Eskimo Anney: What's Sleep for, Practice for Death Maybe?

Yesterday my family and I went to Old Town San Diego to walk around and see the Alters for Day of the Dead.

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wiki- (Spanish: D?a de los Muertos) is a?Mexican holiday celebrated throughout Mexico and around the world in other cultures. The holiday focuses on gatherings of family and friends to pray for and remember friends and family members who have died. It is particularly celebrated in Mexico, where it is a national holiday, and all banks are closed. The celebration takes place on November 1 and 2, in connection with the Catholic holidays of All Saints' Dayand All Souls' Day. Traditions connected with the holiday include building private altars honoring the deceased using sugar skulls, marigolds, and the favorite foods and beverages of the departed and visiting graves with these as gifts. They also leave possessions of the deceased.

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My husband asked me to paint me face like a sugar skull, and I was apprehensive because I didn't want to be the only one walking around with a painted face.? I did it for him on the condition that he buy me a bouquet of flowers so I could put them in my hair.? Much to my relief there were a lot of sugar skull painted faces, and booths set up with people painting faces into sugar skulls!? Haha.? I had strangers asking to take my picture, and I'm not camera shy obviously so I liked the attention.? I took about an hour to do my hair and makeup, I know I could do better if I gave myself more time and better quality face paint.? It was a fun night.

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I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it. -Mark Twain

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
-Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

-Charles Bukowski?

?Death must be so beautiful.? To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow.? To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace. -Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking. -Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and towards the end, his wife started crying and screaming, "I want to go too! I want to go too!" And with his last measure of strength, McKinley turned to her and spoke his last words: "We are all going.?
-John Green, Looking for Alaska
"Don't think of it as dying", said death, "Just think of it as leaving early to avoid the rush."
-Terry Pratchett, Good Omens:? The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.
-Haruki Murakami, Blid Willow, Sleeping WOman: 24 Stories
I want to write my own eulogy, and I want to write it in Latin. It seems only fitting to read a dead language at my funeral.
-Jarod Kintz, I Want
Here is a picture from the first time I painted my face like this, a little over a year ago I think.

I have been wanting to add this song on my blog but never felt it was fitting, this is the perfect post for it!

Seasick Steve- The Dead Song

Source: http://eskimoanney.blogspot.com/2012/11/whats-sleep-for-practice-for-death-maybe.html

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