My mother has a print out of those words hanging in her kitchen for the same reasons you would like a statue. I can walk into her house, all fired up about something or other and there they are...talking me back down again.

He is in our garden and has been .Then we take him in for the winter.
Do not think that or maybe hard to fine these words .But If I do.Will send it to you.Fredo

Good words for 9-11 memories. It's difficult for me to watch the tapes.

My mother had a statue of him to put in the yard, and I don't know what happened to it. She was going to make a little house for him to live in next to a sun dial and make a flower garden outside her sewing room window where she could see it while she sewed. Now St. Francis is AWOL and there is that huge ugly propane tank sitting in her little garden area. Everyone says paint it to look like an animal or something - what a dumb idea - then it'll just be some stupid big ugly tank painted to look like some stupid animal that isn't even indigenous to the area. No way is it ever going to fit into the scenery and not look like what it is: a 500 gallon propane tank. Painted, it'll be like lipstick on a pig - still a pig and more embarrassing for the attempt to make something out of it. Just sayin'.

Beautiful words. I carried the words of St. Frances with me all of the years that I was a social worker- both stanzas. I have a statue of him in my bedroom and in my yard.