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Especially the one(s) in your home town! History lives through us. Love each other and fight for a better world!
Taken when I was in Paris.

@uge

Mar 15, 2025

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Green-wood cemetery

I have family buried here from generations ago. My grandmother told me that before she got sick. I thought she was lying. One day I came across my uncommon name (with an even more uncommon spelling) on a sequence of graves, and it turns out that she was right. Even though our family has scattered in the generations since, this is one place I can return to feel close to my bloodline, to feel like I am in the right place.
It’s a beautiful cemetery & it’s nice to come home to where our experiment (unsuccessful as it sometimes feels) in being happy began.

@florinegrassenhopper

Mar 19, 2025

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VISITING THE CEMETERY OF MY ANCESTORS AFTER I HAD A CONFLICT WITH MY MOM

i can make jokes its like a soap opera but it isn't - it's refreshing to go there and feel though how you are still alive, so is she, and that's all that matters.
I'd do it more often, post conflict ritual. I'd like to do it with her too, if it would be peaceful.

@alxdimmension

Jun 15, 2025

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LOOKING UP THE PEOPLE ON HEADSTONES AT CEMETERIES

I had to go to Greenwood Cemetery for a class last semester, and many famous people like Leonard Bernstein and Jean-Michel Basquiat are buried there, but I stumbled upon this woman’s grave that read “FORTUNATE DESPERATE TRUSTFUL” and I was so upset by the idea of someone putting desperate on my grave that I had to look her up. her name was Eleonora Duse, apparently she was often known as just Duse (so chic), she was an amazing Italian actress, muse, and, importantly, was involved in numerous lesbian love affairs. I think it’s in many ways much more respectful to learn about the people you pass by, rather than just letting them go on unacknowledged and unknown.