Di'a de los Muertos

Each year my friend and Spanish teacher, creates an altar at school to teach this Holiday. Dia de los Muertos, AND if that stuff is a tad on the tacky side, even better. I think I saw a cross made with coke bottle caps???It could have been a vision???
This is a holiday where people honor those love ones who have passed on. Died, left the earth, no longer with us. They put out pictures and items that their loved one enjoyed, food, some even lay out a pillow and mattress, hoping the spirits will stay and visit. The flower of choice, is the stinky marigold, it is suppose to attract the departed??? When you are missing someone, you will do anything, trust me.
Perlotta always uses Superman, Christopher Reeves as her main altar person. She figures he got, a raw deal, for sure. Plus children, sort of, know who superman is?? This year, I asked her to add, My Ward!!!! So his picture is next to superman, and that would thrill him, as it does me.
He is surrounded by the youth of children, religious folk art, superman and the love of my friend.
Visiting cemeteries is often, a weekly ritual in the south, we did not need a holiday, to go clean the graves of all our relatives!!! We would visit strangers, bring flowers and letters and love. EVERY WEEKEND, we would visit, like these people were going to get up and leave "Greenlawn"
or was it called "Evergreen?"
Loving people in life and in death is very important. How you do it, is personal.
Ward's photo next to Christopher Reeves, Thank you Maria.