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.
Please join me below the curlycue, and 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
Charlie O'Donnell
David Steuart
Jill Clayburgh
Dave Niehaus
Dino De Laurentiis
Ingrid Pitt
Peter Christopherson
Irvin Kershner
Leslie Nielsen
Don Meredith
Richard Holbrooke
Blake Edwards
Trudy Pitts
Steve Landesberg
Teena Marie
Matthew Lipman
Gene Kelton
Bill Erwin
Pete Postlethwaite
Anne Francis
Farewell...
I pass as all things do
dew on the grass. ~~ Banzan
Major Richard Winters
Gerry Rafferty
Mick Karn
Peter Yates
John Dye
David Nelson
Susannah York
Don Kirshner
Sargent Shriver
Jack LaLanne
David Frye
Gladys Horton
Charles Louvin
Charlie Callas
John Barry Pendergast
Maria Schneider
Brian Jacques
Peggy Rea
Gary Moore
Ken Olsen
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
Tom Carnegie
Kenneth Mars
Betty Garrett
Len Lesser
Samantha Anne "Sammi" Horneman
Mark Tulin
"Duke" Snider
Frank Buckles
Jane Russell
Mike Starr
Joe Morello
Nate Dogg
Michael Gough
Warren Christopher
Knut the Polar Bear
Elizabeth Taylor
Geraldine Ferraro
Farley Granger
DJ Megatron
Scott Columbus
Suddenly, you were gone
From all the lives you left your mark upon ~~ Rush, Afterimage
Sidney Lumet
Michael Sarrazin
Grete Waitz
Elisabeth Sladen
Matt LaPorte
Phoebe Snow
Jim Mandich
Osama Bin Laden
Sir Henry Cooper
Jackie Cooper
Arthur Laurents
Robert "Tractor" Traylor
Mel Queen
Derek Boogaard
Douglas Blubaugh
Harmon Killebrew
Randy "Macho Man" Savage
Huguette Clark
Jeff Conaway
Gil Scott-Heron
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
Clarice Taylor
Jacob "Jack" Kevorkian
James King Arness
Andrew Gold
Jim Northrup
Leonard Stern
Clarence Clemons
Ryan Dunn
Peter Falk
Cy Twombly
Armen Gilliam
Betty Ford
Roberts Blossom
Michael "Würzel" Burston
Rob Grill
Sherwood Schwartz
Leo Kirch
Lucian Freud
Elwy Yost
Robert Ettinger
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
John Shalikashvilii
Amy Winehouse
Butch Lewis
Christopher "Chip" Mayer
Dan Peek
Hideki Irabu
Leslie Banks
Charles "Bubba" Smith
Andrew McDermott
Annette Charles
Fred Imus
Hugh Carey
Billie Grammer
Jani Lane
Scott LeDoux
Rick Rypien
Vic Dunlop
Jack Layton
Scotty Robertson
Nick Ashford
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
Jerry Leiber
John Howard Davies
Frank Potenza
Mike Flanagan
Wade Belak
Lee Roy Selmon
Members of the Russian hockey team:
Pavol Demitra
Ruslan Salei
Stefan Liv
Igor Korolev
Kārlis Skrastiņš
Josef Vašíček
Alexander Karpovtsev
Cliff Robertson
Frances Bay
Tom Wilson
Dolores Hope
Arch West
Peter Gent
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
Marv Tarplin
Don Lapre
David Bedford
Steve Jobs
Charles Napier
Roger Williams
Al Davis
Mikey Welsh
George Baker
Albert Rosellini
Freddie Gruber
Frank Kameny
Dan Wheldon
Sue Mengers
Kent Hull
Muamar al-Gaddafi
Scott White
Howard Wolpe
Perkins Bass
Dave Cole
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
Ron Holmes
James Hillman
Ricky Adams
Jimmy Saville
Axel Axgil
Bob Barry, Sr.
John McCarthy
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
Take a moment to give a special prayer for those who committed suicide, whose lives were so painful. May whatever despair drove them to take their own life be healed and their souls be comforted.
I realize that it might bother some that Osama bin-Laden and Muamar al-Gaddafi are on the list. But I don't judge the list, I only keep it. And I sincerely hope that you will join me in hoping that the souls of those who were evil in life be healed and changed in death. Our souls are all made by the same Divine from the same Source, I believe. This is yet another way in which all humanity is connected.
Please make additions to this list as you see fit. Feel free to post pictures and poetry and prayers.
Blessed Be.