ICE SKATING

I watched the Winter Olympics last year and Ice Skating is always one of my favorite sports to watch because long ago I spent a winter season learning how. I never was able to make myself spin without falling.  

There was one woman skating to represent Hungary: Do you know her name?

THANKSGIVING is the MOST AMERICAN of ALL HOLIDAYS

Turkey wasn't always the THANKSGIVING BIRD!  In old Virginia it was the GOOSE that they ate...

Thanksgiving is the most American of Holidays for one reason; it is inclusive of people from ALL RELIGIONS including those who are not religious at all.  

This is a good time to cherish what we have, while also remembering those who do not have as much as we do.

MY HOME HUNGARY : HAZÁM MAGYARORSZÁG

CROWN OF ELIZABETH OF HUNGARY

ALL SOULS DAY IS a H U G E HOLIDAY OF ANCESTOR WORSHIP IN HUNGARY

I do my ancestor worship through genealogy and history research.  It is through this research that I have learned so much about people I never knew or even heard about because my Hungarian-heritage parent had not either. 

At one point in my research I got the impression that a spirit was watching over my shoulder as I constructed family charts. It was very quiet and there was a .. presence. 

I also had a dream during a period of intense research of someone - the hands were ghostly mist - coming to me and showing me who they were; if I ever see a photograph of the woman that those ghostly hands held I will know.

DUMNEAZU's blog here is fascinating (with wonderful pictures!) and you can link to it and find out that there is NO HALLOWEEN IN HUNGARY but ALL SOULS DAY is H U G E !