Eli
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Don Jimmy's Day of the Dead Alter 2011
Dia de Muerto's is my favorite holiday, I like it a whole lot better than Christmas. It is when we bring those we love back to us by creating images
from our memories of them. This is this years Alter for My Dad.
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krafty
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Very beautiful!
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David K
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Nice memorial Sara!
I miss your dad as well as his amigos Dave Deal and Chuck Potter. I feel so fortunate to call all three my amigos... great Baja pioneers!
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Eli
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Here are some pictures from the 2010 alter I created for Dad. I was on the road in Oaxaca doing a buying trip, so I improvised this little alter in
the back yard of a friends house where I was staying. Dad Loved the image of the Virgin de Guadalupe, so I painted it for him on an old roof tile.
[Edited on 11-7-2011 by Eli]
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DianaT
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Beautiful---lots of time and love went into that creation. Thanks for sharing it.
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Eli
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Thanks David, Krafty and Diana.
Every year for 7 years now, I create a piece for My Dad, this is the first time I have been home to put them all together. I agree Diana, it is an
act of love and time well spent, I assure you.
As I was home, so many people who knew him have visited and reawakened the Ol Man's memories, or people who have never knew him visited and I was
able to introduce them to Don Jimmy. It was a memorable Dia de Muerto this year.
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Sallysouth
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So beautiful Sara.I think I recognize the place.Your gallery?Welcome home!
Happiness is just a Baja memory away...
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Eli
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You are well ubicated Sally, yes it is at the gallery. It was there, the last year that Dad was alive when I built the first alter for several
departed friends. I remember him grabbing an oatmeal cookie off the alter and sitting there munching away contemplating my tribute to death (life). He
knew he was on his way out and of course the next year I built his little memory box while I was in Oaxaca, and so I stepped into this wonderful
tradition.
[Edited on 11-7-2011 by Eli]
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Gypsy Jan
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Hi, Eli
What a loving tribute to your father.
Love and hearts, GJ
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.”
—Mark Twain
\"La vida es dura, el corazon es puro, y cantamos hasta la madrugada.” (Life is hard, the heart is pure and we sing until dawn.)
—Kirsty MacColl, Mambo de la Luna
\"Alea iacta est.\"
—Julius Caesar
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Paulina
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Thank you for sharing. When you posted earlier that you were going to decorate for your dad I was hoping you would share the photos. Thank you very,
very much. Did you also decorate his resting place?
P>*)))>{
\"Well behaved women rarely make history.\" Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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Eli
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Paulina, yep, I finally after all these years figured out what David K was talking about when it comes to posting pictures. Here are the cemetery
photos, much simpler decoration than at the gallery as it is not so easily protected from wind and vandals.
Don Jimmy's Great-grandchildren decorated his and Dona Lupe's graves. She is laid to rest in front of him. When I returned to clean up, I found a
bottle of perfume on her grave and a jar of chili's sitting on my Dad's tumba. I expect that my step-brother visited after we were there.
MY Dad loved to smoke, in the end, it was the chemical fire he always sent down to his lungs that got him. As, such, I could not resesit adding the
cig. to the jack-o-lantern candle holder.
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Sallysouth
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Sara, for sure, your dear ol Dad loves you and gets a kick out of your celebrations of his life here.!What a great daughter.Doubt that anything even
remote will be like that for me in the end  Yeah just burn er and dump her in the
ocean somewhere...)
Happiness is just a Baja memory away...
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Sallysouth
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Sara, Could you take a video of your gallery, pan it and post it?I would LOVE to see all of the art!Just a thought. hugs
Happiness is just a Baja memory away...
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Paulina
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Thank you for sharing all of your photos. I love them all, specially the smoking Jack -o - lantern. I'm sure Don Jimmy got a kick out of it too!
What a wonderful celebration.
P>*)))>{
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Eli
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Sally, I will try to at least post a series of pictures of the gallery soon. It is good practice for me to remember how to do the picture posting, I
have been wanting to share my photos with Nomads for years. I just have trouble focusing sometimes on directions, so it took a special day to put my
mind to it and wha-la, I did it.
I know how much your girls love you, you will not be forgotten all that quickly Sally, I bet they will celebrate you life for years after you are
gone, one does not need a grave site to be remembered.
I personally would love to be thrown naked with a rock around me far out into the sea and let the critters on the bottom have a feast. I doubt this
will happen, cremation is so much easier for everyone to deal with. Although, I do believe in a little of what goes around comes around, I sure have
been enjoying what the sea provides for me to eat for many years now.
Jan, thanks for the Love it is reciprocated.
Paulina, glad you enjoyed, I will continue with the alter up in the gallery for a week or two more, people still are stopping by and giving me the
chance to bring Dad back for a conversation there. I always keep a little shrine for him in the corner of the gallery, it keeps him alive for me, and
gives me a chance to share who he was with new folks to the area who did not know him. I want to keep him around as long as I can, you know.
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