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Re: The Design in Our Coffee This Morning

Posted by cruz on March 24, 2013, 5:25 pm, in reply to "Re: The Design in Our Coffee This Morning"
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Nice, but I'll have to see it to believe it --and then I wouldn't be able to drink it because it so beautiful. Oh, well, Cafe Risa here I come.

Changing the subject, literally, Daniel. I have a suggestion and challenge for your wonderful photos. Would you please take a picture of Don Concho, aged 94. I believe he is the oldest survivor of the local ejidatarios. In the leadership some time after this town was founded, he was jailed by a nasty hotel owner (of the deserted, broken-down white monster mid-way to Boca) for at least a couple of years. This happened because, Tenacatita style, the owner wanted to take over the area surrounding the hotel. He was thwarted by the Ejido Board, but with money and influence, the owner was able to have the entire Board arrested.

To add to Don Concho's tragedy, he lost his wife and child. Due to a difficult labor and without her husband to get her to Manzanillo, she and her unborn child died. Back then there were no roads to anywhere, only difficult paths to walk or ride on.*

Don Concho remains lucid and sweeps the front of the home he shares with his grandson and family. I think he would make a lovely, dignified subject and study for your eye and camera. Let me know if the challenge is on. Cruz

*PS: This account may not be perfect but it is close

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