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This evening I will be remembering my dead. If there is anyone you'd like to share with me, I'd be honoured.

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vass

May their memory be a blessing to you.

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kaberett

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ghoti

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kaberett

♥

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angelofthenorth

Dad - died in 2000, and Aunty Win who died this year

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kaberett

I lit candles for them both.

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angelofthenorth

thank you

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crazyscot

My uncle Derek and auntie Marg (both this year - it has been a brutal year for that side of the family).
My parents (2015 & 2006).
My amazing Grannie (b 1907 IIRC, d 1998), who was fiercely proud of her degree, and (like me) loved Tomorrows World.

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kaberett

I lit candles for them. <3

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crazyscot

<3 thank you :)

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sporky_rat

I mentioned this elsewhere, but I will be doing the Order of Worship for the Evening with the appropriate readings for All Saints' Day in honor of my brother John, dead these last four years.

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kaberett

♥

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alexseanchai

Kit Smoot. She was my high school Latin teacher.

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kaberett

I lit a candle for her.

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alexseanchai

Thank you.

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hairyears

William Henry Shipp; and his father, Henry William Shipp, who predeceased him by forty-two years, in 1974.

Both of these men had an innate genius for striking the spark of creativity in others, and nurturing it skilfully and successfully.

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kaberett

I have lit candles for them.

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wild_irises

My friend

onyxlynx died last week, and I just learned of her death this morning. In the next hour or so, I will post an obit in my journal. If you care to include her, I would be honored.

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kaberett

I had no idea; thank you for letting me know.

I've lit her a candle. May her memory be a blessing.

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kaberett

(Would you like for me to request that her account be set to memorial status? Anyone can and I'd do so by default but you were definitely closer to her than I ever was.)

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wild_irises

I didn't know the formal name for that, but I did write to DW and inform them, so I think this will happen.

But thanks!

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worlds_of_smoke

Joe, please?

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kaberett

I have lit him a candle. xx

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worlds_of_smoke

thank you. <3

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silveradept

It has been many years, but Louise, my grandmother, and Edward, my grandfather.

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kaberett

I am thinking of them. <3

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jedusaur

Just last week I broke through whatever block has been preventing me from writing about my grandfather since his death almost two years ago. I still need to type it up--I did it longhand (at the lake, in the dark with a flashlight--funny how circumstances play out sometimes). But it flowed perfectly once I started, and I'm feeling much more at peace with his memory.

I am not at all at peace with the imminent death of my undergrad mentor, who was given a year to live last December. That's been hard. I visit her every week and she's perfectly mentally capable; she takes a professional interest in her own health and has probably earned at least an acknowledgement if not posthumous authorship on the paper her doctor is going to publish about one of the things that is killing her. It's difficult to conceive of her dying with such a sharp mind.

And then the ten-year anniversary of Ava's death is in May. I'll cross that panic attack when I get to it.

I don't know if you're still doing the candle thing (time zones and timestamps are confusing) but regardless, thanks for listening. <3

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kaberett

I was thinking about Ava last night.

I'm so sorry about your mentor: her memory, and her time remaining, sound unequivocally like blessings.

And I am glad that you have more peace about your grandfather, and look forward to reading more about him.

Thank you so much for sharing them with me. <3

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cadenzamuse

I had to work a twelve hour day yesterday, so I mostly kept All Souls' by listening to various All Saints'/All Souls' playlists on Spotify, and I took fifteen minutes to go listen to music that reminded me of my grandfather ("When the Lights Go On Again All Over the World," "Chattanooga Choo Choo," and "I've Got Five Dollars") and cry. Did not get round to either of my grandmothers or my uncle yesterday, but I guess that's why there is a month of November and a Feast of Christ the King.