Tamale Time

Among the holiday traditions in New Mexico are the consumption of tamales, the setting of fires, and late-night visits to the graves of the ancestors (where, usually, fires get set).

We haven’t set any fires ourselves, but we did pay an after-dinner visit to a local graveyard to enjoy the peaceful night and the luminaria displays.   The dead seemed not to mind our presence, even though our ancestors are cached elsewhere.

We hope you practice your solstice traditions in joy and peace, and that your dead do not walk.

(Though if your traditions do not involve tamales and setting fire to things, I feel a little bit sorry for you.)