June 02, 2012
Congratulations on your Light-of-Lights feature! (I see you are rapidly approaching the 10,000 mark! Woohoo 8-) )
Posted by naross on June 02, 2012
Rosie, this is stunning. What an awesome image, but an incredibly sad story. There's definitely something wrong with these people, so karma be theirs!