\'Angels look down from on high.
May the Elephants remember your joys and document your progress and may the verses in this book soothe your soul and lift your spirit.\' Valerie Gascoyne.
May the Angels keep their careful watch, guiding your footsteps and carrying you when you fall.
In moments of great loss and heartbreak, poems can soothe and comfort and give form to silent emotions and difficult memories.
Lockdowns tear loved ones apart but communities rally together as never before.
It snuffs out precious lives before their time and yet permits wildlife to flourish in once busy cities.
As I write, a pandemic rages across the globe.
The recollections they hold enable us to become better people, to grow and learn, to develop and improve.
They are the great record-keepers, remembering everything exactly as it was.
Elephants store the memories of a lifetime, wordlessly documenting all that has been, never forgetting the smallest detail or emotion.
Their words soothe, comfort, guide and cajole us.
Watching carefully over those they are appointed to protect, they silently lead us through times of trial, shaping us into the people we are destined to be. \'Angels look down from on high
