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Part 2!!

IT'S A DONE DEAL. AmericanBaby, the youngest blogger on Mo'time has been born and she is gaaawwwjiss! Well, she's from New Yawk. Congratulations to the parents and warmest fuzziest wishes for Hope.

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Once upon a blog, part 1

Ladies and gentlemen, and children of all ages... step right up and get ready to welcome the first baby born to a Mo'timer, having been cheered on by other Mo'timers through the entire pregnancy. I think that I speak for a lot of people as I take stock of the fact that this little community gets less virtual and more real day by day. Yes, our own AmericanGirl is giving birth by caesarean section to AmericanBaby in New York, Wednesday, November 30, 2005! There's not a dry eye in the house as AmericanGirl is a well-loved member of this digital village. Congrats AmericanGirl and husband, soon there will be little person to get to know.

Watching people come together like this is very satisfying to me. I've had the pleasure of being here when we opened our doors and have seen many people come and go, and stay. I have had the most incredible ride --  reading the words and looking at the images that you people have put on your blogs -- incredible stuff about art and joy, illness and death, fear and loathing, animal and mineral and the intangible essence of what it means to be human. I fantasize about having a rolling Mo'time party that would start out here in Italy and travel all around the world, gathering people as we go until we all return to, to, to a place as yet to be decided for a really wild finale.

I hope to be able to write part 2 tomorrow -- with some great news.

posted by: howard at 23:35 | link | comments (14) |
news, community

Alholowmesse, Samhain, El Día de los Muertos

The origins of the holiday: According to the History Channel, "Halloween's origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-in). The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom, and northern France, celebrated their new year on November 1... Celts believed that on the night before the new year, the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred."

Read more...

Check out these links to read the open-source encyclopedia "wikipedia" on Halloween and the Mexican El Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead).

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