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BY PAGE ANNE SMITH
Rappahannock News Contributing Writer
As one who knows first hand the value of hospice care, Postmaster Linda Butler of Washington joins Hospice of the Rapidan in welcoming the new hospice care commemorative stamp recently issued by the U.S. Postal Service. Mrs. Butler’s brotherin-law, Samuel Wayne Butler, died in the care of Hospice of the Rapidan on Feb. 15, 1997.
The self-adhesive 33 cent first class stamps honoring hospice care are currently available at Washington and other post offices across America. Phil Jordan, a resident of Falls Church and a veteran art directors for the Postal Service, volunteered to design the stamp due to the deaths in hospice of four family members and his best friend. His colorful design features a butterfly over a home, symbolizing life’s journey to its final stage.
Throughout the work, Jordan’s use of color gradations conveys a sense of transition. He selected a lighted window to symbolize “someone dying among family members rather than attached to tubes in a stainless steel environment,” he said.
The sweeping lawn before the house is taken from the 23rd Psalm, “The Lord is my shepherd...He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.”
The butterfly, a universal symbol of hospice care, was taken from the writings of Elisabeth Kubler Ross, who noticed it in the drawings of concentration camp children. It symbol
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