Living On

http://www.nanzan-u.ac.jp/SHUBUNKEN/publications/jjrs/pdf/135.pdf
This is a page about a very sweet practice that Japanese Buddhists have to celebrate the life of those kids who didn't live or didn't live for long. Somehow, researching this ceremony made sense in this week of tremendous loss. Here is a blog that has photos of statues with knitted caps on them. It is beyond evocative...it is sweetness itself.
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