(Or words to that effect, since I don’t speak Mandarin…) The actual translation is more or less “Best wishes and Congratulations. Have a prosperous and good year.” So we’ll go with that. I changed direction last week and took cameras to the Lunar New Year Festival at Viet Hoa Center …
It’s taken a wee bit longer to get to this than I’d planned. Life does that. I talked earlier about Las Pastorelas; now I’d like to go one step back from that and present a few things from Las Posadas. The reenactment of Las Posadas (Posada is Spanish for “inn” …
A little over a year ago, early in December of 2014, I read on a website that Mission Espiritu Santo in Goliad was hosting a Pastorela, a Shepherds’ Play, for Christmas, and knew that was my next trip. I’d learned about Pastorelas some time in the Long Ago, but never …
Fourth of January last I saw a Facebook post from This Guy I Know, saying that Pancho Claus was going to spend the Sixth of January with some of his homies and a few Kingly types hitting several of the Mambo’s restaurants in the area to celebrate the day with …