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especially when travelling, is get- ting a heavy rock home. Muvezi Gallery overcomes that difficulty for you by shipping for free any- where in the world.
The pieces are priced accord- ing to the kind of stone, the detail of the carving, and how renowned the artist is. The works start at $250 and go up to $30,000 U.S. The Muvezi organization spon- sors over 200 artists and has 3000 pieces available. These stone carvers use one stone, and hand tools; no electric tools. They let the stone guide the artist to deter- mine the piece.
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Muvezi has only three galler- ies: One in the San Jose, one in Quebec City, Canada, and a new one which has just opened in San Lucas behind Tanga Tanga on Marina Boulevard in San Lucas. Visit one of their galleries or their website.
www.muvezi.com or contact Anahi Talbot Wright at 624 105 2792.
Then in the end, there is al- ways the satisfying step back. The murmur of accomplish- ment, looking up and down the street, hoping people will kindly forgive me for some burnt out bulbs, sagging wires, and other imperfections. O.K., Christmas is the sea- son of light. I can go with that.
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with a perpetual “For sale or Rent” banner across the top. Some people go in and out oc- cupying one of the floors, liv- ing quiet, anonymous lives. But come December there are lights curved from post to post like skipping ropes, signs of the human drive for creation. They actually look pretty nice. For secular simplicity; re- ligion is complicated, but Christmas lights are not. This time of year, they are a shared ritual. Not entirely secular, as they do arrive at the time of Jesus’s birthday, but in tune with the spirit of the holiday. My Mexican, Italian and
American or Jewish neighbors all come home to their brightly lit casa. The ritual is in the hang- ing.
It’s not such a pain here but last year I was still in Canada at this time. On a cold week- end afternoon, every neighbor, even the ones who never come out, appeared with their boxes
of lights. A man down the street who has grown older, watched his son-in-law do the stringing for him as he sat in his wheelchair. That picture brought back memories of my kids laughing at me as I swore at the tangled mass of lights trying to make our display look not pathetic
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