Comments on: Sudden Shade http://www.recipesfortrouble.com/2007/07/sudden-shade/ A world of food stories, culinary memories, and ingredients queerly political. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:23:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Marusya http://www.recipesfortrouble.com/2007/07/sudden-shade/#comment-570 Marusya Sun, 08 Jul 2007 01:10:47 +0000 http://recipesfortrouble.com/2007/07/sudden-shade/#comment-570 Aza, I was thinking of your dad, too. I like the shrine you created. It's hard, but important, to find ways to memorialize our loved, lost ones. Somehow, for me, it happened by walking in the rain, taking pictures, and writing. Aza,
I was thinking of your dad, too. I like the shrine you created. It’s hard, but important, to find ways to memorialize our loved, lost ones. Somehow, for me, it happened by walking in the rain, taking pictures, and writing.

]]> By: Aza http://www.recipesfortrouble.com/2007/07/sudden-shade/#comment-569 Aza Sat, 07 Jul 2007 16:29:12 +0000 http://recipesfortrouble.com/2007/07/sudden-shade/#comment-569 Thank you, Marusya for your tribute to Roman. We share this day of grief and remembering -- for me, this year was the first time I was not in Toronto with my family. I put all of Dad's things, his Meerschaum pipe, one of his private stock Havana cigars with his name on it, photos, his last birthday card to me in one place, and lit some candles (not a yartzeit candle, didn't want to risk burning down the house - he wouldn't have been impressed), played the cd of him playing the piano, read some poetry... missed him in a concentrated way for an evening ... And earlier in the day, as I aways do, put some money in a busker's hat in memory of Roman ... Thank you, Marusya for your tribute to Roman. We share this day of grief and remembering — for me, this year was the first time I was not in Toronto with my family. I put all of Dad’s things, his Meerschaum pipe, one of his private stock Havana cigars with his name on it, photos, his last birthday card to me in one place, and lit some candles (not a yartzeit candle, didn’t want to risk burning down the house - he wouldn’t have been impressed), played the cd of him playing the piano, read some poetry… missed him in a concentrated way for an evening …

And earlier in the day, as I aways do, put some money in a busker’s hat in memory of Roman …

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