 Purred: Thu Oct 29, '09 12:50am PST |
 | |  | | Miss Lillie,
I trust that we can do something about Grandpa during our Dia de Los Muertos celebration (which we plan on having overnight after the actual Halloween party winds down). Dia de Los Muertos is a celebration of those who are beloved but have passed on in the Mexican tradition.
You prepare special food, and you make decorations using marigolds, oranges, and the like. They then are all brought to local cemeteries, and there a feast begins, where the participants have good food, laughter, and music overnight and all the way through All Saints Day (November 1). You have a party for those loved ones, so to speak, and it is said that the souls of those who have passed on probably do partake of the festivities, even though we cannot see them with our own eyes.
Perhaps while we have our party Grandpa Conrad and Izzie's dog sister Mollie might be there too, hiding in the echoes of the wind. They'll definitely appreciate hearing stories about themselves. I will definitely be telling about the many times Grandpa would trying to instruct us all about his wild cat ways, and I'm sure that everyone will have some stories to tell, whether about Grandpa or someone else, so that Grandpa's soul, if he is listening, will surely be having a grand old time listening in. |  |  | |  |
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