I finished a couple of Altair Designs pages for Mom's memorial scrapbook.  For journaling or other craft purposes, note that the squarish ones leave a good bit of blank space at the bottom of the page.  You can trim if you want smaller or more decorate margins, but if you leave it, you've got room to put another image or a journaling block there.

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Yesterday I started assembling the memorial scrapbook for my mother, who passed away on December 26, 2021.  These photos document some of my materials and construction process.

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These are text blocks and scanned text from the memorial board for my mother, who passed away on December 26, 2021.  See the earlier mockups and the finished pictures.

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These are the finished pictures of the memorial board for my mother, who passed away on December 26, 2021.  They show the full-color photos (and a few black-and-white ones) along with headers and text blocks.  See the earlier mockups and the text blocks.

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I have been constructing a memorial board for my mother, who passed away on December 26, 2021.  See the finished pictures and the text blocks.

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Ron Goulart has passed away.  He wrote an enormous list of things; I think I've read a few, long since.

Carry on the work:
Understanding Comics
How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy

Michael Lang has passed away.  He was best known for cofounding Woodstock.  Peace out, dude.

Carry on the work:
* Learn to play guitar.
* Let out your inner bohemian.
* Be the peace you want to see in the world.
* Remember Woodstock with movies, books, and music.

This is today's freebie, inspired by a prompt from
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I like death escorts and death deities, so I write about death -- and Death -- fairly often. I am collecting some of those here after my mother passed away on 12/26/21.

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Activist Desmond Tutu has passed away. Among his accomplishments, he helped bring down apartheid in Africa.

Carry on the work:
* Anti-Racism Action Plan
* Nonviolent Community and Peacebuilding Handbook
* Charities for Africa