Oaxaca-The Year After: Procesion de Silencio

The here and now... and what and why

Complacency is a trap. At least that’s what I was thinking when I up and left the comfort of a Yankee prep school gig, where I taught music, amongst other things, for 28 years. There was also that life long career as a composer, musician and artist.

First, it was a year in St. Thomas, USVI, working as a reporter and shooting photography and then, a year in San Agustin Etla, Oaxaca, Mexico.
Time passed.
More time passed and a year back in the Athens of America followed by a hasty return to Oaxaca where it is all happening.
A couple of years in San Sebastian Etla and now, just down the road in San Pablo Etla. Life is good.

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Saturday, April 20, 2019

Procesion de Silencio

The Procesion de Silencio is always such a beautiful visual experience, but there is much more to this annual Good Friday celebration. It is that rare somber event that is quite thought provoking and moving as hundreds of participants and thousands of spectators share a long moment of silence.

Led by the lone sound of a drum, slowly beating once every ten seconds, the procession lasts over thirty minutes to pass any one point ans the whole route is several kms long.