Oscar2
Dec 30, 2009, 4:14 PM
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Underneath an umbrella on a day made for the gods, I sat there casually sipping something cool, with others enjoying the same, as well. The story I heard of the senoritas coquettishly smiling their wares at plausible suitor’s below their bastioned rod-ironed balcony, restricting the play of flesh, was like looking through a window glazed with the play of man set in a background where thousands of years have gone before.
It was a quaint little park with lofty trees, green grass and walkways interleaving around a fountain and park benches. You got it Tashby, the city christened it as, Parke de la Rosas. This ornate centuries old structure was very well preserved reflecting the pride Morelia held for its ancient treasures.
When ones is in haste, one would hardly notice the fine intricacies of such trifles but when one slows down enough, as they say, to smell the roses, things happen. Taking a deep breath to clear the mind of clutter, at times, allows the surroundings to seep in and take on a meaning perhaps well needed. I was retired; I’d earned the right to inhale deeply the new found freedom I’ve yearned for after working most of my life in some way serving others. It’s my time, my place, right here and now, to relish, own it, and to savor this very moment and beyond..….
This wonderful buildings housing the youthful ladies of the past has “now” become “El Conservatorio de Musica de las Rosas.” The days which reseeded into the past, one time or another, was hosted by Catholic nuns. It was a nunnery or probably best known as a convent. As a very small child, I remember a nun by the name of Sister Papetua. Of whom I shall never forget. As a child I took on a big crush on her even though she would hit me on the palm of my hands with a ruler and pull my hair till I yelped. Yes, this was catholic school in it’s perennial role of which my beautiful Sister Papetua, I left behind at a very young age. Nuns and their lineage, to me, have a very strong and lingering image in days of youth gone by but still very much alive in the misty waves of the past…..
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