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To The Ashes, To The Soil, I Gladly Return

Chris Fici | Posted 04.19.2013 | Religion
Read More: Ecofeminism, Yoga, Food Justice, Hinduism, Bhakti, Ecological Crisis, Ecology, Krishna, Bhakti Yoga, Meditation, Ecological Activism, Vandana Shiva, Soil. Dirt, Tilaka, Ash Wednesday, Ashes, Lent 2013, Valentine's Day, Religion News
Chris Fici

I appreciated the dirtiness of our Ash Wednesday retreat, and by dirtiness I mean the reminder that the soil, the ground, and the earth that is the very foundation of our bodily existence is something that we must not lose touch with.

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Song for My Father

Doug Bradley | Posted 01.01.2013 | Fifty
Read More: Anniversary-of-Death, Death & Dying, Grief, Fathers and Sons, Dealing With Death, Sadness, Cremation, Fathers, Ashes, Video, Fifty News
Doug Bradley

My father's voice was like an instrument and I loved it, loved listening to it, especially in the shower when he would catch just the right echo, just the right timbre, the acoustics so perfect that it sounded like he was singing a duet or was on stage in a 1940s nightclub.

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THE DUDE ABIDES: Man Orders Bowling Ball Urn For His Ashes

AP | Posted 08.10.2012 | Weird News
Read More: The Dude Abides, Video, Weird Pennsylvania, Bowling Ball, Tony Guarino, Bowling Ball Urn, Bowling Ball Ashes, Urns, Ashes, Weird News News

TURTLE CREEK, Pa. -- A Pittsburgh-area bowling fanatic has gotten a Utah company to fashion a bowling ball urn for his ashes. Company official Mike S...

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Moving Company Withholds Ashes Of Widow's Dead Husband

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 08.01.2012 | Business
Read More: Video, Movers, Moving Companies, Transportation Department, President Obama, Toni Searcy, Northern Van Lines, Moving Company Abuse, Slideexpand, Ashes, Business News

After losing her husband of 40 years, Toni Searcy couldn’t bear living in the same house she’d made a lifetime of memories in. But initiating her ...

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Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust

Rev. Eleanor Harrison Bregman | Posted 04.23.2012 | Religion
Read More: Mortality, Ashes, Gratitude, Ash Wednesday, Religion News
Rev. Eleanor Harrison Bregman

Yes, there is a need for introspection and repenting - I don't want to minimize that. But my tradition also promises a Love that will hold us all forever, in life and in death.

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Baby's Stolen Ashes Found On Oahu Beach

AP | By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER | Posted 12.17.2011 | Crime
Read More: Caroline Sluyter, Video, Burglary, Honolulu Crime, Leimomi Kahele, Hawaii Crime, Burglar, Hawaii, Baby's Ashes, Honolulu, Ashes, Crime News

HONOLULU -- An infant's ashes that were stolen from a Hawaii home have been found at a beach and returned to the baby's mother, who thinks their caref...

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Brooklyn Cop Returns Stolen Ashes To Granddaughter

www.nydailynews.com | JOHN DOYLE, CORKY SIEMASZKO | Posted 01.04.2012 | Impact
Read More: Stolen Ashes, Brooklyn Cop, Park Slope, Officer Jamie Gifkins, Brooklyn, Lillian Tracy, Hero, Ashes, Impact News

A Brooklyn woman who thought the ashes of her beloved grandmother were lost forever when a thief stole the makeshift urn from her car was reunited Thu...

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Wisconsin Man Loses Relatives' Ashes When Car Is Towed

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Read More: Wisconsin, Wisconsin News, Ashes Towed, Shawn Leslie, Cremation, Car Towed, Wisconsin Man Ashes, Ashes, Chicago News

MADISON, Wis. — A Wisconsin man has lost his father's and grandfather's ashes when the car where they were stored was towed and destroyed. Waus...

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