A Quiet Sea of Light

Two years on, and your words still echo in my heart.

Last year I reflected on this journey and shared some of your comforting words.

I still feel the same, but today I’d like to post your full text from a post you wrote back in 2008, before we met, about how All Saints’ and All Souls’ Days are celebrated in Poland.

Your voice says it all:

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It's HALLOWEEN there in the U.S. today =))) Am I right??? I think it's a lot of fun!!

Hah... Actually here in Poland we DO NOT celebrate it....

We DO celebrate at this time....but to be precise it'll be TOMORROW.

Let me explain you HOW it looks like here...=))

On 1st November we have a day which (loosely translated into English ;)) we call the

DAY of ALL HOLY PEOPLE or the DAY of ALL DEAD PEOPLE.....

It is a rather nostalgic,reflexive day....there's no fun,no laugh,no jokes there.... on this day we visit the cementries to stay a while with all the people from our family,our friends,who died...

We care for their graves, bring flowers and ..... we light candles,little torches...little lights on the graves of our dead beloved (or even some unknown!!) people........

Then later when it gets dark all the lights burning ...lightening...they look like... a BIG SEA....

And then on 2nd November we celebrate a Memorial Day.....it's the time in which we just think bout our beloved dead ones...the ones that've gone....always too fast......always in the wrong time...

...we are with them with our thoughts,we speak to them...tryin' to deal with the fact that they've gone...

...and we pray....

Personally I think it is a nice tradition ....makes people rember and belive that there's not JUST the LIFE here on Earth....not just this one....otherwise it'd be no sense in living here...

I like visiting the cemetaries...looking at the lightened candle "sea".....it's a mystic ,nostalgic, thoughtfull moment...a while in which everyone stays calm and quiet...

Sinking in this atmosphere for a while....letting a single tear fall .....leaving with a hug with all the family.....

Hope I haven't bore you...=)) Just thought it'd be nice to tell you...HOW we celebrate these days here in Poland....=))

As you can see it's slightly different..but I LOVE the fact that there are differences all around the world in celebrating special feasts.....!!

Don't you think it's great...so intersting!! Makes you want to explore MORE and MORE !! =D