Desfile / parade Dia De Los Muertos?

RantWoman missed her Friday afternoon tactile graphics fix--for the second week in a row! Sigh. RantWoman instead, in honor of The Day of the  Dead / El Dia de los Muertos offers a linke in Spanish about the celebratory parade in San Miguel De Allenda, Guanajuato, Mexico and an awesome image that unfortunately probably would not make good tactile graphics. And there is more. Stay tuned after the link and the pic. Link provided opartly to ensure proper attribution

Dia De Los Muertos Parade, San Muiguel De Allenda, Mx 2019

Come now random RantWoman thoughts about memorials. Rantwoman has been asked not to come to anything at Meeting except memorials. RantWoman pledges to be true to her Light and cannot predict how that is going to look on ahny given First Day.

Memorials?

Literature brain could have REALLY a lot of fun turning all kinds of events into memorials.

Lead us not into temptation.

Or at least lead us into MORE QUAKER PROCESS experiences first, hope, pray. pretty please with Day of the Dead sugar on top, so much more culturally interesting than Halloween sugar.

For now, RantWoman's highly idiosyncratic observations about a memorial for a Friend RantWoman will call Bees and Bulletin passages friend. Basically it was a lovely memorial with a good selection of cookies after and no mention in the memorial of this Friend's funky hip brace that made her look like a StarWars storm trooper.

A Friend (who should be horrifed by the nom de Blog RantWoman would assign( did nice intro but RantWoman does not think there was anyone there except the late Friend's sons who was unfamiliar with Quaker memorials.

A Friend mentioned elsewhere with multiple noms de blog did a nice job of reading the excerpt of the memorial minute in the program. He also toward the end had one of his sort of standard
it's the Light messages.Ordinarily RantWoman finds he talks well and listens poorly and other people find him more scintillating that does RantWoman but this time somehow he was fine.

--The subcommittee on interpersonal violence came up multiple times along with library committee. Readers who want to know what RantWoman is talking about, put "interpersonal" into the search bar. The committee has now been laid down and its role rolled back into Care and counsel, sort of.. Rantwoman still finds the name of the committee sort of odd: is the committee for or against interpersonal violence or do they just talk about it? Further thoughts possibly available elsewhere; No, that moment of snark does not do justice to the intent of the committee but oh well.

--RantWoman thinks all three of the Bees and Bulkletin Passages friend's sons were there. Two of them spoke, one about a swarm of bees and RantWoman does not remember the other. Rantwoman opted not to go fogging up to ranom people she did not recognize and ask. That would be one of those points of social difficulty when visual cues do notwork...

--RantWoman liked whoever it was who said Life is for the living and enjoyed the images from the message about the swarm of bees.

--RantWoman was kind of a zombie aft er her weekend away so she just closed her eyes and has NO idea how her  message came across. People at least tolerated:

    --Appreciation that we are having the memorial because RantWoman misses seeing polly on the bus

    --It was sweet to learn she was friends with this blind guy who used to live in Rantwoman's building and who RantWoman is certain tuned the RantFamily;s piano long ago when we lived in CO. They probably had Bible interests in common.
   --RantWoman  loved the little passages that Bees and Bulletin moments Friend put into the bulletin and
loved that she read contemporary stuff not just old voices.

   --RantWoman mentioned that we read Julia Esquivel's poem "They have threatened us with resurrection" one time in a spiritual sharing group but passed up the opportunity to make everyone listen to her  phone read it aloud.

    --RantWoman offered a hold in the Light thought because The late friend alluded to
tensions among her children. Decades after RantDad's passing, the RantFamily is still sorting out...

Other people were not as lengthy or multi-threaded and not everyone even fathoms that of God aboard Metro.

Miscellaneous additional moments
--Is it possible to make sign up to help set upand clean up for memorials for people you don't know sound like fun, and maybe people who helped with the prep found ti part of the memorial process, but RantWoman repeats her thought from another memorial that there would be some point about inviting newcomers into the
process.

Other than that, it really creepsRantWoman out that the only thing people think anyone should have to handle around RantWoman is talking about dead people. There would be that part about FIGURE IT
OUT as far as living!
In Light and Faithfulness.

RantWoman