November Numbness
This month, the month of the dead, the month of remembrance, the month of Death... this month, the grim reaper has hit home - again.
C.A.P. has died, in a fiery car accident.
Who is C.A.P. you ask?
C.A.P. is Carlos Alberto PIMÈNTEL - my first-degree cousin. He was quite exactly fifty years-old. I link here the Boston.com GUESTBOOK for his LEGACY as they put it... (Note that my entry has been pushed to page three now, but it can be read right here, rightow too:
My sympathy to Martina, Rita, tio Jose and tia Margarida. Sorrow is only normal now; but cry not and rejoice instead that he is in the Hands of God now. He may be asleep, awaiting The Day - he may be no longer there with you, physically - but he is on the Greater Side of Things. And Carlos will be seen again, by all those who held him dear. One day. On The Day. From one who is still in mourning too - mourning in Faith.
Luciano Pimentel (Laval, QC)
C.A.P. was a good man - that is the consensus.
He died heirless but many are mourning him now - on two continents too.
He has touched many lives, without siring one; perhaps because he didn't sire one.
Verily, how can one not feel NUMB at this point, when Death seems to be after everyone of their lineage lately...?
In a few short years, it has been an uncle, a lady cousin, my own saintly Dad and now C.A.P. here...
Before that, we had lost several precious members of the Clan - but over the course of 20 years or more.
This is too much in too short a timespan.
This means WAR!
As if this very blog wasn't me waging war upon the grim reaper already (methinks EVERYONE who's ever stopped by here has thoroughly grasped the significance of the URL that reads "deathtodeath" - hmm?) - I solemnly swear on this day to act as though DEATH HAS NO POWER OVER ME, from this day onward!
That's right; I shall be carefree, if not careless per say.
Not to advocate devil-may-care attitudes and total absence of caution in anyone's life, I will still detach myself from the constant material world's ULTIMATE LURE: to want to hold on to "precious life" here...
As with anything else down here (riches, fame, lustful desires, all seven deadly sins and the other category too...) one has only to see the EPHEMERAL nature of it all and ONE SHALL BE FREE.
Truly free, that is - free of any constraint.
Free as a "free spirit" should truly be: free to be PURE. Free to reach out for PURITY - and touch it, feel it and become one with It.
Perhaps that is what C.A.P. has finally done, now - his relatively short passage on this earth was riled with aspirations of various earthly merit; he tried to prove his dad wrong, he tried to please others, he tried to have fun... Countless others have done and do the exact same thing, every single day that goes by. C.A.P. as all the others who have passed on, crossed over to the other side, while caught in that cycle, now sees the true GOAL out there... And they all know that death is truly nothing to fear.
Hey - it's just a frail pack of bones veiled underneath some dark cloak; one punch and it will keel over and collapse!
No, death is nothing to fear - especially not when you are reaching out for the true goal - true Life. And true Life is not what we've known so far, down here...
November is, this year especially, doubling as a month of remembrance AND anniversaries - as the 18th marks the 30th anniversary of the tragic insanity that befell the eponymous "Jonestown" in 1978. A fine article retelling the alleged chronology of events that led to a mass suicide and to the shooting death of cult leader Jim Jones can be found here - on the associated content network that I should be joining myself incessantly.
A quick web search unearths several more notable DEATH ANNIVERSARIES on this month of death...
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10th NOVEMBER 1996: 1st ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF KEN SARO-WIWA - 10th NOVEMBER 1996: 1st ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF KEN SARO-WIWA. 26kb Jpeg · 99kb Gif · On this, the occasion of the first anniversary of the execution of ...
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Anniversary of Death : Articles from Catholic Blogs - [ Traduire cette page ]THE SMITHY - November 8, 2008 Happy optional memorial, everyone! Today is the 700th anniversary of his death in Cologne. Here's to another 700 years. ...
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Russia - Litvinenko remembered on anniversary of death - JRL 11-23-07 - [ Traduire cette page ]Litvinenko remembered on anniversary of death. LONDON, November 23 (RIA Novosti) - Relatives and friends have paid tribute to Alexander Litvinenko, ...
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145th anniversary of death of Josef Ressel, inventor of propeller ... - [ Traduire cette page ]On Thursday, 145 years will have passed since the death of Josef Ressel, a Czech -born ... 18.11.2008, November 17th anniversary overshadowed by radar debate ...
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Celebrations for 65th anniversary of "death railway" bridge ... - [ Traduire cette page ]The 65th anniversary of the infamous death railway (River Kwai) Bridge built ... and those who died building it in a week of celebrations in late November. ...
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Zorn on Anniversary of Taylor's Death - Redskins Insider - [ Traduire cette page ]20 Nov 2008 ... The first anniversary of Sean Taylor's death doesn't come until ... Posted by: Soup17 | November 20, 2008 9:53 AM
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TamilNet: 02.11.08 Tamils commemorate first death anniversary of ... - [ Traduire cette page ]2 Nov 2008 ... Tamils commemorate first death anniversary of Thamilchelvan. ... air-strike on his residential office in Ki'linochchi on November 02, 2007. ...
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20th Death Anniversary of Nur Hossein: November 10 « Addafication - [ Traduire cette page ]20th Death Anniversary of Nur Hossein: November 10. November 8, 2007 in Blogroll | by Adda. Gonotontro mukti pak - Let democracy be free! ...
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Anyone who has a less "notable" anniversary to add to the list - less noteworthy to the eyes of the world, but all-important to you personally - please feel free to notify us here, at the lugubrious blog, if you wish to see it mentioned along the elite and the notorious here; ODB, Litvinenko, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Sean Taylor, Nur Hossein, the Thamilchevan and Jonestown victims, etc...
Another aspect of REMEMBRANCE was underlined and bravely emphasized by the very Google staff, on their blog right here at Blogger. A remembrance day all their own for the transgendered, who have an increased risk (by an estimated 16 to 1 margin) of being MURDERED. The Google blog encouraged all to "take just a few moments to remember the trans siblings, parents, friends and lovers who lost their lives to gender-based intolerance and hatred" on November 20th, the chosen date for Transgender Remembrance Day. No one should have to suffer the loss of a loved one due to blind hatred - and none has the right to take another's life. Kudos to Google for reminding everyone of all this, with perhaps the least spoken of category of victims there could be out there... Remember also this: love the sinner, hate ONLY the sin.
Beyond all that remembrance, I shall suggest Remembrance that, verily, we should always have at heart: that of His Sacrifice for us all. And, fittingly, the day that I am blogging this, November 23rd, is indeed the day of CHRIST THE KING, on the Roman Catholic calendar; everybody's favorite calendar - right? Whether you believe in the power behind this sacrificial act or not, the fact remains that it is historical and that He Was Indeed Crucified, while Being indeed Innocent and Pure from any sin. He Did Die for someone else's sins, and it is but a simple leap of faith as of the imaginative mind to see it as a Redemptory Act for ALL SIN.
CHRIST, King of kings, died for us all.
Remember the greatest of all of those who have died - and the only One to have vanquished death and Risen Again (in a new glorified body - no longer mere flesh, let that be crystal clear to all) on this month of the dead; and thou shall not regret it.
Hey, thou may even be saved - if thou believeth!
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