Day of the Dead---Calavera de la Catrina

I admire this man for bringing this art to us, I have a couple of examples here to show what catrina look like in my art.
the original catarina that José Guadalupe Posada, La Calavera Catrina design



the modern catrina in a tattoo

José Guadalupe Posada "Calavera de la Catrina"José Guadalupe Posada (2 February 1851 – 20 January 1913) was a Mexican engraver and illustrator.He was born in the city of Aguascalientes, where he learned the art of lithography and, by 1871, was working for a local newspaper called El Jicote ("The Hornet"). After a few years, he eventually joined the staff of the Mexico City publishing firm of Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, creating various book covers and illustrations. Much of his work was also published in sensationalistic broadsides depicting various current events.Posada's best known works are his calaveras, or skeletons, which often assume various costumes, such as the Calavera de la Catrina, the "Skeleton of the Female Dandy", which was meant to satirize the life of the upper classes during the reign of Porfirio Díaz. This figures is often depicted wearing a hat with a large (ostrich) feather. Most of his imagery was meant to make a religious or satirical point. Since his death, however, his images have become associated with the Mexican holiday Día de los Muertos, the "Day of the Dead". They draw on medieval art traditions of the danse macabre and Native American motifs.Largely forgotten by the end of his life, Posada's engravings were brought to a wider audience in the 1920s by the French artist Jean Charlot, who encountered them while visiting Diego Rivera. While Posada died in poverty, his images are well known today as examples of folk art. The muralist José Clemente Orozco knew Posada when he was young, and credited Posada's work as an influence on his own.










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trick-or-treating

Halloween (or Hallowe'en) is an annual holiday observed on October 31, which commonly includes activities such as trick-or-treating, attending costume parties, carving jack-o'-lanterns, bonfires, apple bobbing, visiting haunted attractions, playing pranks, telling scary stories, and watching horror films.
Trick'O'Treating, like Halloween, can be traced back to All Souls Day, a long time ago. All the poor people would go out at night to people's homes begging and the people would give them treats called soul cakes. After a while of this happening, times changed and the children became the beggars. As they went to different houses, they would be given fruit, bread, and maybe money. Now, when the custom came to America, the children would be given candy to prevent the people from being tricked. It was tradition that if a person did not give the child candy, the child would play a trick on them, such as egging their houseHalloween History and Origins of Trick or Treat

"Trick or treat" has become the most popular activity among the many forms of Halloween celebrations in America, and it is also a rather recent development. Trick or treating has been around less than a hundred years. Having children going door-to-door to get sweet treats has developed into a community wide event.
The best clue for how trick or treat got started comes to us from the Middle, or Dark Ages, when the Catholic church approved the act of "souling". This event was devised so that beggars could go around asking for food, usually barley or oat cakes, in exchange for prayers. The Catholic church said the prayers were an extra bit of "insurance" that a dead person's spirit would be given entry into heaven. Soul Cake day is no longer in common practice in England, but it is still rather popular in Scotland and Ireland and from this, it is believed, the concept of trick or treat arose.
Trick or treating didn't start happening in America until sometime in the early part of the 20th century. It was first found in magazines and papers in the latter part of the 1930's. Throughout the 1940's trick or treat started to get into full swing due to many of the children's books and TV shows. In 1952, Walt Disney permanently burned it into the minds and hearts of America when his cartoon, Trick or Treat debuted. Trick or treat was here to stay.
Trick or treating became more widely practiced throughout the 20th century. In recent years many people have started to have issues with the "trick" bit. The original idea was that if you did not give a "treat" to the trick or treaters they would then play a "trick" on you. While egging house or car windows or papering someone's house or tree could be considered harmless fun, the increase of vandalism for the sake of the "trick" has caused trick or treating to actually be banned in some areas.
Dressing up in a costume for Halloween celebrations and trick or treating is an American invention and probably resulted from the success seen with Christmas products that began in the 1880's.
These days communities set a certain night for trick or treat. They set a time for it to take place and many will even place an age limit for the trick or treaters. Trick or treat became a bit dangerous in the late 1980's when a few vicious and mean-spirited people began to embed razor blades, and poisonous drugs into the candy that was given out. This terrible and senseless tragedy has forever changed the fun of trick or treating and as a result people started to find other safer ways to celebrate the holiday. While trick or treat started as great fun for all ages who took part, sadly, it is quite likely that the practice will not last through another hundred years

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Mexican Independence Day

Mexican Independence Day
16 de Septiembre:
El Grito de Independencia
The Grito de Dolores ("Cry of Dolores") also known as El Grito de la Independencia ("Cry of Independence"), uttered from the small town of Dolores, near Guanajuato on September 16, 1810 is the event that marks the beginning of the Mexican War of Independence and is the most important national holiday observed in Mexico. The ceremony reaches the high point when the crowd joins in proudly shouting out the names of the heroes of our Independence, to end with the exciting VIVA MÉXICO
Mexican Independence Day History
In the year 1500, Spain conquered Mexico and named it New Spain. Life was hard under Spanish rule and many of the native Mexicans (Mayas and Aztecs) were forced into slavery. More than 300 years later, on September 16, 1810, a priest named Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla started a revolt against the Spanish. The Spanish were finally defeated in 1821 and now Mexican Independence is celebrated every year to remember the beginning of the struggle for freedom.
Celebrating Mexican Independence Day
Mexican Independence Day is one of the biggest holidays in Mexico. Much like the Fourth of July, people celebrate with food, songs, fireworks, and - of course - a day off school.
In the early nineteenth century, Mexico, with a little influence from the US and France, began talking about a revolt against Spain. Father Miguel Hidalgo from Dolores, Mexico, was a leader of one of the rallying groups. Hidalgo and his officers were planning a revolt for late fall of 1810. The Spanish people found out about the revolt which led the Spanish Government to order the arrest of Hidalgo and his officers. When Hidalgo found out, he called a meeting at his church. He rang the church bell on the night of September 15, 1810 to call his congregation to mass. Here Father Hidalgo rallied the people to fight. He gave the speech which is now known as 'Grito de Delores', saying "Viva Mexico" and "Viva la independencia!" These famous words have been remembered and are said each year at the Independence Day celebrations.


Everyone fought together, including the Criollos (wealthy Mexicans of Spanish descent), Mesizos (children born from the marriage of a Spaniard and an Indian), and Indians. Armed with clubs, knives, stone slings, and ancient guns, they fought as they marched to Mexico City. A battle took place in Guanajuato between the Spanish soldiers and Hidalgo's followers. The army sacked the town, killing the Spaniards. They continued to fight on their way to the capital. When they finally reached Mexico City, the army hesitated before going in to fight and some of them even disserted the army. Before the year was over Father Hidalgo was captured and executed. Some people continued to fight for the cause and Father Hidalgo's Grito de Delores (Cry of Delores) became the battle cry of the Mexican War of Independence. The people fought for eleven years before they finally won their freedom.


Today Mexican Independence Day is a major celebration in Mexico and is bigger than Cinco de Mayo. It is celebrated with a fiesta (party). The celebrating begins on September 15 (the eve of Independence Day) where crowds of people gather in the zocalos (town meeting place) of cities, towns, and villages. In Mexico City a huge square is decorated with flags, flowers and lights of red, white, and green. People sell confetti, whistles, horns, paper-machete helmets, and toys in the colors of red, white and green. There is also plenty of feasting! When the clock strikes eleven o'clock the crowd gets silent. On the last strike of eleven the president of Mexico steps out on the palace balcony, and rings the historic liberty bell that Father Hidalgo rang to call the people. Then the president gives the Grito de Delores. He shouts "Viva Mexico" "Viva la independencia" and the crowd echoes back. People do this at the same time all across Mexico. While the crowd says this they fill the air with confetti, streamers and hoopla. Castillos explode in showers of red, white, and green.


The actual day of September 16 is similar to July Fourth in the US. There are rodeos, parades, bullfights, horseback rider performances and grand feasts. The statues in memory of Father Hidalgo are decorated with red, white, and green flowers. The Mexican Flag is made up of green, white, and red. The green is on the left side of the flag and symbolizes independence. White is the color in the middle of the flag and symbolizes religion. The red is on the right side of the flag and symbolizes union. These colors are used often in decorating for the Mexican Independence Day fiesta.

RENTER

We have rental property (Duplex) in Corpus Christ. and one of renters decided that she could live there for free a couple of months. She did not pay the rent and I called to ask her if she was going to pay or move out, so I asked her to move along if she was not sending the money , will guess what she told me she said that she had rights and she was not going to pay and she will move out when she is ready!!!!!!! I wanted to scream !!!!! WHAT THE &*%$^%&*(*^& I told her I was going to to get her evicted and she said go ahead she had rights ,,,So I went to see the Justice of the Peace in Calallen 6/6/11 and yea she had rights, I had to pay $106.00 (eviction filing fee and a service fee for a constable to put a letter on the door of the duplex) and the set up a court date and for them to send her a letter about her eviction and the court date which was set up for 6/30/11 (24 days later). So I arrived at the court house and sure enough she did not show up, and she was still living at the duplex.. now she had 5 days to leave the property which meant that she had until July 5 because of the Holiday to live there with out paying. And to top things off I could not go and check the property because she could call the police and call it harassment. OK so I waited patiently until the 6 of July to go and check things out praying that she left, with my surprise she had left some furniture in the house and left the washer connection on so I had about 1" of water in the dining room. So I had to go back to the court house and pay $165.00 so the Constable to put another sign that she now had 24 hours to get her things out. Now I am PUSHED and talking *&^%^&$^$*&#@ this is bull shit,,, OK so again I waited so I called the constable office to make sure that they posted the sign July 6, NO they told me because they were so behind and that they will post it on Friday July 8, which meant that now she had till July 11 to get all her things out. I still could not go to the duplex until July 13. On July 13 we met with the Constable to remove her items from the duplex and all the stuff, mattress,baby bed, junk all had to be placed on the curb for 24 hours before we could put in the trash, because she still had another 24 hours to pick up her stuff from the curb. As soon as the Constable left the duplex people were picking up the stuff off the curb. So finally after a long process it over and now the fun begins with the clean up ....

seeking and seeing the Light in a world of darkness

Do you remember the words of Martin Luther as he lay
on his deathbed? Between groans he preached, 'These
pains and troubles here are like the type that printers
set. When we look at them, we see them backwards, and
they seem to make no sense and have no meaning. But
up there, when the Lord God prints out our life to
come, we will find they make splendid reading. 'Yet
we do not have to wait until then. The apostle Paul,
walking the deck of a ship on a raging sea, encouraged
the frightened sailors, 'Be of good cheer.' (Acts 27:22)
(King James Version)
Paul, Martin Luther, and the dear black woman were all
human sunflowers, seeking and seeing the Light in a
world of darkness." (William C. Garnett)
(Taken from Streams In The Desert - L. B. Cowman