https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs Made with charisma en-us 2021-09-24 16:26:22 UTC 2025-12-01 16:58:57 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324332262 The awful grandmother says it all in Spanish, which I understand when I'm paying attention.]]> 2022-10-03 18:11:49 UTC https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324332262 https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324336640 "What?" I say, though it's neither proper nor polite.]]> 2022-10-03 18:14:19 UTC https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324336640 https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324339021 "¿Quieres chicle?" the lady asks in a spanish way too big for her mouth.]]> 2022-10-03 18:15:44 UTC https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324339021 https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324341170  La Virgin de Guadalupe on the main altar because she's a big miracle, the crooked crucifix on a side altar because that's a little miracle.

]]> 2022-10-03 18:16:54 UTC https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324341170 https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324342303 There are those walking to church on their knees. Some with fat rags tied around their legs and others with pillows, one to kneel on, and one to flop ahead.]]> 2022-10-03 18:17:33 UTC https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324342303 https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324343298
"Por favor," says the lady. "¿Un foto?" pointing to her camera.
"Sí."

]]> 2022-10-03 18:18:11 UTC https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324343298 https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324344933 who only a few hours before was breakfasting on brain and goat tacos ]]> 2022-10-03 18:18:57 UTC https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324344933 https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324346959 the awful grandmother hears as "¿Güat?" ]]> 2022-10-03 18:20:10 UTC https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324346959 https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324347472  "I'm a B-Fifty-two bomber, you're a German," and shoots me with an invisible machine gun.]]> 2022-10-03 18:20:30 UTC https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324347472 https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324347966  la ofrenda box before the altar to La Divina Providencia. Lighting votive candles and genuflecting. Blessing herself and kissing her thumb.]]> 2022-10-03 18:20:48 UTC https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324347966 https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324349153 "who only a few hours before was breakfasting on brain and goat tacos "]]> 2022-10-03 18:21:32 UTC https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324349153 https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324349774 We cannot spend our allowance on fried cookies]]> 2022-10-03 18:21:56 UTC https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324349774 https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324349870 "What?" I say, though it's neither proper nor polite."]]> 2022-10-03 18:21:59 UTC https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324349870 https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324350213
 I'd rather play flying feather dancers, but if I tell my brother this, he might not play with me at all.

]]> 2022-10-03 18:22:12 UTC https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324350213 https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324351115 "There are those walking to church on their knees. Some with fat rags tied around their legs and others with pillows, one to kneel on, and one to flop ahead."]]> 2022-10-03 18:22:43 UTC https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324351115 https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324352147 "I'm a B-Fifty-two bomber, you're a German," and shoots me with an invisible machine gun. I'd rather play flying feather dancers]]> 2022-10-03 18:23:13 UTC https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324352147 https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324353182 my little brother is imagining he's a flying feather dancer, like the ones we saw swinging high up from a pole on the Virgin's birthday. ]]> 2022-10-03 18:23:48 UTC https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324353182 https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324353459 "Por favor," says the lady. "¿Un foto?" pointing to her camera.

]]> 2022-10-03 18:23:58 UTC https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324353459 https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324354053 dropping pesos into la ofrenda box before the altar to La Divina Providencia. Lighting votive candles and genuflecting. Blessing herself and kissing her thumb. Running a crystal rosary between her fingers.]]> 2022-10-03 18:24:19 UTC https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324354053 https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324354059 La Virgen de Guadalupe is waiting inside behind a plate of thick glass.]]> 2022-10-03 18:24:20 UTC https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324354059 https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324354060 those clear cone-shaped suckers that make everything look like a rainbow when you look through them

]]> 2022-10-03 18:24:20 UTC https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324354060 https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324354431 We're waiting for the awful grandmother who is inside dropping pesos into la ofrenda box before the altar to La Divina Providencia. ]]> 2022-10-03 18:24:34 UTC https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324354431 https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324355618 I leave Keeks running around in circles - "I'm the Lone Ranger, you're Tonto."]]> 2022-10-03 18:25:18 UTC https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324355618 https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324355789 who only a few hours before was breakfasting on brain and goat tacos ]]> 2022-10-03 18:25:23 UTC https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324355789 https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324357421
"I'm a B-Fifty-two bomber, you're a German," and shoots me with an invisible machine gun. I'd rather play flying feather dancers, but if I tell my brother this, he might not play with me at all.

]]> 2022-10-03 18:26:25 UTC https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324357421 https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324357589 There are those walking to church on their knees. Some with fat rags tied around their legs and others with pillows, one to kneel on, and one to flop ahead. There are women with black shawls crossing and uncrossing themselves.]]> 2022-10-03 18:26:32 UTC https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324357589 https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324358757 For Auntie Light-skin, who only a few hours before was breakfasting on brain and goat tacos after dancing all night in the pink zone.

]]> 2022-10-03 18:27:16 UTC https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324358757 https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324362097 There are those walking to church on their knees. Some with fat rags tied around their legs and others with pillows, one to kneel on, and one to flop ahead.

]]> 2022-10-03 18:28:35 UTC https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324362097 https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324362538 "Girl. We can't play with a girl." Girl. It's my brothers' favorite insult now instead of "sissy." "You girl," they'll yell at each other. "You throw the ball like a girl."]]> 2022-10-03 18:28:52 UTC https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324362538 https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324364476 There's also a gold crucifix bent crooked as a mesquite tree when someone once threw a bomb...the crooked crucifix on a side altar because that's a little miracle.]]> 2022-10-03 18:29:51 UTC https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324364476 https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324365564 Lighting votive candles and genuflecting. Blessing herself and kissing her thumb. Running a crystal rosary between her fingers. Mumbling, mumbling, mumbling.

]]> 2022-10-03 18:30:33 UTC https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324365564 https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324367161 Keeks swoops past again, this time yelling, "I'm Flash Gordon. You're Ming the Merciless and the 🤬."]]> 2022-10-03 18:31:35 UTC https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324367161 https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324369331 I leave Keeks running around in circles - "I'm the Lone Ranger, you're Tonto." ]]> 2022-10-03 18:32:01 UTC https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324369331 https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324370039 For the grandfather who hasn't believed in anything since the first PRI elections.]]> 2022-10-03 18:32:27 UTC https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324370039 https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324370860 "¿Quieres chicle?" the lady asks in a spanish way too big for her mouth"]]> 2022-10-03 18:32:48 UTC https://padlet.com/avdistrict/h7kksrgty0comnfs/wish/2324370860