Honoring my ancestors

[fimbrethil]

Two very good things happened yesterday, One, I spent almost the entire day with fangorn which was happy making and battery charging. Two, I did the Easter cemetery run. At Christmas and Easter, I lay decorations on the graves of my family. Some of those people were gone before I was even a twinkle in my parent's eye. Like my great cousin Willie, who died

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[trinker]

I'm sorry you missed your Christmas round, and glad this one was so restorative for you.

I often wonder what traditions will persist in my children. (I think you'll understand when I say that I don't want them doing things because they were coerced into it, but that I also don't want childhood "donwannas" to result in a lost opportunity, either.)

[fimbrethil]

I do understand. I was not interested in going to cemeteries when I was a teenager. By the time Dad was was declining and ruminating over whether or not someone would carry on the tradition, I was ready to take it over. He didn't coerce me, I was willing. I think as we grow and mature, things take on new meaning and appeal.

[trinker]

I've been writing a series of letters to the kids, because I have a...morbid paranoia...that something will happen before they're old enough to be curious of their own accord.

[faraway66]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3e-zLKyZLw&playnext=1&list=PL9CA47525DF759E16

"listen more often to things than to beings...'tis the Ancestor's breath, when the fire's voice is heard, 'tis the Ancestor's breath in the voice of the waters...Those who have died have never, never left. The dead have a pact withthe living..."