Mark the thinning veil with a quiet vigil and offerings for the honoured dead.

1. Set a black cloth, a bowl of water, a candle, and a photo/object of an ancestor.
2. Speak names. Pour water; light the candle. Sit in silence and listen.
3. Offer bread or whiskey; say what you carry forward from them.
4. Extinguish with thanks; leave the offering at a tree by dawn.

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