What would your altar look like?
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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Remembering the dead
Halloween has come and gone, but there’s still a little more time to eat sweets and celebrate the spooky, the ghoulish and the otherworldly. The day of the dead festival is going on right now. Dia de los Muertos, celebrated in Mexico and throughout North America, is a time to remember deceased ancestors. In honor of the holiday, we’re listening back to a report that KALW’s Kristi Coale produced last year.
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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.
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
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.
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.