Hope is a good thing

There are no words to introduce this story. Ty Ziegel and Renee Kline personify the spirit of human endurance.

A Marine Wedding
Photo Courtesy: Nina Berman


The photograph can trigger may reactions. Sympathy, Compassion , Melancholy, Anger, Inceritude or even Pity.

Here's what struck me first...

Andy Dufresne: ... there are places in this world that aren't made out of stone. That there's something inside... that they can't get to, that they can't touch. That's yours

Ellis Redding: What're you talking about?

Andy Dufresne: Hope.

Years later, Ellis Redding thought of his dear friend....

"I have to remind myself
that some birds aren't meant to be caged, that's all.

Their feathers are just too bright
and when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice...

but still, the place you live
is that much more drab and empty that they're gone"