Comments on: Day of the Dead Enriches the Living http://www.gretemangroup.com/blog/index.php/2009/10/day-of-the-dead-enriches-the-living/ Altitude Attitude Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:27:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Cass Bruton http://www.gretemangroup.com/blog/index.php/2009/10/day-of-the-dead-enriches-the-living/comment-page-1/#comment-9754 Cass Bruton Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:37:02 +0000 http://www.gretemangroup.com/blog/?p=1306#comment-9754 Sonia, this is very nicely done. Thanks. I have always liked Day of the Dead too. Now that I live in white-bread northwest Kansas again (where there is, count 'em, ONE family named Garcia in the whole of my little hometown!), I never see these beautiful decorations and foods anymore. Frida Kahlo's puppets must be a delight to see up close. I was in San Francisco last September, but the Kahlo exhibit at SF's MOMA was so crowded, I opted to just skip it. Now I'm kind of kicking myself for not going in for a peek. I wonder what all was in that show. Didn't get the catalog -- duh!! Well, anyway, I digress... thank you for sharing this stuff. Oh -- one more thing, if you haven't already seen it, check out the Day of the Dead tableaux at the International Folk Art Museum in Santa Fe. Fabulous! -Cass Sonia, this is very nicely done. Thanks. I have always liked Day of the Dead too. Now that I live in white-bread northwest Kansas again (where there is, count ‘em, ONE family named Garcia in the whole of my little hometown!), I never see these beautiful decorations and foods anymore. Frida Kahlo’s puppets must be a delight to see up close. I was in San Francisco last September, but the Kahlo exhibit at SF’s MOMA was so crowded, I opted to just skip it. Now I’m kind of kicking myself for not going in for a peek. I wonder what all was in that show. Didn’t get the catalog — duh!! Well, anyway, I digress… thank you for sharing this stuff. Oh — one more thing, if you haven’t already seen it, check out the Day of the Dead tableaux at the International Folk Art Museum in Santa Fe. Fabulous! -Cass

]]> By: Karen http://www.gretemangroup.com/blog/index.php/2009/10/day-of-the-dead-enriches-the-living/comment-page-1/#comment-9443 Karen Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:36:37 +0000 http://www.gretemangroup.com/blog/?p=1306#comment-9443 Sonia, thanks for sharing a deeper perspective on another culture. I always thought of this holiday as a quirky, colorful, morbid curiosity, but you've painted a picture of the respect, commemoration and love behind it. I wish Americans had something like this, maybe I'll have to adopt a new holiday. Karen Sonia, thanks for sharing a deeper perspective on another culture. I always thought of this holiday as a quirky, colorful, morbid curiosity, but you’ve painted a picture of the respect, commemoration and love behind it. I wish Americans had something like this, maybe I’ll have to adopt a new holiday.

Karen

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