Day of the Dead

Maureen and Cody are having a small church wedding on Sunday in Dallas, followed by a 3-day celebration including a second church wedding in San Miguel del Allende, Mexico, the following weekend. They are employing a Día de Muertos theme that is very cool aesthetically, a part of which entails assembling photos of deceased ancestors to place on an altar. Accordingly, I went through some of the boxes of family archives I brought home from Athens after Mom's death. The exercise pulled together several dimension of grief that converged into a wave of heavy sadness reminiscent of Poe's lament over his inability to hold on to any of the grains of sand slipping through his fingers into the void of yesterday.