All Hallow's Eve
Oct. 31st, 2004 07:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Happy Hallowe'en, everyone. Merry Samhain, happy All Hallow's Eve...
Take a moment or two & let the tattered Veil brush across your soul. Let those who have gone before come back in for awhile. Welcome them to a Dumb Supper, give a little rum to the ancestors. It's their day, say "Howdy!" to your dead folk.
This morning as I was riding home under a high-flying Moon, I sat in the car contemplating what I'd be doing if I wasn't me, and I wasn't here... I saw myself in the white dress of the hounsis, carrying flowers & candles & rum to St. Louis #1, my hair done up in a kerchief, smiling & laughing with others on the same mission, no one even minding the fact that I was a white girl... sweeping the dust from the tombs & vaults, trimming the shrubs, pulling weeds. Sprinkling offerings over the graves of those who rested there... Lighting the candles, maybe singing a song or two, spraying rum, having a picnic among the dead when all the work was done. That feeling of fellowship that really doesn't happen out here.
Or maybe erecting a huge altar full of marzipan skulls & going to a Requiem for the Dead, a celebration of All Soul's, walking barefoot in Mexico City.
Wishing I had more time this month to decorate the house. Now I'm just hoping I can be awake before the trick or treaters inundate us.
A week & a day til BodyWorlds! I printed all the maps, I have the confirmation paperwork for the planes & the car... I'm actually starting to get really excited by the whole prospect.
Take a moment or two & let the tattered Veil brush across your soul. Let those who have gone before come back in for awhile. Welcome them to a Dumb Supper, give a little rum to the ancestors. It's their day, say "Howdy!" to your dead folk.
This morning as I was riding home under a high-flying Moon, I sat in the car contemplating what I'd be doing if I wasn't me, and I wasn't here... I saw myself in the white dress of the hounsis, carrying flowers & candles & rum to St. Louis #1, my hair done up in a kerchief, smiling & laughing with others on the same mission, no one even minding the fact that I was a white girl... sweeping the dust from the tombs & vaults, trimming the shrubs, pulling weeds. Sprinkling offerings over the graves of those who rested there... Lighting the candles, maybe singing a song or two, spraying rum, having a picnic among the dead when all the work was done. That feeling of fellowship that really doesn't happen out here.
Or maybe erecting a huge altar full of marzipan skulls & going to a Requiem for the Dead, a celebration of All Soul's, walking barefoot in Mexico City.
Wishing I had more time this month to decorate the house. Now I'm just hoping I can be awake before the trick or treaters inundate us.
A week & a day til BodyWorlds! I printed all the maps, I have the confirmation paperwork for the planes & the car... I'm actually starting to get really excited by the whole prospect.
