joan_c wrote: 

 joan_c wrote: 
sorry to hear this, dear....take care... 

 joan_c wrote: 

 joan_c wrote: 
My sympathies, Joan

Dad passed away peacefully, surrounded by his family on All Saints Day, Tuesday, November 1, 2011. Dad would have appreciated the numerical significance of 11/1/11.

We will miss you Dad! Rest in peace. 

 Alexandra wrote: 

 Antigone wrote: 

 triskele wrote: 

today is all souls day, traditionally celebrated as the day of the dead in hispanic cultures.  today, i am honoring and remembering my beloved dead and my ancestors....candles burn in a little shrine where their pictures sit, and i have offered a little single malt whisky to the spirit of daddy....i know he appreciates that!

P has set up an ancestor shrine in the alcove in our living room - it's perfect for it.  Next weekend I'm going to my parents to borrow pictures of some of my ancestors to scan and get in fromes to add to the shrine.

 miamizsun wrote: 

 Alexandra wrote: 

can't believe it's been two years.

 Alexandra wrote: 
yes i do

he died in 2000

left a beautiful wife and three wonderful little children

gone too soon 

 miamizsun wrote: 

 miamizsun wrote: 
Thank you....
 

He was just a month younger than my niece—-who also would've been 41. Don't you find yourself wondering what their lives would've been like these days, if they were still here? I do it all the time. It's just nice to imagine.

 Alexandra wrote:
 

my younger brother would have been 41 today

 Alexandra wrote: 

Two years ago this morning, my brother Tony left us for the Great Beyond. We all felt it was fitting that he went on All Hallows Eve.
 
Two years later, I sat in the new home of my sister-in-law as their almost-ten-year-old son played us a few tunes from his piano book (he is a highly-skilled beginner).....and my S.I.L. sat there smiling happily beside her new and wonderful husband. Tony's memory is kept very much alive in their house, and with loving respect.
 
 

Somewhere, I know Tony's spirit is smiling. But oh do we miss him and his bear-hugs and ready laugh.

Throughout my time here at RP, I've noticed that people like to mark the anniversaries of the passing of their loved ones and say a few things in remembrance. I felt like those expressions were important enough to warrant a thread of their own.