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...please join me in ... lighting a candle... saying a prayer... sending healing thoughts

... and surrounding my friend, Allegra, with white light...

Allegra is a wonderful, delightful, caring soul that I met thru her blog... and she is gravely ill.

...please also send warm, and caring thoughts to her husband and family...

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*photo by Elaine A. Russell

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Tonight we did something completely different for Christmas Eve. There are lots of wonderful traditions that go with the holidays... and one of the ones here in New Mexico, is to light luminarias and surround the grave sites with them... in remembrance of loved ones.
And so... we went to Mount Calvary Cemetery here in downtown ABQ... and watched as hundreds of luminarias were lit in honor of loved ones who have passed...

*photos by Elaine A. Russell

You can see a video on this here