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return false;" title="see a map">Map</a> + </div> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post-date" datetime="2019-02-04T21:51:03" itemprop="datePublished">February <span>4, 2019</span></time> + <span class="hide" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">by <a class="p-author h-card" href="/about"><span itemprop="name">Scott Gilbertson</span></a></span> + </div> + </header> + <div id="article" class="e-content entry-content post--body post--body--single" itemprop="articleBody"> + <p>Someone once quipped that cultures only need a word for “religion” when they no longer have one. Aside from our brief encounters with indigenous tribes, no other people I’ve lived among have less need for the word religion than Mexicans. Here there is life, and it is always a celebration. </p> +<p>It feels the opposite of where we come from. You want to bring it back with you when you leave, but I don’t think that’s possible. All you ever get to take with you are memories.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-03-01_200252_around-sma.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-03-01_200252_around-sma_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-03-01_200252_around-sma_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-03-01_200252_around-sma_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-03-01_200252_around-sma_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-03-01_200252_around-sma_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-03-01_200252_around-sma_picwide.jpg" alt="Church at twilight, San miguel de Allende photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-03-01_200252_around-sma.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Halfway between winter solstice and spring equinox lies a day that has long been celebrated in various forms as the “return of the light”. Around the British Isles it’s known as Imbolic. Farther south it fell close enough to forty days after Christmas that it merged with existing pagan traditions and become Candlemas.</p> +<p>Candelaria, as it’s called around here, is not celebrated in the States anymore, but in San Miguel it’s going strong. Like most things here it’s half Catholic, half indigenous and falls such that it marks roughly the beginning of spring. To celebrate there’s an indigenous ceremony at the park, with a blessing of the seeds to future harvests, and a huge plant sale.</p> +<p>The park is transformed into an outdoor arboretum. Plant vendors line the walkways and little kids push wagon loads of plants through the park to waiting cars on the street. And of course there’s food. Any time three or more people gather in Mexico, someone materializes bearing food. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-01-31_151336_candelaria.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-01-31_151336_candelaria_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-01-31_151336_candelaria_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-01-31_151336_candelaria_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-01-31_151336_candelaria_picwide-med.jpg" alt="candelaria, san miguel de allende, mexico photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-01-31_151336_candelaria.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-01-31_151940_candelaria.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-01-31_151940_candelaria_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-01-31_151940_candelaria_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-01-31_151940_candelaria_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-01-31_151940_candelaria_picwide-med.jpg" alt="candelaria, san miguel de allende, mexico photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-01-31_151940_candelaria.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-01-31_153224_candelaria.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-01-31_153224_candelaria_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-01-31_153224_candelaria_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-01-31_153224_candelaria_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-01-31_153224_candelaria_picwide-med.jpg" alt="girls on swings, parque juarez, san miguel de allende, mexico photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-01-31_153224_candelaria.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>We’re not great with plants. We took the kids to a nursery to get some plants for the pots we gave them for Christmas and by Candlelaria they were already dead. We bought a few more at the plant sale, but um, cough, one of those is already mostly dead as I write this. Not sure what’s wrong with us, perhaps we’re just not plant people. Animals seem drawn to us though, so at least there’s that.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-02-04_082228_umaran-courtyard.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-02-04_082228_umaran-courtyard_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-02-04_082228_umaran-courtyard_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-02-04_082228_umaran-courtyard_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-02-04_082228_umaran-courtyard_picwide-med.jpg" alt="portrait of girl with butterfly on her head. photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-02-04_082228_umaran-courtyard.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-01-31_143731_umaran-courtyard.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-01-31_143731_umaran-courtyard_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-01-31_143731_umaran-courtyard_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-01-31_143731_umaran-courtyard_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-01-31_143731_umaran-courtyard_picwide-med.jpg" alt="portrait of boy photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-01-31_143731_umaran-courtyard.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-01-31_143638_umaran-courtyard.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-01-31_143638_umaran-courtyard_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-01-31_143638_umaran-courtyard_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-01-31_143638_umaran-courtyard_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-01-31_143638_umaran-courtyard_picwide-med.jpg" alt="kids playing courtyard of house, san miguel de allende, mexico photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-01-31_143638_umaran-courtyard.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-01-25_164127_umaran-courtyard.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-01-25_164127_umaran-courtyard_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-01-25_164127_umaran-courtyard_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-01-25_164127_umaran-courtyard_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-01-25_164127_umaran-courtyard_picwide-med.jpg" alt="kids playing courtyard of house, san miguel de allende, mexico photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-01-25_164127_umaran-courtyard.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="The free dancing portion of our obstacle courses is where I always get left behind."> + </a> +<figcaption>The free dancing portion of our obstacle courses is where I always get left behind.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>It is warming up here. Perhaps our plants will do better going forward. I doubt it though. All you ever get to take is your memory. Like this memory, which has an explanation, but which I like better without it.</p> +<div class="picfull"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/IMG_142415459.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 750px) 100vw, (min-width: 751) 750px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/IMG_142415459_pictall-sm.jpg Nonew, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/IMG_142415459_pictall-med.jpg Nonew, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/IMG_142415459_pictall.jpg Nonew, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/IMG_142415459_picfull-sm.jpg 750w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/IMG_142415459_picfull.jpg 1500w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/IMG_142415459_pictall-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/IMG_142415459_pictall.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/IMG_142415459_picfull-sm.jpg" alt="None photographed by luxagraf" 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Enjoyed this post and appreciated learning about Candlemas/ Candlearia. There is a poem by Denise Levertov titled Candlemas that I really like, but I have never really known what exactly Candlemas was, so thanks for the information.</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-3946" class="comment"> + <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="d64f4854965b2b1c3ecafee4b2a66fac"> + <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/d64f4854965b2b1c3ecafee4b2a66fac.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for Scott" /> + </noscript> + <div class="comment--head"> + <span class="who"><b><a href="https://luxagraf.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Scott</a></b></span> + <span class="when">March 22, 2019 at 4:26 p.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>Gwen-</p> +<p>Yeah it’s not big in the north, I’d heard of it, but never really paid any attention. And I’d never even heard of Kings day, which is a huge deal here. 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Aside from our brief encounters with indigenous tribes, no other people I've lived among have less need for the word religion than Mexicans. Here there is life, and it is always a celebration.
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+It feels the opposite of where we come from. You want to bring it back with you when you leave, but I don't think that's possible. All you ever get to take with you are memories.
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+<img src="images/2019/2019-03-01_200252_around-sma.jpg" id="image-1869" class="picwide" />
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+Halfway between winter solstice and spring equinox lies a day that has long been celebrated in various forms as the "return of the light". Around the British Isles it's known as Imbolic. Farther south it fell close enough to forty days after Christmas that it merged with existing pagan traditions and become Candlemas.
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+Candelaria, as it's called around here, is not celebrated in the States anymore, but in San Miguel it's going strong. Like most things here it's half Catholic, half indigenous and falls such that it marks roughly the beginning of spring. To celebrate there's an indigenous ceremony at the park, with a blessing of the seeds to future harvests, and a huge plant sale.
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+The park is transformed into an outdoor arboretum. Plant vendors line the walkways and little kids push wagon loads of plants through the park to waiting cars on the street. And of course there's food. Any time three or more people gather in Mexico, someone materializes bearing food.
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+<img src="images/2019/2019-01-31_151336_candelaria.jpg" id="image-1871" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2019/2019-01-31_151940_candelaria.jpg" id="image-1872" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2019/2019-01-31_153224_candelaria.jpg" id="image-1873" class="picwide" />
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+We're not great with plants. We took the kids to a nursery to get some plants for the pots we gave them for Christmas and by Candlelaria they were already dead. We bought a few more at the plant sale, but um, cough, one of those is already mostly dead as I write this. Not sure what's wrong with us, perhaps we're just not plant people. Animals seem drawn to us though, so at least there's that.
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+<img src="images/2019/2019-02-04_082228_umaran-courtyard.jpg" id="image-1877" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2019/2019-01-31_143731_umaran-courtyard.jpg" id="image-1876" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2019/2019-01-31_143638_umaran-courtyard.jpg" id="image-1875" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2019/2019-01-25_164127_umaran-courtyard.jpg" id="image-1874" class="picwide caption" />
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+It is warming up here. Perhaps our plants will do better going forward. I doubt it though. All you ever get to take is your memory. Like this memory, which has an explanation, but which I like better without it.
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+<img src="images/2019/IMG_142415459.jpg" id="image-1878" class="picfull" /> |