River: Day of the Dead

[mdlbear]

Today is the first of November, Samhain, and the Day of the Dead. The veils between the worlds are thinner now than most times, and it's a good time to honor the ones I have lost.

I don't have much to say, beyond thanking you for having been part of my life, however long or briefly that may have been. My daughter Amethyst Rose, stillborn in 1990; my mother-in-law Shirley Hentzell and my father Abraham Savitzky, who died less than two weeks apart in 1999; my mother Lynn Savitzky, who died in 2020 two months before her hundredth birthday; my dear wife Colleen, who left us in 2021.

And let's not forget our cats: Curio, who crossed the Rainbow Bridge a decade ago; and Desti, our pocket panther, who followed him in 2023.

I miss you all. I love you still.