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Thanks to Conejo Rec and Park District for its Festival de Los Muertos in Newbury Park this evening!
I like the inviting and practical utility of using #PostIt notes to create a community #ofrenda at #SanFrancisco Public #Library’s Park Branch for #DiaDeLosMuertos/ #DayOfTheDead.
Have this year's #ofrenda up and lit. We set ours up on the 31st and refresh it tomorrow and on the 2nd, which is actual Dia de Los Muertos.
Have added more decor to it this year. Am gonna eventually need a bigger table I think. Lol
I definitely learned lessons making that marigold arch over my central Catrina Calaveras.
Hoy fue un día pesado, incluso me duelen los pies.
Hoy se cumple un año que partió a la luz Paty Laurent Kullick, narradora giganta.
Hoy Ida Vitale, poeta enorme, se vuelve centenaria, hace un año que la escuché leer sus poemas y me firmó un par de libros.
Hoy día de muertos, recordando a mis padres cierro mi día tomando chocolate y pan de muerto junto a ellos.
Gracias
#DíaDeMuertos #Ofrenda
Mole with chicken and rice plus a shot of mezcal, for the ofrenda and for our own lunch 
Today at sundown the dead return to the underworld and the doors close for another year. We serve them hot food for them to carry on their long journey back, and keep their memory in our hearts.
The ofrenda is taken down and shared, along with our mutual memories and anecdotes of the departed, with family, friends and neighbors.
¡Feliz Día de Muertos!
Hizo una #ofrenda pequeña pero significativa para los antepasados.
I made a small but meaningful offering to the ancestors.
#diademuertos #diadelosmuertos #skull #altar #mexico
Julian Invictus 
My daughter made an altar to honor my late brother one day earlier this year, she was very fond of her uncle. Today, we converted it into an ofrenda and included my wife's grandparents who helped raise her. She's a quarter Mexican, her great grandparents were Mexican immigrants. We lit up some candles so they can find their way home tonight, and made offerings of some of their favorite things.
The little gremlin's ancestors may be dead, but boy, do they have an appetite! The little gremlin loves taking care of them, but he's also a bit grateful they only come to visit a for a couple of days once a year 
Día de los Muertos is a combination of an Aztec tradition from 3,000 years ago and the Catholic tradition of honoring ancestors and loved ones that have passed away for All Souls Day.
¡Feliz Día de los Muertos!
A #pinhole photo of our #ofrenda taken in 2017. (Our ofrenda this year is under construction and is a bit smaller.)
Terrapin Bijou + Portra
Gracias por tanto y por todo #DíaDeMuertos #Ofrenda #México 
Our little #ofrenda for #DiaDeMuertos 
Miss you, Uncle Don and Grandma Clarke!
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That’s why instead of crying, we paint our face as calacas (skulls), we visit the tombs of our dead with mariachis, we dance and sing and wish each other a ¡Feliz Día de Muertos! (Happy day of the dead!)
I hope you enjoyed this little thread with my attempt to at least partially explain and describe a very rich and complex part of Mexican culture.
¡Feliz Día de Muertos! 
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Whether you believe the dead come back to visit us or not, the Día de Muertos ofrenda is a beautiful tradition that helps us honor and keep alive the memory of our loved ones who are no longer among us. It’s also important to remember that it is not a sad and solemn occasion where we commemorate death. On the contrary, it’s a festive time to celebrate life and laugh at death in the face of our own mortality.
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