El Día de los Muertos
Yesterday, November 2nd, we celebrated the Day of the Dead in San Francisco with the annual procession in the Mission. We dressed in our dead best with skeleton faces as is the tradition. Maya wore her special dead wedding dress that contains all the names of her dead and we wrote our hamsters names on the dress to honor their passing. 
Our altar at home was covered with sugar skulls, pictures of our dead, their favorite foods, and candles to welcome and honor the spirits on this day.
We arrived early at the procession to see the dancers and hear the invocation by our friend, Francisco Alarcón before beginning the procession which ended at Garfield Park. Zai handed out tiny drawings she had made to passers-by and also placed several on the beautiful altars in the park. We honored Continue reading »
Filed under From the Life | Tags: altar, day of the dead, el dia de los muertos, Fall, holiday, honoring the dead | Comment (0)Our Neighborhood Library Reopens
After a 20 month closure, our neighborhood library named after Harvey Milk finally reopened on Saturday, October 24, 2009 here in San Francisco where we live. We’re so excited to see the wonderful amenities they’ve added, like a gas fireplace, Wi-Fi, a dedicated children’s area, and more. Don’t be surprised if many of our blog posts come while we sit in this beautiful place.
We attended the opening ceremony on Saturday where the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence did a fabulous blessing followed by lion dancers leading us into our amazing new library! And of course we looked, and some of Maya’s books are available there to check-out – maybe she’ll have to have a children’s story time? Here are some pictures from the opening. Do you have a favorite library in your area?
Our Introduction
Hi! We’re Maya and Matthew Smith-Gonzalez and we’re the visionaries behind Reflection Press. While we could say all the stuff about how many books Maya has illustrated or the awards she’s won, or who Matthew is and what he does, we’ll save that for the About Us page on our website and get to that with our second phase website launch. For this post we’ll just stick to some fun facts.
