Porthole

O museu da vida

PROMPT March 6th

If you were given five million dollars to open a museum,
what kind of museum would you create?

When I was in 6th grade we had to write an essay for our English exam. I wrote about a house surrounded by gardens with a lane of elms leading to it.

When I was 23 I stood in front of the Baha'i House of Worship seeing my dream made manifest.

I've dreamed since of me helping towns building their own sacred places.

I don't want a museum to the dead. I'd prefer a place for the living.

On one of the entry ways to the House of Worship in Wilmette, Illinois it is carved, "I have made death a messenger of joy to thee".

It's from The Hidden Words of Bahá’u’lláh (Arabic #32):

O SON OF THE SUPREME! I have made death a messenger of joy to thee. Wherefore dost thou grieve? I made the light to shed on thee its splendor. Why dost thou veil thyself therefrom?

The Dead have no need of this; it is meant for the living.

A museum of the living ... O museu da vida ...

... and I would surround it with gardens and protect it with trees "overshadowing all these regions".