Spent some time at El Centro this past week; first parent night, where I'm still kicking myself for not bringing my camera. The kids performed between presentations, the first one being where CP came out wearing a big "V" sandwich board, followed by an "O" and a "T" and an "E" and then launched into a rousing song and chant, half spanish half english (as was the rest of the night). A bunch of four year olds yelling VOTE, VOTE, VOTE! is a sight to behold. In between was halloween and then on the weekend was the "day of the dead" celebration, where the video is from. We don't have anything like it in our culture, where we take a day to honor the dead (on whose lives ours are built). We honor specific dead, like presidents or veterans, but no global civilian populist honoring of the dead. And god knows we all have them in our lives (and are moving in that general direction).
Sunday, November 2, 2008
sugar skulls
Saturday, November 10, 2007
gone trick-or-treating
GDT's Halloweeen Headquarters
A couple of halloween and post halloween photos. CP, now three, totally remembers last year. Especially that one house with the really spooky sounds and body parts spilling from a tipped over wheelbarrow and strewn across the yard as a ghoulish man dragging an axe lurches illuminated by a strobe light... sending the kids running and crying I want to go home! I want to go home! Now!! effectively putting a spectacular end, amidst consoling explanations, to last years trick or treating. We ran into Joe this year before we got there and he said, "yeah, they toned it down this year—the demonic element is gone." Which was pretty much a perfect description and true enough—no tears this year, just full sized Butterfingers.
Monday, October 29, 2007
Happy Halloween!
After involved negotiations and lengthy deliberations, we finally arrived at a win-win, (or happy-happy) decision: Princess by day, Frog at night. ( :
As for me I'm going as a pirate so I can say "Whhhaaaaat?! I'm a pirate" when I go around the neighborhood stealing kids candy...
