Reply #4: "No Man Is An Island" I think it is good to care but I wish sometimes

[Trevelyan]

the people who build the shrines would give to charities who help children and/or the homeless. But given the sickening Republican corruption of the Red Cross and other money laundering charities, it is very possible that the people intended would not get the money and help.

People have always built churches and shrines. Jacob after the visitation by the angel made a shrine by putting a few stones together (beautiful hymn about this "Nearer My God To Thee" sung by those going down on the Titanic" later when Jacob found the stones again, he built a more worthy altar and others in the Bible, almost pre-history did the same. Cathedrals and small shrines like those wrote about by D.H. Lawrence in his three versions of "Christs in the Tyrol" might help you understand.

People without art training would paint a picture where some tragedy had happened like a person drowning and put it on a tree where it happened and Lawrence wrote of a glass box with a little handmade doll of Christ at Gethsemene with a red cloak that he could imagine a peasant woman stitching .

The "Christs" of the title were the many handcarved crucifixes at crossroads, high in the mountains with a little straw hut over it but open in front and in Hawthorne's "The Marble Faun" he writes how a young man guilty of murder (of an evil man but still was haunted by it) visits many of these villager built small shrines and how it comforts him. And how Hilda and Miriam find great comfort in the small churches and the art work and in the great cathedral in Italy. Also a good book if you really want to understand this deep human impulse for what DH Lawrence called "Mememto Mori".