What would your altar look like?

By Zoe Corneli on Monday, Nov 2, 7:28pm
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If you could create your own Day of the Dead altar -- from this side of the grave -- what items would you choose to represent your life? If you have created an altar before, what was your most meaningful addition?

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By Laura Klivans on Tuesday, Nov 10, 2:57pm.

Running shoes, beach sand, family photos. An orange background and piles of big earrings. A "free burma!" bumper sticker. Lots of dark chocolate and perhaps some melting frozen yogurt.


  

  

    



  
  

  
   

   	

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By Holly Kernan on Tuesday, Nov 3, 9:17am.

    
Pictures and poems. Poems from Neruda's Ode to Common Things. Dirt--a handful of dirt. Julia's baby book. Some of the notes Mike used to leave for me. Yellow lilies and irises. Art by Julia. Sand from Spain.

    

  







  

  

    



  
  

  
   

   	

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By Margaret Rosas on Wednesday, Nov 4, 11:53pm.

    
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, Changes by David Bowie, Roman's train, Madeline's cat painting, Zsa Zsa's logo designs, plane tickets and passport from travels with Rudolph, pictures of people I inspired to do something they never expected

    

  







  

  

    



  
  

  
   

   	

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By Julia Halprin Jac... on Monday, Nov 9, 2:01pm.

    
Family photos, tie dye, soccer shoes, a waterski decorated with paper flowers. A Frank O'Hara poem and a boombox with a specially-made mix cd. A few Gatorades in case my blood sugar goes low in the afterlife.