29.10.12 | The End Of The Year
Halloween isn't about ghosts and goblins and ghouls. It's about welcoming your ancestors and departed relatives and loved ones into this world and keeping the unwanted "others" out. It's the ONE day of the year that you can make peace with the past and wrongs you have given and suffered. It's the one day of the year when you can tell a dead person that you love them and be sure that they are listening. It's the day when the dead time begins. When the world falls asleep and the boundaries between the waking world and... other places are thinnest...
Sometimes, if you're lucky, you can hear them reply, too. So light your pumpkins as landing strips to guide the special dead into your homes and ward the darker spirits away. This is a day as important as Longest Night.
So, to my ancestors on the coast of Cornwall and in Keswick and further north in Scotland... i bid a deep affectionate welcome. And the best greeting of all i save for my father.
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i will have you know that my grandfather (dad's side) was a goblin ghoul and ghost so halloween is just right for him!!
... read that as he was at the minimum a self medicated (drunk) bipolar abusive fuck that everyone hated and no one went to his funeral
he was so bad that my dad, as a small child, hug his teddy bear in effigy of his father
sometimes a holiday, like halloween, is aptly portrayed
;)
xoxo
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Thats where i'm hanging until i get this blog working how i want it again. Hopefully sometime this year.
the name is Opal Luna Saturnyne
/hugs
/waves xx
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