[death] All Souls'

[kaberett]

Yes right hello hi folk: this Saturday is All Souls'; doing my usual open-house thing, remembering my dead. Will provide food and candles from early afternoon onward. If you can (or might be able to) come but don't have our address or house access details, please send me a message. If you'd like me to light a candle for one of your dead, I'd be honoured. You are welcome to share as much or as little of their story with me (in comments; in private) as you'd like; I'll read it out to anyone else present as we light the candle.

I always light a candle at the end for the unknown(-to-me) & forgotten.

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[booksarelife]

Trigger warning for antisemitism, mass shootings:


Not personally my dead, but this past Sunday was the anniversary of the shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania last year so if you could light a candle for the victims, that would be much appreciated

[kaberett]

So done.

[booksarelife]

I wish I could come without having to cross an ocean

[cosmolinguist]

One year I will actually manage to be there. :)

As always, can you please light a candle for my brother. Later in November will make it fourteen years since he died, which is two-thirds of the entire time that he was alive. His name is Chris. I miss him in a million ways. I'm no good at being an only child; I was never supposed to do it.

[kaberett]

I have lit a candle for him.

[redsixwing]

You are excellent. <3

[ludy]

You are Awesome.

(What is a good way to be in touch privately?)

[kaberett]

PM or email x

[worlds_of_smoke]

Can you please light a candle for Joe? I've been thinking a lot about him lately and miss him so much. You know his story. Feel free to share as much or as little of it as you want.

Thank you so, so much.

[kaberett]

I have lit a candle. xx

[cosmolinguist]

Thinking of you and your loss too. <3

[shanaqui]

A candle for my grandfather, please: he would not have known what to do with his blue-haired queer grandchild, but nonetheless he was the sort of man who would never, ever have let that stand between us.

To illustrate the man just a little, my maternal and paternal grandparents had a longstanding grievance and never spoke to one another again after my paternal grandmother tried to weirdly hijack my parents' wedding. Nonetheless, when my paternal grandmother died he found out where and when the funeral was, checked with my dad that nobody would be offended if he came, and attended wearing his best (and completely immaculate) black suit.

He barely knew her and certainly did not like her, but she was a human being he knew a little and so he was there, paying his respects. Hardly anyone there even knew who he was and he didn't speak up or draw attention to himself in any way. I only know he was there because I saw his car outside (and because I know if I had needed him, he would have been right there). It was the sort of thing he did because he felt it was right and therefore, to him, it was necessary.

I miss him so much.

(Note: talking about him would be welcome, if anyone wants to.)

[kaberett]

I have lighted a candle for him. Thank you for sharing him with me.

[ludy]

Please will you light a candle for conflict’s Mum who died recently. She loved dogs and big colourful flowers and was an ally and advocate for her NueroDiverse children and grandchildren (as well as the NT ones obviously)

[kaberett]

I have lit a candle. Thank you for sharing her with me.

[silveradept]

A candle this year for my cousin Beth, who proved that the RNG is Heartless by dying from a medical thing while only one year older than I am. While I didn't know her that much other than childhood, I hope her memory is a blessing to those that remember her.

[kaberett]

I have lighted a candle. xx

[sfred]

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