Halloween Twenty First
The highlight was actually finally watching "Coco," which I had been putting off for months and months for fear of becoming a ugly crying mess. I do that on occasion and I had heard time and time before that this movie was a tear jerker. And guess what? I cried just a little bit. It was such a fun movie! So colorful and also the source of my new favorite thing to sing to my kids when they make me "un poquititito loco," which is pretty much every day.
It left me wondering, why do abuelitas always look so so angry in pictures? And I have pictures of abuelitas from multiple generations to back this up! (Thanks to my ancestry project a few years back.) It is just because a woman's job is never easy or ever done? Do photographers just know that abuelitas need to look un poco mala in pictures? Is this just the status quo of abuelita pictures and I just have to wait a few decades to gain that stern look? So many questions! I wish I could go back and ask what some of these women were thinking as their picture was being taken. Or maybe when I finally find that one picture someone takes of my Ama, I can ask what was the source of such a look? Aye, mom, don't worry, you haven't taken a picture like this as of yet! (Yeah, there's a chance she's reading!) And who's going to point out my angry abuelita look when I get there? Does this cultural phenomena end with me? Or do I just do my best to keep it going? I have to go back and look through my pictures now and make a little collage of angry abuelitas!
Does anyone else know what I'm talking about here? #AngryAbuelitas
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