Good2Go2Mexico: casa de la cultura

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Cut to the Quick

Buenas tardes! I am going through some boxes that I plan to move into one of the soon to be locked and secured rooms. OMG! Look what I found. It is only a year out dated. It smells just a little stale. But who cares!!!!! And it happens to be my favorite and even though I have pretty much stopped drinking regular coffee because of high blood pressure.............WHO CARES!

So, I had a cup.

Here is one of the lovely doors. It cost about sixty dollars. I would ask Senor what kind of wood it is but he is snoozing on the bed behind me. He has worked very hard all morning, ever since we discovered the doors do not really fit in either of the places we want them. He just woke up..................pine, he says.

One will go in here........the closet of the master bedroom.

One will go here....................the laundry room and where I cut and fire glass.

Senor cut seven inches off each door, still a steal, don't you think................ sixty bucks?
He also had to drill holes for the locks. Yesterday we ordered the stain and he picked it up this morning. Sometime after my siesta, I will stain the door jams.

You must be wondering. why are we doing this? Why all of a sudden?

Let me cut to the quick...........we were robbed.

Among the missing:
two of Senor's favorite drills, the new tent I bought at the WalMart in Obregon which cost much more than one pine door, two bottles of white wine, five cartons of Breton's crackers, and one large potted palm.

I think there is more, but I just have not discovered it yet.

We are not always as smart as we think we are. Often, when we go to the Tiangus on Sunday, we only lock the screen doors. At night we have been sleeping in an air conditioned bedroom while fifteen feet away, the screen door to the kitchen tool room is locked, but the heavy metal door is not. Sometime, who really knows..................day or night, someone punched a hole through the screen, unlocked the door and walked in and then, walked out with our stuff.

We always lock the doors now. We have learned a valuable lesson. Only now, several days after the event can we talk sanely about it. So, now you know.

Speaking of events, not that the one above really qualifies as one, I went to a remarkable event up on Loma Guadalupe at the Casa de la Cultura. I have told you about the building and you have seen pictures. The building was built around 1886 and was once the carcel, or jail. Now it is the culture center. It still has its crumbling adobe walls in places and some roofs are missing, but it can be a destination for exciting attractions.

The director of our museum, with the help of some local school children, recently created a sculpture out of toy guns that were donated to this project by children throughout Sonora. The project, called La Paloma, the dove, coincided with a week long celebration of Mexico's famous actress, Maria Felix, and the publications of several books written by local Mexican authors. The celebration took place at the culture center below.

Senor, on the bench below, and behind him to the left of the trees, you can just barely see the church.................this is an older photo and now, the benches and walkways have been reconstructed and are very charming.

views from the center are magnificent................

Inside the center is La Paloma.................

Around two hundred people attended the unveiling of La Paloma........................

Many dignitaries from the state of Sonora were there and school children who worked on the project received certificates.........................Procedure and recognition are extremely important in Mexico. Each dignitary presented his or her own speech. Each child was also given the opportunity to make a speech. It was very evident who in the crowd was a proud wife, husband, father or mother, aunt or uncle, grandmother or grandfather, sister or brother. Clearly, most of the speeches focused on the importance of the continued teaching to children of Sonora that everyone should live in peace, without guns or violence.

Afterward, Las Estudiantinas performed for us and an endless feast was served...............

Among the other events that week, were nightly films in which Maria Felix starred, musical shops, film making classes, dances and my favorite, a paper flower making class.

Below, we are getting ready to make the flowers.

I made three...................... two of them fell apart and I had to have help putting them back together........................... below, I am confident I can make more...................some other day.