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Weekly Photo Challenge: Culture-Dia de los Muertos

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Dia de los Muertos

Day of the Dead(Spanish: Día de los Muertos) is a Mexican holiday celebrated throughout Mexico and around the world in other cultures. The holiday focuses on gatherings of family and friends at the gravesight of their dearly departed. They pray for the people who have died. It’s a national holiday celebrated in November.

Traditionally, family and friends go to cemeteries to be with the souls of the departed. They create private altars containing their favorite foods and beverages, photos and memorabilia. The intent is to encourage visits by the souls of the departed. Prayers and comments from the living are directed to the souls. Celebrations can take on a humorous tone, as celebrants remember funny events and anecdotes of the departed.

We purchased this lovely couple when we visited Cozumel, Mexico on our 45th anniversary. Many people have seen it in our home. They are…

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Street Art – Selfie

Isadora Art and Photography

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An artist using technology to create a Selfie. She had her camera set up so we could take a photo of her taking a photo of herself. It was so ingenious.

On a recent outing with my hubby, we came across a Street Art Festival in Sarasota, Florida. The weather was incredibly beautiful. The skies a quiet blue with puffy white clouds and a soothing breeze to keep everyone comfortable as they meandered among the artwork being created by artists from all over the United States. There was a high school and grammar school area for those promising new artists; plus a children area where they got to make their own creations.


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Equipped with a few colorful chalks and an image to copy the creations soared.

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Street Art - Glenn Miller.web
Glenn Miller was a great band leader who volunteered for service in 1942, leading the army Air Force Band. While en route to…

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My Dinner with Allen Ginsberg

The Fall Creek Review

by RON SCHEER

Allen Ginsberg Photo of Allen Ginsberg from Revista de Cultura.

The Beat 1950s were over, crowded out by the Beatles, the assassination of JFK, Vietnam, LSD, Flower Power, and Easy Rider. Jack Kerouac had just died at 47 of drink and Catholic bad karma, and so had Neal Cassady at 41, while on the road in Mexico. It was 1969 or 1970. And I, in my first year as a college teacher in northern Pennsylvania, was having dinner with Allen Ginsberg.

Allen had accepted a spot on the college’s speakers series and would fill an auditorium for an hour on the following day. A colleague in the English Department had picked him up at the Elmira airport and was entertaining him for the evening. Would I care to make a fourth for dinner?

I didn’t know what to expect. A diffident soul finishing a doctoral dissertation on…

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Vintage Bookstore Watercolor

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Brotherly Love

Today’s watercolor sketch is one I did a couple of years ago from my bookstore photographs.

Not only do I love photography and books, but bookstores also happen to be my favorite places to visit.  When I first lived in New York City, there were a lot of them: Argosy Book Store, near Park Avenue at 57th Street, Last Exit, near Tompkins Square, The Colosseum Book Store near Columbus Circle, The Gotham Bookstore, somewhere in mid-town, The Gryphon on the Upper West Side, and many others.  To me, it is so sad that there are so few of them left.  I must be old school, but I just can’t seem to get used to reading a book on my computer, and it is just so creepy having to buy a license to read a book on one of those dedicated book readers, that I just haven’t done it. The…

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Work that is meaningful…….

A Bat In The Attic

I meant to write these thoughts out last night.   Instead, I fell asleep to a bed time story my son was reading to me.    If you are a parent, you know how amazing it is when your children take to reading.    If you are not a parent, imagine the person you love most in this world reading your favorite story or poem to you.

The thoughts that were erased the second Piggie told Elephant he had a bird on his head were this………

Don’t be lazy.   Pick a lifestyle that is rewarding.   Take pride in what you do.

I had lunch today with a friend who recently discovered farming.    She has not taken the plunge in that direction yet.    However, it did make her re-evaluate where she is now.  The folks on the farm had a sense of accomplishment for hard work at the end of their days.   They had…

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