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Seeing Beyond Sight Photo Challenge by gh◌st ᵰⱥ₥ing
October 8th, 2010 8:53 PM
The history of life is the history of its being endangered, the endangering of life by life, as much as it is the development and strengthening of life through danger. We can describe human history equally well as a long development or as a long disease.
-Miroslav Holub
Shedding Life
Christ Church
I feel an invisible pressure guiding me, neither more so nor less, with my eyes, without my sight.
The illnesses and diseases of the past have shaped the health and well-being of the present. The illnesses and disease of the present will shape the health and well-being of the future.
Bohemian National
Bohemian National Cemetery was started because a 19th century Catholic priest was refusing to bury Catholics he disliked.
Can you imagine how disgusting that would be for anyone who loved a person he disliked?
This cemetery is available to all religions, nationalities and races. If by chance we aren't all equal in death, at least let us escape such petty cruelties.
Arch Street Meeting House
In the summer of 1798, a fever struck the city of Philadelphia. The Quaker cemetery on Arch Street, by necessity, was opened to all. Twenty thousand (20,000) people were buried in layers, in an unmarked, mass grave. The official, exclusively Quaker cemetery was relocated.
Six years later, still owning the ground (which had originally been donated by William Penn in 1693 for the purposes of Quaker burial), the Society of Friends built a meeting house on the spot. It has no basement. Meetings are still held there today.
Christ Church Cemetery
What does fame do for you when you die? Adults pay to $2 to stroll by the graves of famed Americans at this site. Money in the face of Death reminds me of a small church I visited in Rome years ago. There was a display in a darkened side chapel. To see what was there you could deposit a euro into the coin-operated spotlight they had rigged up. Behind glass in a display was a bit of the pillar where Christ was scourged.
St. Luke Cemetery
This is a cemetery of Saint Luke, patron of artists, physicians, surgeons, students, and butchers. His feast day is October 18th.
I have known at least two people named Luke who thought I was hellbound. Literally.
Montrose
Cemetery
I love the big empty unfinished fields available in newer cemeteries.
Promise for the future.
Bethel
Cemetery
While this particular Bethel graveyard looks rather small, it felt enormous.
Cars are basically always terrifying. More so when you can't see them.
Wunder's Cemetery
"Read your own obituary notice; they say you live longer. Gives you second wind. New lease of life."
-Joyce
"It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness."
-Milton
"Life itself is a quotation."
-Borges
Jewish
Graceland
This was my favorite.
A bit more wild and woolly.
This was the only cemetery I visited that had no roadways for car traffic, which was an incredible relief. It also seemed to be completely deserted.
Graceland Cemetery
When it was originally established in 1860, Graceland was two miles outside of city limits. Here is what we have from Sandburg on the matter:
TOMB of a millionaire,
A multi-millionaire, ladies and gentlemen,
Place of the dead where they spend every year
The usury of twenty-five thousand dollars
For upkeep and flowers
To keep fresh the memory of the dead.
The merchant prince gone to dust
Commanded in his written will
Over the signed name of his last testament
Twenty-five thousand dollars be set aside
For roses, lilacs, hydrangeas, tulips,
For perfume and color, sweetness of remembrance
Around his last long home.
(A hundred cash girls want nickels to go to the movies to-night.
In the back stalls of a hundred saloons, women are at tables
Drinking with men or waiting for men jingling loose
silver dollars in their pockets.
In a hundred furnished rooms is a girl who sells silk or
dress goods or leather stuff for six dollars a week wages
And when she pulls on her stockings in the morning she
is reckless about God and the newspapers and the
police, the talk of her home town or the name
people call her.)
St. Boniface
Cemetery
Maybe St. Boniface came up with the Christmas tree?
At any rate, he is said to have chopped down a tree thought be to Jupiter's or Thor's or something, in a staged publicity event in order to confront and disprove the existance of the old (heathen) gods. He chopped down a tree, Jupiter didn't slay him, heathens were amazed and converted to Christianity.
Boniface was not slayed by Jupiter, but he was slayed by highwaymen who believed that he was carrying gold and riches with him on his travels. They were scandalized when they discovered the newly dead Boniface was only transporting his books. They promptly scattered these worthless leaves in the forest.
City Cemetery
One of the first European-style cemeteries in the Big Onion was City Cemetery, located by the Green Bay beach ridge and stretching north of North Avenue.
Due to it's proximity to the city's water supply (and the rapidly rising property values of the land), City Cemetery was forcibly condemned by the fledgling sanitation department. Eight years after this, bodies were still going into the ground.
After lawsuits and subsequent payouts, the city finally managed to close a deal for the land, and bodies began being carted out to newly organized grounds such as Graceland, Rosehill, and Wunder's.
The land was then briefly christened "Lake Park". Soon after Death's hand renamed the land again.
Today, this land is Lincoln Park.
Rosehill Cemetery
Expiration and reformation permanently surrounds this spin.
I tied myself up, set myself loose, and stumbled into more than a couple gravestones.
They're there everywhere. Just don't think about it. Or do.
And so I have found, repeatedly, a jolting sensitivity in this environment. I knew much more so when the sun was to my side, my face, my back. And I knew and know, I am much more fearful of that which I cannot see.
The End.
-Miroslav Holub
Shedding Life
Christ Church
I feel an invisible pressure guiding me, neither more so nor less, with my eyes, without my sight.The illnesses and diseases of the past have shaped the health and well-being of the present. The illnesses and disease of the present will shape the health and well-being of the future.Bohemian National
Bohemian National Cemetery was started because a 19th century Catholic priest was refusing to bury Catholics he disliked.Can you imagine how disgusting that would be for anyone who loved a person he disliked?This cemetery is available to all religions, nationalities and races. If by chance we aren't all equal in death, at least let us escape such petty cruelties.Arch Street Meeting House
In the summer of 1798, a fever struck the city of Philadelphia. The Quaker cemetery on Arch Street, by necessity, was opened to all. Twenty thousand (20,000) people were buried in layers, in an unmarked, mass grave. The official, exclusively Quaker cemetery was relocated.Six years later, still owning the ground (which had originally been donated by William Penn in 1693 for the purposes of Quaker burial), the Society of Friends built a meeting house on the spot. It has no basement. Meetings are still held there today.Christ Church Cemetery
What does fame do for you when you die? Adults pay to $2 to stroll by the graves of famed Americans at this site. Money in the face of Death reminds me of a small church I visited in Rome years ago. There was a display in a darkened side chapel. To see what was there you could deposit a euro into the coin-operated spotlight they had rigged up. Behind glass in a display was a bit of the pillar where Christ was scourged.St. Luke Cemetery
This is a cemetery of Saint Luke, patron of artists, physicians, surgeons, students, and butchers. His feast day is October 18th.I have known at least two people named Luke who thought I was hellbound. Literally.Montrose
Cemetery
I love the big empty unfinished fields available in newer cemeteries. Promise for the future.Bethel
Cemetery
While this particular Bethel graveyard looks rather small, it felt enormous.Cars are basically always terrifying. More so when you can't see them.Wunder's Cemetery
"Read your own obituary notice; they say you live longer. Gives you second wind. New lease of life." -Joyce
"It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness."-Milton
"Life itself is a quotation."-Borges
Jewish
Graceland
This was my favorite.A bit more wild and woolly.This was the only cemetery I visited that had no roadways for car traffic, which was an incredible relief. It also seemed to be completely deserted.
Graceland Cemetery
When it was originally established in 1860, Graceland was two miles outside of city limits. Here is what we have from Sandburg on the matter:TOMB of a millionaire,A multi-millionaire, ladies and gentlemen,
Place of the dead where they spend every year
The usury of twenty-five thousand dollars
For upkeep and flowers
To keep fresh the memory of the dead.
The merchant prince gone to dust
Commanded in his written will
Over the signed name of his last testament
Twenty-five thousand dollars be set aside
For roses, lilacs, hydrangeas, tulips,
For perfume and color, sweetness of remembrance
Around his last long home.
(A hundred cash girls want nickels to go to the movies to-night.
In the back stalls of a hundred saloons, women are at tables
Drinking with men or waiting for men jingling loose
silver dollars in their pockets.
In a hundred furnished rooms is a girl who sells silk or
dress goods or leather stuff for six dollars a week wages
And when she pulls on her stockings in the morning she
is reckless about God and the newspapers and the
police, the talk of her home town or the name
people call her.)
St. Boniface
Cemetery
Maybe St. Boniface came up with the Christmas tree?At any rate, he is said to have chopped down a tree thought be to Jupiter's or Thor's or something, in a staged publicity event in order to confront and disprove the existance of the old (heathen) gods. He chopped down a tree, Jupiter didn't slay him, heathens were amazed and converted to Christianity.Boniface was not slayed by Jupiter, but he was slayed by highwaymen who believed that he was carrying gold and riches with him on his travels. They were scandalized when they discovered the newly dead Boniface was only transporting his books. They promptly scattered these worthless leaves in the forest.City Cemetery
One of the first European-style cemeteries in the Big Onion was City Cemetery, located by the Green Bay beach ridge and stretching north of North Avenue.Due to it's proximity to the city's water supply (and the rapidly rising property values of the land), City Cemetery was forcibly condemned by the fledgling sanitation department. Eight years after this, bodies were still going into the ground. After lawsuits and subsequent payouts, the city finally managed to close a deal for the land, and bodies began being carted out to newly organized grounds such as Graceland, Rosehill, and Wunder's.
The land was then briefly christened "Lake Park". Soon after Death's hand renamed the land again.Today, this land is Lincoln Park.Rosehill Cemetery
Expiration and reformation permanently surrounds this spin.I tied myself up, set myself loose, and stumbled into more than a couple gravestones.They're there everywhere. Just don't think about it. Or do.And so I have found, repeatedly, a jolting sensitivity in this environment. I knew much more so when the sun was to my side, my face, my back. And I knew and know, I am much more fearful of that which I cannot see.The End.
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posted by gh◌st ᵰⱥ₥ing on October 9th, 2010 8:19 PM
your support is greatly valued in such endeavors.
posted by relet 裁判長 on October 10th, 2010 3:43 AM
Please don't link to the full-size pictures. The page is almost impossible to load.
posted by gh◌st ᵰⱥ₥ing on October 10th, 2010 6:57 AM
Dear relet,
Sometimes when people see the end coming they become more difficult to deal with.
Thanks for trying.
yrs,
n
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posted by Remy The Living on May 18th, 2011 5:20 PM
We gather here today, to celebrate the life, and death, of a friend, a player, and a leader.
Ghost Naming did some of the greatest tasks any of us have ever seen, like this one. Though departed, he can, and will, stay within us all, and for those who were too young, we will tell of the legend of Naming. Though the vows are belated, I hope that we can all remember this Ghost as one of our beloved friends, despite his loyalties.
Here Lies Naming
Lover of Everyday Life
Loyal Member of The Ørder of the Wild Onion
Bitter Foe of Those Who Displease Him
Born - December 11, 2009
Deceased - October 21, 2010
posted by Pixie on May 18th, 2011 7:42 PM
I will and do remember. And wether he knows it or not, I miss him dearly
If you are indeed hellbound, I will do my best to keep you company.