For The A to Z Challenge this year, I am focusing on everyday holidays. Each day there are multiple unusual things to celebrate. Every day of the challenge I look for an event taking place that day and pair it with the letter of the day. I have also made up 5 holidays to coincide with the vowel days of the challenge. At the end of each post I will share a special song of the day for that day's letter. At the end of the month, these songs will be assembled in a to z keepsake playlist on Spotify. Every day is a celebration, let's unwrap today's together.
April 6th is Plan Your Epitaph Day
By John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0, Link
The first Plan your Epitaph Day was in 1995.
I decided to do something a little different today in describing the holiday. Instead of using my own words I am going to use some of the text found on the Plan Your Epitaph Day webpage from Daysoftheyear.com It's not the entire text just some snippets
There comes a day in every person’s life when they have to face the inevitable,
. This day, Plan Your Own Epitaph Day, is the perfect day to set aside some time to figure out what you’re going to have to say about yourself before you’re gone.
, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link
Ludolph van Ceulen had the first 35 digits of Pi inscribed on his tombstone, as he was the first to calculate this delicious sounding number out to that many decimals.
Some of the activities you can do to celebrate this day, is go to graveyards and look for inspiration in the stones of those who have already passed.
this is one more way to collect Epitaphs that have already been written to help inspire you to write yours!
Another thing you can do to celebrate this pasttime is to have picnics in the graveyard with likeminded friends.
Together you can sit and brainstorm on what you’d like your final words to the world to be.
Plan your own Epitaph day is a day for reflection on our own mortality, and thinking forward to what kind of legacy we want to leave behind for those who come after us.
So take some time to think about where you’ve been, what you’ve done, and what you’d like to say to those who come after,
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April is also National Poetry Month. I have decided to write a poem about today's holiday. Mainly because I didn't create much of my own content today.
Today's poem will be a limerick
Today plan your own epitaph
Play it straight or go for the laugh
But don't wait 'til next June
Best to do it soon
You can't chart your last day on a graph.
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Here is another quick poem
Today's song of the day
is Fear by Lecrae
The Spotify pla list for my A to Z challenge is now a week old and 6 songs long.
Well Week 1 is in the books. Feel free to catch up on any of my posts you may have missed. In your comments, you can let me know what words you might consider as an epitaph.
5 comments:
Don't epitaphs go on tombstones? If so, I won't need one. I'll be cremated.
I have often thought of going to one of the nearby cemeteries and looking through the headstones. We have one that has quite a few famous people in it.
Janet’s Smiles
I have never heard of Epitaph Day before, but I think it's a nice way to ease yourself into thinking about that one awful thing we try to ignore for as long as possible.
In being the family historian in the family… I used to drag my kids through cemeteries. My daughter would go to school and tell them how she walked through cemeteries on summer vacation. It is interesting to read headstones and view their gravestones. Many are quite elaborate. Even though many are cremated today… everyone should have a marker… a gravestone to document their once existence. I enjoyed the read… now to ponder what my epitaph will be. Keep writing.
Epitaphs are inspiring.
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