Welcome to Brothers and Sisters, the weekly meetup for prayer* and community at Daily Kos. We put an asterisk on pray* to acknowledge that not everyone uses conventional religious language, but may want to share joys and concerns, or simply take solace in a meditative atmosphere. Anyone who comes in the spirit of mutual respect, warmth and healing is welcome.
Tonight is not just a holiday for dressing up in costumes, partying, trick-or-treating and gorging on candy. It is also the last day of the year in the ancient Celtic calendar. A calendar used by most modern-day Pagans, the Wheel of the Year encompasses 8 holy days. The solstices and equinoxes are quarter days or Lesser Sabbats while the cross-quarter days are the Greater Sabbats. These are Imbolc (Feb.1), Beltane (May 1), Lammas (Aug. 1) and Samhain (Nov.1). All Hallows Eve is the last night of the old year. On this night it is traditional to remember those whom we have lost in the previous 12 months.
Below the fold, we will honor the Beloved Dead...
For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cease breathing, but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered? ~~ Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Carl Ballantine
Claude Levi-Strauss
Vic Davies
Joe Maross
David Lloyd
Paul Wendkos
Edward Woodward
Ken Ober
Eric Woolfson
Richard Todd
Eddie Fatu
Vyacheslav Tikhonov
Su Cruickshank
Gene Barry
Roy Disney
Alaina Reed-Amini
Dan O'Bannon
Jennifer Jones
Connie Hines
Arnold Stang
Farewell...
I pass as all things do
dew on the grass. ~~ Banzan
Brittany Murphy
Mick Cocks
Tim Hart
George Michael
Vic Chesnutt
Yves Rocher
Rowland S Howard
William May
Jean Carroll
Roberto Sanchez
Monica Maughan
Art Clokey
Mina Bern
Eric Rohmer
Jay Reatard
Teddy Pendergrass
Bobby Charles
Erich Segal
Jennifer Lyon
James Mitchell
When I am dead, my dearest,
Sing no sad songs for me;
Plant thou no roses at my head,
Nor shady cypress tree:
Be the green grass above me
With showers and dewdrops wet;
And if thou wilt, remember,
And if thou wilt, forget.
I shall not see the shadows,
I shall not feel the rain;
I shall not hear the nightingale
Sing on, as if in pain:
And dreaming through the twilight
That doth not rise nor set,
Haply I may remember,
And haply may forget. ~~ Christina Rossetti
Jean Simmons
Dave Grant
Pernell Roberts
Zelda Rubinstein
JD Salinger
Pauly Fuemana
Justin Mentell
David Brown
John McCallum
Frances Reid
Ian Carmichael
John Dankworth
Theodore Olbermann
Nina Blanchard
Walter Frederick Morrison
Charlie Wilson
Alexander McQueen (S)
Dick Francis
Doug Fieger
Ruby Hunter
Lionel Jeffries
Suddenly, you were gone
From all the lives you left your mark upon ~~ Rush, Afterimage
Kathryn Grayson
Alexander Haig
Jason Wood
Andrew Koenig (S)
Wendy Toye
Martin Benson
Kristian Digby
Winston Churchill III
Michael Foot
Corey Haim
Merlin Olsen
Peter Graves
Alex Chilton
Charlie Gillett
Fess Parker
Harry Carpenter
Jim Marshall
Johnny Maestro
Herb Ellis
June Havoc
When a man knows God, he is free: his sorrows have an end,
and birth and death are no more. When in inner union he is
beyond the world of the body, then the third world, the world
of the Spirit, is found, where the power of the All is, and man
has all: for he is one with the ONE. ~~ The Svetasvatara Upanishad
Nehama Patkin
Henry Edward Roberts
John Forsythe
Sonia McMahon
Eugene Terre'Blanche
Alec Bedser
Corin Redgrave
Christopher Cazenove
Malcolm McLaren
Meinhardt Raabe
Kenneth McKellar
Dixie Carter
Peter Steele
Benjamin L. Hooks
Carl Williams
Guru (Keith Alam)
Dorothy Height
Juan Antonio Samaranch
Alan Sillitoe
Lynn Redgrave
Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
~~ 1 Corinthians 15: 51-57
Lena Horne
Ronnie James Dio
Ray Alan
Paul Gray
Art Linkletter
Gary Coleman
Dennis Hopper
Rue McClanahan
Brian Duffy
Adriana Xenides
Egon Ronay
Jimmy Dean
Ronald Neame
Chris Sievey
Pete Quaife
Alan Plater
Robert Byrd
Beryl Bainbridge
Vonetta McGee
Sugar Minott
You can shed tears that she is gone
or you can smile because she has lived.
You can close your eyes and pray that she'll come back
or you can open your eyes and see all she's left.
Your heart can be empty because you can't see her
or you can be full of the love you shared.
You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday
or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday.
You can remember her and only that she's gone
or you can cherish her memory and let it live on.
You can cry and close your mind, be empty and turn your back
or you can do what she'd want: smile, open your eyes, love and go on.
~~ Anonymous
Bobby Spillane
Harvey Pekar
George Steinbrenner
Charles Mackerras
David Warren
Jon Cleary
Alex Higgins
Ivy Bean
Tom Mankiewicz
John Louis Mansi
Patricia Neal
George DiCenzo
Abbey Lincoln
Robert Wilson
Charles Haddon (S)
George David Weiss
Victoria Longley
Cammie King Conlon
Mike Edwards
Robert Schimmel
A ship sails and I stand watching till she fades on the horizon and someone at my side says She is gone.
Gone where? Gone from my sight, that is all. She is just as large now as when I last saw her. Her diminished size and total loss from my sight is in me, not in her.
And just at that moment, when someone at my side says she is gone, there are others who are watching her coming over their horizon and other voices take up a glad shout - There she comes!
That is what dying is. An horizon and just the limit of our sight.
Lift us up O Lord, that we may see further. ~~ Bishop Brent
David Dortort
Clive Donner
Harold Gould
Kevin McCarthy
Claude Chabrol
Alphonsus Cassell
Jorge González
Malcolm Douglas
Eddie Fisher
Gerald S. Lesser
Gloria Stuart
George Blanda
Arthur Penn
Greg Giraldo
Tony Curtis
Stephen J. Cannell
Norman Wisdom
William Shakespeare (John Stanley Cave)
Roy Ward Baker
Solomon Burke
And I would search everywhere
Just to hear your call,
And walk upon stranger roads than this one
In a world I used to know before.
For now I've lost everything,
I give to you my soul.
The meaning of all that I believed before
Escapes me in this world of none,
I miss you more.
~~ Genesis, Afterglow
Kenny McKinley (S)
Ralph Vicinanze
Mary Walker
Aiyisha Hassan (S)
Zach Harrington (S)
Seth Walsh (S)
Asher Brown (S)
Tyler Clementi (S)
Billy Lucas (S)
Joan Sutherland
Claire Rayner
Benoit Mandelbrot
Simon MacCorkindale
Barbara Billingsley
Stathi Katsidis
Tom Bosley
Bob Guccione
Lucas Ward
Melissa Howard
Deann Ray
We all come from the Goddess, and to Her we shall return like a drop of rain flowing to the ocean...
Hoof and horn, all that dies shall be reborn. Vine and grain, all that's cut shall rise again... Traditional Pagan interweaving chants
Pavel Mikaliov
Margaret Catoe
Alexander Anderson
Lisa Blount
Gerard Kelly
James MacArthur
James Wall
Emma Johnson
Theodore C. Sorensen
All who have died due to terrorism
Those lost in war and aggression
Finally, a year ago Tuesday I lost my Mother:
MARY HAUPT Mary J. "Jackie" Haupt passed away Monday, Nov. 2, 2009, from heart complications. She was a longtime resident of Las Vegas.She worked at North Las Vegas City Hall until she retired. Jackie is survived by her husband, of 42 years, Robert L. Haupt; daughter, Tery Steelman (Barry) of Bremerton, Wash.; son, Bruce (Kerry) of Las Vegas; two sisters, Laura and Marty , both of Las Vegas; two grandchildren; and eight nieces and nephews. Jackie's vibrant personality touched many hearts along the way and she will be missed by her friends and family. No services are scheduled.
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Blessed Be.