Beyond the gate lay rows of stones that are numbered!

Latch on Pine Woods Cemetery

We Live a Life of Numbers

The days lay numbered, 

One to thirty-one. 

The months lay numbered, 

One to twelve. 

Each its own, 

But part of all; 

Both numbers marking Summer and spring, 

Winter and fall.

The years lay numbered, 

One upon one. 

The children numbered, 

As daughters and sons.

The markers are numbered,

 In long somber rows, 

Showing the days that are numbered, 

From young until old.

The Shakers..Niskayuna - their home still a vision of the simple life!

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Waterveliet Shaker Village (Niskayuna)

Mother Ann Lee came here to find a new home for her "people".  The Shakers would indeed succeed and make many homes throughout the United States.

Ann is buried here and so are many of her followers, though each cemetery marker is the same.... and unless you read each stone you cannot find hers.

How simple and yet how fitting for those who treasured a simple life.  A life minus lust & temtations, simple and honest ...a life lived as a Gift to God!

Today we remember her and her followers....and perhaps today we need this simple lifestyle to come back and save the world from itself!