Remembering

Remembrance Day is the string around my finger that reminds me to meditate on all of the people—here and gone—that I love.

WHAT NOT TO MISS | What’s your favourite holiday? Christmas, Easter, Halloween? Mine’s Remembrance Day. I love it because it’s a plain day with nothing to buy and no baggage like costumes, candy, cards, parties or gifts. I love that it’s a cultural unifier, and about honour and sacrifice and all sorts of other things that are so much bigger than me.

Remembrance Day (Veterans Day in the U.S.) rituals are rooted in the kind of real history most of us can relate to on some level no matter where we’ve come from originally or what kinds of issues we faced when we lived in those other places.  A  trip to the cenotaph make me think about all of this.  —C. Rule

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