Tag: Celebration of life
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Changes in the Family Tree
A generation gap has closed. My grandfather passed yesterday. With that event, the last of his cohort in my family is gone. No one from that level of the family tree survives. That cog in the wheel has turned over. With the rotation, my parents generation officially takes on the senior status, and I will…
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Día de Muertos, celebrating life
I’m not sure when my interest first began in Mexican festivals and rituals. I was not born in that country and have no relatives who come from there. I’m not Catholic, or even Christian. If anything, I align most with the philosophy of Buddhism. Yet, there is something about the family traditions in Mexico which…