All Souls'

[kaberett]

It is the second of November. This evening I will be lighting a candle and eating Seelenkuchen and generally quietly remembering my dead.

If you would like me to remember yours, too, I would as ever be honoured if you shared them with me.

Comments

[lunabee34]

I wish you joy and peace in the remembrance.

[kaberett]

<3

<3

[fyreharper]

Jaromir wasn’t ever actually my stepson, but for a little while it looked like he could have been. He was wild-haired and gawky and sweet, and an excellent guitarist.

Re: <3

[kaberett]

Thank you for sharing him. <3

[ewt]

Please remember:
Christopher Heffernan
Ramona Adams
Roy Norberg
Don Wright
Mildred Rose
Ted Rose
Michael

[kaberett]

Thinking of them with my candle now. <3

[ludy]

Nila

[kaberett]

<3 I have been thinking of them frequently - I did not really know them, but so many of you that I do did. <3

[ludy]

thank you

[oracne]

Their memories for a blessing.

[kaberett]

<3

[rmc28]

My grandmothers, who died 20 and 15 years ago this year, and whom I still miss when reminded. I am so glad I had a few years of knowing them as an adult myself, not just a child.

[kaberett]

Candle is lit on my grandparents' patio, on the candlestick my great-grandmother got from her landlord (whose name I really SHOULD learn.)

[vass]

<3

[kaberett]

B is on my list. <3

[worlds_of_smoke]

can you please light a candle for Bean?

[kaberett]

<3 I have only the one candle this year but I will speak their name.

[shanaqui]

♥

Gwen, my nan, who was many things, including a person who threw a brick at Parliament.

Charlie, my grampy, who taught me to build Lego houses right before he died like that was the most important task he could ever have to achieve.

Ron, my grandad, who obligingly pretended to get lost in the woods so me and my sister could be brave about it.

Peter, who gave me some very good advice, taught me French very well, and actually tried to do something about me being bullied.

[kaberett]

I did a small cry. Thank you for sharing them. <3

[silveradept]

Louise, whose cookie jar never emptied, and who could throw elbows with the best of them.

Edward Aloysius, who fed the calves each morning for as long as he could.

Vernon, who was a steadfast card player and storyteller.

Beth, who by rights should have had much longer than she did.

onyxlynx, keeper of the Non-Statistical Division.

And all the others who left us long before what would have been a full and glorious life.

[kaberett]

<3

[watersword]

I think my not-not-Catholic stepfather would be very pleased to be remembered.

[kaberett]

He is remembered. <3

[joshuaorrizonte]

I would be honored if you would light a candle for Lisa. She was my best friend.

[kaberett]

I am lighting only the one candle this year, but I have spoken her name. <3

[joshuaorrizonte]

Thank you so much. <3

[cosmolinguist]

Oops I probably left it too late, but I've asked you to remember my brother every year I've known you to do this, so I'm okay about skipping one. :)

[kaberett]

I'm back inside now but I remembered him anyway <3

[cosmolinguist]

Oh thank you so much. I've thought about him so much this year, nice to know I'm not the only one. <3

[madgastronomer]

I am remembering Lillie Hale Nelms, Peg Nelms Stelling, and all those I knew who died of AIDS, too many to name. Remember them with me, if you will.

[hairyears]

John Richard Lalka: artist, cartoonist, recovered heroin addict, son of a refugee and former prisoner of both the Third Reich and the Soviet Union; schoolfriend and fellow-survivor of a deeply damaging and dysfunctional community of young Christian adults; death by suicide.

Maurice Bailey, MA, Headmaster of the Sixth Form College I escaped to: a quiet man, a Quaker, an example we came to respect and recognise long after we had left, of how much good can be done, and laid down as a foundation in the lives of others, quietly and carefully by the principled exercise of authority by consent. Death by heart failure.

Christopher Heffernan, Farmer in County Kildare, who took upon himself the risk of ensuring that his house and hospitality were always open to us as family, when many had told him we should not be. I remember his gentle good humour: and learned, slowly, how he had prevailed and prospered as an egalitarian and a critic of religious deference in a society where such principles were abhorrent and an invitation to ridicule and ostracision. They are less so, today, in part due to his own life and example and influence in the parishes and communities of County Kildare. Death by cancer, in 2013, shortly after our marriage.