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Do You Remember Your First Cemetery?

Posted by Diane Neldon on

Do You Remember Your First Cemetery?

Do you remember that very first time?  For the love, whatever the reason, took you to that place…to the Cemetery.  (the word cemetery (from Greek κοιμητήριον, "sleeping place").  I remember that first time, but I don’t remember when I first started having my fascination with them.  I still really don’t know why I do.  All I know is I am drawn to the architecture, the serenity, the history, the sheer beauty of them.  My first time was at Placitas Cemetery, New Mexico March 23, 2001.  It is a very small Catholic Cemetery, about 18 miles northeast of Albuquerque.  It’s in...

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WHAT’S ONE OF YOUR FAVORITE HALLOWEEN MEMORIES?

Posted by Diane Neldon on

WHAT’S ONE OF YOUR FAVORITE HALLOWEEN MEMORIES?
I say just one “of”, because if you are like me there are many favorite memories. Bits and pieces of moments in time, of the Halloween season. Halloween, holds some of my favorite memories.

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WHY DO YOU LIKE CEMETERIES? Are you a Taphophile?

Posted by Diane Kaylyn Neldon Brians on

WHY DO YOU LIKE CEMETERIES? Are you a Taphophile?
What is it about cemeteries that are so fascinating to so many?  I have wondered this myself. Graveyards, coffins, skulls, why am I intrigued with them? The history with the cemetery and the area. How people celebrate life and death. There is such beauty. We have been to cemeteries that are so amazingly beautiful and some that are now only remains to a people that were once thriving that are now gone. Where there was once grand display of status has since been left to decay and rot. The forgotten. The architecture of these cities of the dead. The wrought iron and stain glass.

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