Love for London...

London was not what I thought it to be in my head....
(you know when you imagine something in your mind and then it's nothing like what you thought up at all?)
it was 896,034 times better.

I have been so blessed with being able to have been there twice....
last year (yes, above in my "super-touristy"- "look, I'm in a British-little-red-phone-booth" picture...
and once years before when I had short and very platinum, Marilyn Monroe -ish hair:

My heart was so sad to see the fires and looting in London on the internet today...and all the awful things that people were doing to stores and endangering people's lives by starting fires and tossing "homemade bombs" into cars and buildings...and all the looting.

(building set on fire in London)

People who have spent their lives running shops that are now burnt down and emptied of their goods by looters, children, probably terrified by what's happening, and the trail of destruction and hurt they are causing to innocent people and places...
makes me so sad...

 (a looter kicking a window in, in London)

I've never understood why anyone thinks "rioting or looting" helps solve anything. Like in LA, the Lakers win the basketball championship or whatever it's called and instead of being happy like normal people and celebrating, people start smashing windows, throwing rocks at buses, looting, starting fires! Why take any reason, whether good or bad and start ruining other people's property, starting fires and then looting- which is just stealing. Trying to hurt people by throwing rocks or whatever else people start doing. Or if you are upset with something, rioting and looting and starting fires is not going to solve or help anything, it's just going to ruin many people's lives, homes and livelihoods. 

"fools vent their full anger at once, but a wise man is calm in heart"

(my blurry, "artsy" picture of Big Ben)

London is an amazing, beautiful city that I don't even have proper words to describe it,

filled with wonderful people...

my heart goes out to everyone there....I am praying for you all there.

I love London. I felt like my life grew a little bit larger to hold onto what you feel like when you are there. Like you stepped back into a history book, a movie, a piece of time that felt royal, fancy and dripping with stories of amazing things. Like the cloppity sounds of walking on the sidewalks there felt different than anywhere else.

I am sending huge love from my heart to all my precious London eyes reading this...
and to all the precious eyes, everywhere else too...
I wish we could have a lovely afternoon tea together and all feel fancy....
if not for real...we can have a grand "tea in our minds" right now....
"would you like sugar in your tea?"...
sugar for your heart and prayers for all of London...kandee