Story-sharing and discussion at Questa Women's Tea, November 16, 2019: Loveida Cisneros - Woodcutting and picnic lunch; Monica Ortega – they had a way of sharing lessons without saying it directly; Judy Rutledge – details of stories important to share with our youth; Esther Garcia – Winter Bus Rides with Felix Quintana; Martha Rael Nimon – Memories of Esther’s dad driving the bus; Maria Gonzales – Memories of her Grandmother
Discussion and story sharing at Women's Tea at La Sala in Questa on November 16, 2019. Maria Gonzales, Martha Rael Nimon, Irma Cisneros and Esther Garcia share and discuss on a variety of topics including personal life experiences, spirituality and religion, ancestors (particularly female ancestors), Questa history and more.
Connie Long's experience at the Questa North Star Texaco in Questa in 1973 or 74, in which Norbert Ortega kindly told her to pay him when she was next passing through the village, when she was nearly out of gas, stopped and then realized she had no money. Comment at the end is from Monica Ortega.
Story Sharing from Gaea McGahee about her mother's pottery chickens (that Gaea was given), which had come from Guatemala, purchased by her mother (Dava Davy) when she was a 21 year old anthropology student in that country. The chickens we special objects to her mother and she held on to them even as they sometimes got damaged by her growing five children because all the people she had visited, the makers of the chicken pots, had died as a result of a volcanic eruption. These objects had become somewhat sacred to Dava, imbued with this memory.
