On Thursday we attended a lantern festival in Jamaica Plain. It is a Japanese tradition to have these festivals; you decorate lanterns for a lost loved one and then at sunset you light the candle and put it out to water, sending your messages of love to the other side.
We made a special lantern for my Grandpa Taft; he's been on my mind a lot lately, so I felt this was an important even to attend. We had them write the Japanese words Love and Laughter on our lantern, then I wrote Gram a message and Berkey drew him a picture. I really miss Gramp and hope he got our message that we love and miss him every day! It was a very sweet and touching night. There were hundreds of people there to honor people or animals they have lost in the last year.
(I'm so grateful my husband goes along with my last minute plans)
Once the sun started to set everyone lit the candles in their lanterns and put them on the water. There were hundreds of lanterns floating around this little lake in Forest Hills Cemetery. It was beautiful and humbling. Isn't it wonderful that God puts so many wonderful people in our paths in life and when they go they truly are missed and the impact of that loss is great. This was such a lovely night.
We were happy to meet up with my two favorite JP people while we were there, Bob and Kelly!
I am glad Bob told me about the event, and that Kelly made time in her busy schedule to meet us there.
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