UPSIDE DOWN IN PARADISE
We usually walk from the Plaza down the main street to our destination - our favorite taqueria.
The condition of the streets and businesses along the way suggest paradoxes of hope and prosperity, and life as usual amidst disrepair and neglect. Buildings with accumulations of home improvements, fresh paint, garden flowers, and also abandoned projects.
Looking around at the buildings can be a little reckless when you should be looking at the pavement which will just drop off to dirt or have a ditch from missing bricks.
But the signs of people are inspiring. There are shoe stores with every size of Sunday church shoes for the whole family. Clubs with older men and the soccer game on loud. And a brightly lit appliance store with music blasting as if that will attract passersby to stop for a new washing machine.