dondo yaki 12-31-11

And when all of the celebrations are over it remains to pick up all of the ornaments - all the accessories of the celebration - and by burning them, make a celebration. This is dondo-yaki, a Shinto blessing of the debris that have a right to immortality: the last state, before their disappearance, of the poignancy of things. Abandonment must be a feast; laceration must be a feast. And the farewell to all that one has lost, broken, used must be ennobled by a ceremony.

-Chris Marker Sans Soleil

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