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TIS THE COVID SEASON TO COLLECT HERITAGE RECIPES INTO A BOOK TO GIFT YOUR FAMILY

It seems that time off due to Covid-19 crisis has resulted in many of us gaining a few pounds as we try the recipes that we bookmarked in cookbooks, ripped out of magazines, and begged friends for after tasting them at parties. All well and good.

Several of my friends are attempting to make the free food they have picked up at giveaways into interesting meals.  A little this - a little that.

May I suggest that this is an excellent time to collect heritage recipes for your family history book or a special genealogy supplement.

I suggest that you ask each of your relatives for a recipe they are famous for or love and put it in a collection for distribution just among the family.  Add a photo of the person and any comments they might make such as memories of a meal that included that dish, when they first made it, or who best loves the meal.  Perhaps a traditional recipe from one's native country has been adapted to be vegetarian?

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ALL SOULS - CEMETERY VISITS VERSUS CREMATION

So many people are being cremated now. I think it's about affordability and mobility.  So many people have moved from what was once the family home town that visiting cemeteries also seems to be passe. No more going to clean the grave.  A cemetery might notice that no one visits and decide they can recycle your ancestor, dig up or move or destroy the grave. And sell it again. Thought it was permanent.  Find out it's temporary.  Or they might want to hit you or your family up for more money. It happens.

I currently live near a cemetery where it would seem most people are not forgotten.  You see whole Christmas trees on some graves. Flowers in the little holders in the crypt. 

Is this all for the LIVING?

Very occasionally I walk around a cemetery just looking at the carved tomb stones.  I know obits lie.  This week I looked at a couple that belong to people who were horrible in life but the obit mentions all the loving they gave and got.

Cremation does away with the bed board - his and her - married persons tombstone. That gives the impression they are resting together in eternity when in real life they had terrible fights and probably should never been married before. And despite belief systems that marriage ends upon death and they have separate heavenly rests.

I haven't made up my own mind about the disposal of my earthly body.  I'm still attached to it.  I know I don't want to be dropped into the sea.

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